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Title: NPC that can talk with multiple persons at the time
Post by: firehand on April 29, 2011, 11:39:22 am
At the moment all NPCs are able to talk only with one person at the time. And it is okey, but there are some situations where this is a serious problem. Thus i would love to see a new type of NPC that can talk with multiple persons at the time. It would be great for events, when there's a lot of people in small place. They all could get to know what event is about from an NPC fairly quickly. It could also be used for other purposes :)
Title: Re: NPC that can talk with multiple persons at the time
Post by: Ganado on April 29, 2011, 03:55:09 pm
It used to be like this before August 2010 wipe. It was either 2 or 3 people that could talk to a merchant at the same time. I blame TLA/SDK engine - in TLA server and other SDK servers, you can only talk to one person at a time.

Unless it's intentional, which I don't see why it would be.
Title: Re: NPC that can talk with multiple persons at the time
Post by: Edik on April 30, 2011, 01:58:39 am
Thieves and buying same item(s) at the same time.
Title: Re: NPC that can talk with multiple persons at the time
Post by: Johnnybravo on April 30, 2011, 03:50:52 am
I'm kinda interested, why error message always says "they are..."
Title: Re: NPC that can talk with multiple persons at the time
Post by: Swinglinered on April 30, 2011, 07:11:16 am
I'm kinda interested, why error message always says "they are..."

Tenses/plurals may be hard for translation.

Title: Re: NPC that can talk with multiple persons at the time
Post by: Ghosthack on May 13, 2011, 12:59:44 am
It used to be like this before August 2010 wipe. It was either 2 or 3 people that could talk to a merchant at the same time. I blame TLA/SDK engine - in TLA server and other SDK servers, you can only talk to one person at a time.

Unless it's intentional, which I don't see why it would be.

Yes, this is enforced by an engine change, will be changed in the future when possible.
Title: Re: NPC that can talk with multiple persons at the time
Post by: firehand on May 15, 2011, 01:13:46 am
I'm kinda interested, why error message always says "they are..."

I assume that "they're" in "They're talking to too many people at once." message was ment to serve as impersonal pronoun and substitute "He/she is". But it doesn't sound good and i am not even sure if that's grammatically correct. I suggest using "The person is currently busy talking to someone else." instead, or alternatively "The person can't talk to more people at once.".

Yes, this is enforced by an engine change, will be changed in the future when possible.

Good to know :)