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Development News / Asking NPCs to find quest related persons in villages
« on: April 28, 2018, 05:55:11 PM »
You know, despite of my lazy posting frequency we are active behind the scenes and adjustments for a next update are on their way.
Lately I've been sorting out mostly the quest related annoyances and confusions arising from locating certain villagers, and their names.
These are future additions not yet functional in current version 3.50 (stable).
Lately I've been sorting out mostly the quest related annoyances and confusions arising from locating certain villagers, and their names.
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- added: ask NPCs to find quest related persons in villages
You can now ask villagers if certain quest related persons are around. This is done by automatically appearing
chat options within the common greet dialog. For example:
"Is Sampsa around?" or "Where can I find Tornia?"
All the quest related persons, including the original quest giver, are covered within these chat options if you
are aware of them.
There are some exceptions though; NPCs who are involved in quests themselves can't be asked for others
whereabouts, but there are always enough common villages around to assist you.
When it comes to finding quest related persons in other villages the chat options become available only when
you are in the right village where the person can be actually found. This can be considered slightly gamey in
our standards, but it is more helpful that way.
- adjusted: no more multiple villagers with same names
Possiblity of two NPCs having the same name within a single village has been removed. In seriously crowded
clustered villages it is theoretically possible that villagers might run out of unique names, but real chances for
that to happen are practically non-existent.
- added: dozens of new northern names
Due to aforementioned adjustment it was necessary to add lots and lots of new names for northern men and women.
- improved: NPC name randomization routines
NPC culture has more distinguishable influence to their given names. There's noticeable variation between
the eastern and western names, but especially the current wider range of northern names now appear unique
from rest of the world.
These are future additions not yet functional in current version 3.50 (stable).