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Thread: NPC Clearance (not for whiners!)

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    Clara good idea, or even if evony would not flip the flats when they get rid of the npc would be great also, but never the less i like a map thats not locked down, makes it better to pillage and plunder states when you can random in a state and land near someone, its like a surprise and i like surprises.....lol

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    Oh look, my old b1tch thread got revived by someone

    So... I spent week after week after week having level 1-4 and 6-9 npcs wiped around my cities. And week after week after week I filled them back up with npcs. The first couple times I actually tried holding them to level them each night at maintenance, but let's face it, once a state is full/nearly full, you can forget levelling a flat. You even try to drop one seconds before the server shuts down, it's still filled by an alt before you can get scouts back to it after server restart.

    Eventually, these 1-4's and 6-9's made it to 5's and 10's.. eventually. Hooray, there was balance in the universe. I actually got to do something on Monday's other than build npcs and retake valleys. But 'lo and behold, they've run out of junk npcs to wipe. We got the big wipe finally this week.

    I woke up, along with the rest of my server, to 50% or more of every state being empty. I muttered, I grumbled, I tried to see the bright side. Ok np, there's now 20-25 flats all in one big bunch that used to be my npc5's but now are all level 6 flats. I can plop a city dead center there and build a nice 10 field, yay!

    With my optimism hat firmly in place, I went about my day filling the random 5 or 10 flat that somehow didn't level up to a 6 or 1 flat around my 8 cities. Mind you, this was nearly an all day project. The next morning I wake up ready to look at all the beautiful level 7 flats that would in just 3 short days be a whole sea of level 10 npcs... but wait! They're not beautiful level 7 flats. They're half level 6 npcs surrounding someone's alt that randomed around the state wrecking fields all night. The other half are flatfillers/plugs/noob accts.

    I have all of my cities spaced around 12-16 miles apart for farming purposes, the npcs between them all got the axe in that sweep. Now everything that got the axe is a level 6 or level 1 npc.

    This is the coords of the level 6 npcs within 25 miles of one city, which is almost entirely between this one and another:
    686,683 685,679 686,679 691,683 687,679 686,678 689,679 692,683 689,678 686,677 693,683 688,677 692,680 689,677 685,676 686,694 691,678 694,683 688,676 691,677 687,675 694,680 692,677 693,677 694,678 695,679 696,679 695,677 696,678 697,679 696,677 700,685 700,683 699,679 700,682 700,681 700,679 701,682 701,680 702,684 671,696 667,685 698,671 670,697 666,691 666,692 668,696 665,691 666,694 665,693 664,691 665,694 663,685 663,684 702,671 692,664 664,692 665,696 704,672 663,693 663,694 709,685 662,692 662,693 661,692 665,700

    Thank you evony, I wanted to lose 66 of my npcs between 2 cities.

    On ss52 these wipes were the worst part of the server and playing experience. It was actually a blessing on ss60 that they didn't affect us much due to there being SO MANY people around that it didn't have 'idle' areas to wipe out. I'm just filled with a sense of dread to know that this is going to happen regularly now on my new server.

    I've never made this promise/threat before, despite how many times you guys have ***ed me over. So I don't make it lightly and I do understand you don't actually care. But consider the autocents on my acct on both servers I play as cancelled forever. You've gotten the last dime I'll ever spend on this game.
    Last edited by Ailuros; 06-05-2011 at 08:28 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ailuros View Post
    You even try to drop one seconds before the server shuts down, it's still filled by an alt before you can get scouts back to it after server restart.
    That described my experience on server 149. I would guess that's the server you're talking about, because I notice that my old second city that was a level 1 NPC has now been made into a level 2 NPC.

    Wow. That - only - took - months - to - happen....

    But 'lo and behold, they've run out of junk npcs to wipe. We got the big wipe finally this week.
    Well, if Evony had listened when they were told that the NPC purge was broken...

    ...and if they had listened when they were told that people were constantly jamming that server full...

    ...and if they had decided to do something about those who play this game like their lives were at stake if they didn't try to pull every dirty, rotten trick out there...

    ...then maybe the server would be worth playing.

    As it stands, it isn't. No matter how much they wipe out, it will be full again in a matter of a day or two. Server 149 could perhaps be Evony's version of Mos Eisley spaceport... "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".

    They're half level 6 npcs surrounding someone's alt that randomed around the state wrecking fields all night. The other half are flatfillers/plugs/noob accts.
    See above...and ditto.

    You've gotten the last dime I'll ever spend on this game.
    Sadly, the company does not understand how it turns paying customers into non-paying customers. Even worse, it doesn't appear to care to find out. Yes, yes, there was that survey thing, but we were surveyed before, and nothing happened, and nothing has appeared to have happened with this latest survey.

    The company reminds us on a consistent basis that the game is set in real time in a persistent environment. What they need to remind themselves of is that if that is the case, then they have to be A LOT MORE RESPONSIVE TO CUSTOMER ISSUES. Time is money, and in some cases, quite literally. Delays of weeks or months to address / redress issues is unacceptable with respect to the realtime aspect of this game.

    @Khalee - Yes, the NPC clearings are needed, but the way they are done is terribly broken. Your thread would have meaning if the company cared to find out what was broken and wanted to fix it. They have demonstrated time after time that they think there is no problem at all, just like with your Block button campaign.

    You picked the Block button as your battle to fight. Others of us picked the NPC clearings, which are driven by the massive amounts of bad behavior by other customers; customers that cheat and consider anything that they can do as something that they should do in order to win. That, in my view, is poor sportsmanship.

    It is of no matter though. I've given up caring. My suggestion is that you do the same about the block button. Life is a lot simpler not caring about this game. It took a family issue to make me see that. Don't let that be what's required for you to see it.
    Last edited by neko_lord; 06-05-2011 at 11:18 PM.

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    i had always thought these massive clearings were to demonstrate the true inactivity of a server...

    then move forward in determining what servers to merge..

    when was the last merge anyway?

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    Sorry evony.. but there needs to be a better way to fix noob account creation
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    I cant fund any 5 on my server.
    If you are wondering where I'm at please take a look at this post: http://bbs.evony.com/showpost.php?p=...ostcount=69243

    Cya everyone.

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    npc being cleared i think is good i hate having just npcs around i looks real boring

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    eh i likem around neeed the farming, don't care about people porting in, GL if ya do
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