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GM ThunderCat 
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 Topic: Update 21OCT10 - Caravans and Resource Gathering
Posted: 22 Oct 2010 at 00:37 |
Update:
NPC armies and animals return to the lands
With the departure of the Mammoths, the NPC have felt safe enough to return from their hiding and are now populated all over the map.
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lep
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 23:09 |
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They lurk inside quantum anomalies apparently.
This means they lurk everywhere at once, well up to 36 different places at a time anyhow, and that's enough!
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King EAM
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 23:02 |
OH scary 
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bow locks
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 22:49 |
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damn, sounds so cool with the mammoths.
Thanks for the hard work.
Hope the npc s will be seeded and reappear everywhere, etc..................
keep up the good work.
exciting times.
Bow
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G0DsDestroyer
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 22:40 |
 king eam wrote:
Wow! Havent heard of rampaging mamoths all the time I have been here. |
They're lurking and invisible! 
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King EAM
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 22:36 |
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Wow! Havent heard of rampaging mamoths all the time I have been here.
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GM Stormcrow
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 22:36 |
swanger wrote:
ok i have 6 caravans 3 days away hope it is fixed soon |
We don't, unfortunately, have a straightforward fix for the caravans now returning from great distances away. We will continue to work on it, but are unlikely to have any solution in place before tomorrow. Again, many apologies. SC
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swanger
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 22:32 |
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ok i have 6 caravans 3 days away hope it is fixed soon
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Jerec Cross
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 22:22 |
Mammoths and Quantum Anomalies can be a real pain!  Thanks for the update, good news indeed!
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GM Stormcrow
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Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 22:12 |
- Caravan (Resource Gathering) Mayhem
- We had a couple of related-but-separately-occuring issues this afternoon with resource gathering for caravans.
Firstly, there was a horrible accident involving rampaging Mammoths that
destroyed a few (well alright, some 2000 or so) caravans that were
harvesting resources this afternoon.
The Mammoths were captured by their handlers, lost caravans were
returned to all the players who had lost them, and resources that should
have been delivered were returned to each players' town.
Unfortunately there was then a second incident, this time involving
Extra-Dimensional Quantum Anomalies that made many harvestable resource
squares on the world map exist simultaneously in up-to 36 places at the
same time.
This Quantum Entanglement meant that many players saw their caravans
appear up to 36 times (apiece) on the Market Movement summary page, and
also meant that it was possible to accidentally "kick" another player
off a resource square even though they were on the other side of the
map.
Finally, this has meant that some caravans are now returning from a
location that was not the location that they travelled to initially, and
they may have gathered different resources from what you sent them out
to gather.
Apart from the "your caravans fell through a wormhole and are now on
their way back from somewhere else" issue, we believe the other issues
have been resolved, and players who actually lost caravans and goods have been reimbursed.
We apologise profusely for allowing both Mammoths and Quantum Anomalies onto the map.
- World Map harvestable NPC resource squares
- Only slightly tarnishing the story above with the vaguest whiff of
fabrication, there was an update today involving world map harvestable
NPC Resource squares.
As many players know, world map harvestable NPC resources only used to
exist in a smallish area at the center of the world, and moving far away
would mean you could no longer harvest these resources.
Resource piles also only used to refresh when a percentage of the "Global" Resource population was gathered by players.
Since we have allowed players to move their cities we have changed the old way of doing things, as follows:
- Resources now appear across the entire map, on every NPC square
- The rate at which these "refresh" is now on a Regional basis,
so once a chunk of the resources in (eg) the Middle Kingdom have been
gathered by players, additional resources will be reseeded in the Middle Kingdom.
Each region therefore acts independently of one another in terms of when they refresh.
NPC military units will be returned to the map very soon, please bear with us as we work this through.
- *edit*
- NPC armies and animals return to the lands
- With the departure of the Mammoths, the NPC have felt safe enough to return from their hiding and are now populated all over the map.
Edited by GM ThunderCat - 22 Oct 2010 at 00:37
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