Spawning Algorhitm...

[boomhaeur]

Just a thought. The spawning system right now seems a little flawed and limits the ability for a couple of characters to role play an isolated community.

I've got one character who stumbled across an isolated place and soon a second char joined him (both male). They've each been building their houses but all of a sudden it seems like we're getting daily newspawns.

I understand the concept of multiple people in a location attracting newspawns - but it seems like it happens a little too quickly. I've also had a char spawn in an odd location where there were two people for the briefest of moments.

Perhaps it would make sense to have the spawning system have a certain amount of time between when there are multiple people in a location and (Say 10 years or something) when the spawns start arriving.

[formerly known as hf]

I thought that spawning in busy places had been taken out for the English area, and it was just random?

[wulf]

I've got a character on the border of Spanish and German territories. He and his friend have been there for at least a couple of years farming pineapples to heal his friend's injuries and they've seen very few passers by and no new spawns at all, despite almost constant activity!

Wulf

[Cookie]

Thats because he's:

on the border of Spanish and German territories.

[ephiroll]

I thought that spawning in busy places had been taken out for the English area, and it was just random?

I wish it was alot more random if it is now, once again I have 3 chars on K-isle All spawned within an area of each other...

[west]

I agree. I haven't had a character spawn on Cantr/Quil/Blaman island for at least 20 cantr-years. They've all been on the K-isle or the KDS one.

[Nick]

I've got a character on the border of Spanish and German territories. He and his friend have been there for at least a couple of years farming pineapples to heal his friend's injuries and they've seen very few passers by and no new spawns at all, despite almost constant activity!

Wulf

Alternate language groups have spawn towns rather than people-centric spawning.

[Yo_Yo]

True. It's as bout as random as a sixshooter loaded with five bullets. Wanna play Russian Rullet?

[Okud]

Alternate language groups have spawn towns rather than people-centric spawning.

Not valid anymore for the German group - it has people centric spawning.

[SekoETC]

There should be a higher chance of getting spawned away from your previous characters. I used to have about half and half on Cantr island and KDS island but now I have only 3 out of 15 on KDS, 1 on the Swedish region, the rest on Cantr island, mostly on Quillanoi/Reniov regions. I've had 1 on K-island, not that I'd want to go there... So something should be changed.

[boomhaeur]

Yeah in terms of where your own chars end up I find I've got mine stumbling all over each other all the time. Trying to keep them seperate is almost a full time job.

[Crosshair]

Its working with me, i have a character in a very secluded area, haven't seen another person walking in, almost ever! and there are about five other people...

[Blackdeath]

I have about 9 chars on the same island. now that sucks. Djorf alone has had about 4 of my chars pass through it

[Jos Elkink]

I wish it was alot more random if it is now, once again I have 3 chars on K-isle All spawned within an area of each other...

Your assumption is wrong here ... The grouping of characters on one island is due to the randomness, not to a lack of it ... Just as a random system means there is a chance they'll all be separated, it means there is one they'll all be together ...

The solution is to make it less random by adding restrictions - i.e. have characters spawn a minimum distance from each other. Plans for this are in the works and I think Thomas is working on this ...