Faldon Forums - Hermes

Re: Hermes

dummy@example.com (Mumblee) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:08:06 +0000

Like I said, definitely had flaws as implemented. But I liked the concept.

Re: Hermes

dummy@example.com (pennywise) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:55:39 +0000

I was of the opinion that the addition of the market in current client made the player-owned NPCs useless. They were neat, but really nothing more than status symbols and, for the most part, the farms and NPCs didn't change hands very many times until the server files got leaked and people were being hacked.

Re: Hermes

dummy@example.com (Mumblee) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:30:19 +0000

Zer wrote:

Mumblee wrote:
This reminds me of how much I miss player owned NPCs (and farms). I thought that was one of the most innovative things about this game, but then Zer killed both of them.
The problem was that despite the limited supply of NPCs there was no automatic system pricing them. If the cost of holding up an NPC went up every day by a certain amount, and then went down when nobody controlled the NPC I suspect this could have worked.

Yeah, don't get me wrong, the system definitely had issues at the time. At one point I owned a near monopoly on them. Clearly something needed to be done. It just seemed like removing them all was taking the easy way out. A progressive pricing scheme like that is an interesting idea, though.

Re: Hermes

dummy@example.com (James) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:38:26 +0000

Mumblee wrote:

This reminds me of how much I miss player owned NPCs (and farms). I thought that was one of the most innovative things about this game, but then Zer killed both of them.

The problem was that despite the limited supply of NPCs there was no automatic system pricing them. If the cost of holding up an NPC went up every day by a certain amount, and then went down when nobody controlled the NPC I suspect this could have worked.

Re: Hermes

dummy@example.com (Mumblee) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:19:57 +0000

This reminds me of how much I miss player owned NPCs (and farms). I thought that was one of the most innovative things about this game, but then Zer killed both of them.

Re: Hermes

dummy@example.com (Mr Spy) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:42:33 +0000

Having NPC sell all resources necessary to raise skills is what partially made them worthless. Hermes is a player based vendor meaning he will only sells what players sell him + a little of his own if he's (almost) out of stock.

Re: Hermes

dummy@example.com (fortminor) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:47:11 +0000

Farmings already a useless skill who care?

Re: Hermes

dummy@example.com (Judy) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:24:04 +0000

if you could buy any amount you wanted to, how would farming be a useful skill.. that would completely ruin the purpose of the skill, seeing its pretty much the only usefull stuff u can create using farming..
perhaps sunshades for druids 2..

also iirc the npc has w.e the player sells to him + he regains some himself(not alot tho)

Hermes

dummy@example.com (fortminor) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:18:00 +0000

Okay, so for some reason the npc Hermes only carries a certain amount of sugar and other various cooking supplies that he sells. Idk if this is just a bug because of the server change or if it was done intentionally but I think it really needs to be fixed soon. It's retarded that you can't just buy as many supplies as you want.