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[Lukewarm]

How do I keep getting irradiated?
I get that it's in Clean Water and some food (Another irritation to keep track of), but sometimes it happens while I'm out on the town, I'll @ and just see that I'm irradiated. This isn't after getting hit with a Huge Boomer either.

[Robsoie]

Is random NPC spawning completely broken in recent versions ?

With the default setting when i enabled random NPC i saw 0 random NPC in all my characters run crossing whole cities, the only one i saw are if i turn static NPC on (so i see the guy at the shelter or in the mall starts) 

Decided to turn the spawn rate setting from its default 0.1 to 15.0 ! and still absolutely no random NPC is spawned anywhere i am running into, moved through a whole city and in the wilderness up to the next city in the map, 0 random NPC

Of course observation dones with random npc turned on, and no NPC corpse if i was just unlucky and they were getting killed just before i could see them.

After looking around, i saw this on the cdda discourse board , it's just that bad

I enabled the debug menu also i looked into the code. I have 13 NPCs on the map, 2 followers, 8 npcs on the farm i helping to turn into a survivor camp and 3 bandits far away. Because the bandits placed to the same place i’m think they are static NPCs too.

In every hour random NPCs has a percentage chance to spawn which is:
NPC_spawn_rate*(0.8 raised to the power of the actual_number_of_NPCs)

So because i have the default spawn rate and 13 NPCs, the chance for a new npc is:
0.1*(0.8 raised to the power of 13)=0.005%

Even with the maximum spawn rate (100) there would be only 5% chance, with 24 NPCs only 0.5% and with 44 NPCs only 0.005%.

:/

edit : set it to the max ( 100 instead of 0.1) and i managed to meet 2 random NPC while exploring a city ...

[Rince Wind]

How do I keep getting irradiated?
I get that it's in Clean Water and some food (Another irritation to keep track of), but sometimes it happens while I'm out on the town, I'll @ and just see that I'm irradiated. This isn't after getting hit with a Huge Boomer either.

You don't happen to carry a damaged atomic lamp or some other damaged atomic thingy with you, do you?
I had this once, and it took me a long time and a lot of irradiation to find the problem.

[Lukewarm]

No, most of the time I've got clothes and a Crude Sword.
I learned yesterday that the Evening Gown that the Awakened start begins with adds a whopping 7 torso encumberance, which may explain why I've been starting so many games recently, aside from the increased spawn rates. I assumed it was like an undershirt, due to my lack of experience with evening gowns.

[TheBronzePickle]

...The 'Awakened' scenario is where your character just gets out of bed, right?

Do you have on an evening gown, or a nightgown? Because a nightgown is the thing you're probably supposed to be wearing, a simple, light cloth dress you can just slip on.
An evening gown is a formal dress.

[Lukewarm]

It's an evening gown. They also start in slippers.

[ZebioLizard2]

Certainly wants to feel fancy in their sleep then if that's the case.

[Culise]

Maybe they just went on an all-night ballroom bender the night before, which is also why they didn't notice the whole apocalypse thing.

[Robsoie]

Thanks to setting the npc encounter rate to 100 as recommended to have a 5% chance of finding any instead of the 0.005% that the default setting allows i finally found a random one "Steven Peterson" with my new character.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And it was good because i had no decent weaponry up to that point.
Decided to go make a trip in town and we encountered after a long while a 2nd random NPC , but this one was not really nice and only wanted to steal all my stuff.
A fight followed and my character was badly injured and only managed to stay alive thanks to "Steven Peterson" intervention at some point.

We found then a nice truck that surprisingly was actually working.
Oh joy , time for the "we stop for nothing" that made vehicle so fun in zombies infested towns in the past.

Obviously i had to be cautious with those street filled with objects


So taking some time out of the street, "we stop for nothing" indeed


Not even tough zombies


But i guess we stop for stupid driving




Things didn't went that well after that, i found some nice shotgun that helped take care of some nasty amoebic mold and several undead things, i unfortunately failed to check what my character was seeing, the usual mistake.
And i should have checked, because there was a damned turret right in the middle of the street, so advancing joyously toward it (as it was out of my screen), when i came in range the damn thing didn't miss any shots.

After passing away, the game told me the fate of brave "Steven Peterson"

[duckman]

Thanks to setting the npc encounter rate to 100 as recommended to have a 5% chance of finding any instead of the 0.005% that the default setting allows i finally found a random one "Steven Peterson" with my new character.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And it was good because i had no decent weaponry up to that point.
Decided to go make a trip in town and we encountered after a long while a 2nd random NPC , but this one was not really nice and only wanted to steal all my stuff.
A fight followed and my character was badly injured and only managed to stay alive thanks to "Steven Peterson" intervention at some point.

We found then a nice truck that surprisingly was actually working.
Oh joy , time for the "we stop for nothing" that made vehicle so fun in zombies infested towns in the past.

Obviously i had to be cautious with those street filled with objects


So taking some time out of the street, "we stop for nothing" indeed


Not even tough zombies


But i guess we stop for stupid driving




Things didn't went that well after that, i found some nice shotgun that helped take care of some nasty amoebic mold and several undead things, i unfortunately failed to check what my character was seeing, the usual mistake.
And i should have checked, because there was a damned turret right in the middle of the street, so advancing joyously toward it (as it was out of my screen), when i came in range the damn thing didn't miss any shots.

After passing away, the game told me the fate of brave "Steven Peterson"

Be careful about picking fights with NPCs, I've seen level 14+ combat skills on some of them.

[AzyWng]

Has anyone managed to survive long enough to get any combat skill to 14?

[pisskop]

Back in the day?  Sure.

[King Zultan]

A character I made a long time ago had 55 mechanics skill, and that was back when there was a bug where you needed 50 mechanics skill to install a second engine.

[ollobrains]

that mechanics bug is ripe for fixing, and more work on npcs for anyone with the time as well

[IcyTea31]

After passing away, the game told me the fate of brave "Steven Peterson"

Shot in the head, yet still ultimately died of sepsis rather than brain damage? Ouch, sounds like a slow and painful death.