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[FArgHalfnr]

AUGH. Flashback to learning about trichinosis. Nopenopenopenope.

Although the messages for a fungal infection is just as freaky to me.

>YOU PUKE MUSHROOM EVERYWHERE
>YOUR ARMS EXPLODE
>PAIN: 1120
It freaked me too when it first happened to me, especially since I had no idea why it was happening, or what it was supposed to be. A massive forested area just south of my house was being turned into a fungal wasteland. I was being shot by turrets so I had no choice but to hide in that mess. I made that character kill himself because he was a lost cause at this point.

[The13thRonin]

Are there working, non-moronic NPCs yet?

No.

So are the developers ever going to take time off adding random stuff and actually fix this massively broken feature? Its been like this for like two years now.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Most of the people adding random stuff are not the developers.

And there are too many things broken to say that one thing deserves the attention more than another. Right now I'd prefer them to stick to Z-levels. What use are NPCs anyway? I never played with them on. >_>

[forsaken1111]

Most of the people adding random stuff are not the developers.

And there are too many things broken to say that one thing deserves the attention more than another. Right now I'd prefer them to stick to Z-levels. What use are NPCs anyway? I never played with them on. >_>

Everyone believes that their favorite feature is top priority.

If you really want NPCs fixed ronin, the game is open source.

[Darkmere]

Are there working, non-moronic NPCs yet?

No.

So are the developers ever going to take time off adding random stuff and actually fix this massively broken feature? Its been like this for like two years now.

Nothing's really stopping you from having a go at it.

[scrdest]

Besides, NPCs ARE being worked on actively.

[BigD145]

Most of the people adding random stuff are not the developers.

And there are too many things broken to say that one thing deserves the attention more than another. Right now I'd prefer them to stick to Z-levels. What use are NPCs anyway? I never played with them on. >_>

There's an entire faction status/conflict/mission system that requires npc's be reasonably smart. You don't play with npc's because they are off by default and they're retarded.

[BigD145]

We already have survivor houses.

[FArgHalfnr]

You can find barricaded houses with a bunch of cot set up. There's also some which have tons of beds and reserves in a room, but that last one might be the work of a pre-apocalypse survivalist.

[Teneb]

Last time I played with the "Missed" start, I spawned in a house that hard boarded up windows and not a single item or piece of furniture. So I guess those are in the game, even if sometimes they are a bit... barren.

[FArgHalfnr]

I think those are abandoned houses. Did you see any part of the floor missing or a bunch of trash on the ground?

[n9103]

For my part, I don't play with NPCs because I enjoy the scenario of being the last human alive, focusing on the very essentials of survival in a totally hostile world. Walking down the street and seeing Billybob So-and-so stabbing zombies to death with a kitchen knife so he can get the last bottle of whiskey left in the bar... I can see the appeal for some, but for me, it ruins the atmosphere.

So you're not interested in reenacting Shaun of the Dead? Or even World War Z? For shame.

_{(The movie, not the book. Yes, yes, horribad and all that, but still illustrates a great way to play if the NPC system supported it.)}

[Teneb]

I think those are abandoned houses. Did you see any part of the floor missing or a bunch of trash on the ground?

No. It was completely clean.

[Mailo]

There are houses with boarded up windows which are survivor houses ... I'll spoiler them for those wanting to discover them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

They contain quite a few traps; beartraps under the windows, shotgun traps behind doors and land mines surrounding some juicy loot. Also guns, and even a garage ... which bugs out in my tileset, the floor takes the symbol of the neighboring tile.

[Sheb]

I found a boarded-up house with a ton of cot, some supplies and several survivor zombies.