Guild NPC

Blue-Sabre · 09.08.2009, 19:08

What is a Guild NPC?
A Guild NPC is a single NPC (that the Guild leader can purchase from the Guild Island Screen) that patrols the island map. You can set it to stay close to island, patrol map boarder, or just sail about randomly.
The ship will be built and upgraded with pearl and gold upgrade points (that are purchased from the guild island screen), it can have:
HP to a max of 2million
Repair speed to 1000 HP per second
Increase its damage to a max of 6,000
Increase its firing speed to Rapid Fire (the same firing speed that the admirals have)

Or you can choose to upgrade on a little bit of each for example it has 500,000hp, repairs 300hp per second and does 4,000 damage with a shooting speed of gold powder monkies, depending on how many gold and pearl upgrade points you use.

How do upgrade points work?
The way upgrade points work is; you have a choice of 4 different upgrade points to buy for either pearls of gold, each type of upgrade point increases a specific stat of the ship. For example: When you buy a FS upgrade points you increase the Firing Speed of the ship. When you buy DMG upgrade points you increase the damage it does. When you buy HP upgrade points you increase its Health Points. When you buy REP upgrade points you increase the speed it repairs at.

The pearl points will obviously be twice as good as the gold points and the above max stats (HP=2,000,000 Repair Speed=1,000HP Damage=6,000 Firing Speed=Rapid Fire) are achievable through using pearl points only.
(The upgrade points are bought from the guild island screen and can only be purchased by the guild leader using the pearls and gold in the treasury. There is a max of 10 Upgrades per stat of the ship, meaning that it requires 40 upgrades in total to max out all four of the stats)

Guild NPC and multiple islands?
There will only be 1 Guild NPC per Guild regardless of the amount of islands they have. This ship is not transferrable, so once you have set it to an island you cannot move it to a different one.

If island is lost before the NPC is destroyed?
If the guild island is lost before the guild NPC ship is destroyed then it will simply explode as there is no longer an island for it to protect.

When the Guild NPC is destroyed?
When the guild NPC is destroyed the EP will be shared out between all the players who caused damage to it.
Depending on the level of the ship (how far it has been upgraded) the EP will vary. It will be higher for ships that have been upgraded with pearl points (250EP per Pearl Upgrade Point used) and lower for ships that have been upgraded with gold points (50EP per Gold Upgrade Point used).
You will not get gold or pearls for destroying these ships! But will have the satisfaction of knowing you cost that guild a lot of gold or pearls!

Other facts about the Guild NPC?
The Guild NPC cannot help you shoot other NPC’s
The Guild NPC will hit all players that are not in your guild, just like the towers on the island.
The Guild NPC is an optional extra that some Guild may want and some Guilds may not.

Possible ideas for the Guild NPC?
I like the idea of there being a record of the ship in a 'Guild NPC' section which goes into the 'Guild Island' area of the layout. Information regarding the ship will be viewable by everyone in the guild just like the islands information is. This means you can see its upgrade points, life, power, firing speed ect.

As you can see i have also added a repair function to the Guild NPC. Do you think this repair function would make it too difficult to defeat? Yes/No?

I have also included all the information from buying it and upgrading it, to the rewards for destroying them.
If there is anything i have missed out or anything you would like to see added then please let me know.
Thank you,
Blue-Sabre

theinvisiblekiller · 09.08.2009, 19:56

i REALLY like this idea

blackheartryan · 09.08.2009, 23:24

good idea i like it. i hope bigpoint consider it it would have to look cool though

OrcHunter* · 10.08.2009, 19:07

lol this is gd idea but can that guild NPC help us in geting things like gold or ep hehe

dannymin · 10.08.2009, 19:56

i think that a very good idea as if ur island is getting hit and none of the guild are on there is still a ship that can defend ur island and it will be harder for the attackers to take the island.

Ranger7696 · 10.08.2009, 19:58

I love this idea! Islands seem a little pointless because they cant move but now you could have it move and sink your enemys before they reach the island.

Blue-Sabre · 10.08.2009, 21:51

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Originally Posted by OrcHunter*

lol this is gd idea but can that guild NPC help us in geting things like gold or ep hehe

No it won't help you get gold or EP Orchunter, but will be a great help in defending the island/map when not many people are on just like you said.
As i mentioned above, if it is sunk whoever deals the final blow will receive an amount of EP depending on the strength of the ship.. The amount of EP you will receive i have not decided on yet.

If anyone has any other questions i would be happy to answer them.

Note: i am thinking that the amount of EP received is shared between all the people who attacked the ship by the amount of damage they caused.

micardo11 · 10.08.2009, 23:01

Will it only be the Guild Leader/Council who have control over the NPC & decide on its settings?.

Blue-Sabre · 11.08.2009, 00:22

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Originally Posted by micardo11

Will it only be the Guild Leader/Council who have control over the NPC & decide on its settings?.

Yes only the guild leader and council will have control over the NPC settings. In total there are three settings for it, to patrol near island, at the boarders of the map, or to patrol the entire map randomly.

Note: It is only the leader that can create the ship. it takes time to build just like the cadocs and also only the leader can upgrade it.
It is upgraded using pearls and gold from the guild treasury.

-:Concombre:- · 11.08.2009, 00:25

wow good idea i like it better than the decks