Politician Archive
Thread: Devs: Stop NPC Spam It's Unnecessary
I have sent the following Private Message to the game developers in hopes that I can be heard on behalf of those who have talked to me about this issue:
Greetings!
I have several friends who play on the Kettemoor server who have informed me that they will not be playing for a while due to the recent changes. They have no problems with the scans; it's the vocalizations. The NPCs that come into cantinas are spamming the chat with their speech.
This would be tolerable if it was once in a while, but as they are making scans every 4 - 7 minutes, it becomes rather like greifers, except we cannot /addignore the NPC Stormtroopers when we don't want to listen to them.
I am a mayor in a player city and several of the citizens have expressed this concern to me and stated they will be avoiding NPC cities because of this. The problem is, a lot of good social interaction occurs in NPC cities and we're being left out now because we're being forced to choose between listening to spam and our sanity.
I'd like to pose the following recommendations to fix this problem:
A) Reduce the frequency of cantina scans to once every 20 minutes or so to give time for players to carry on conversations
B) Make it possible for players to /addignore or some alternative thing to quiet the Stormtroopers for those who choose not to listen to their spam
C) Reduce the amount of vocalizations the Stormtroopers make to just an announcement of their presence, "Prepare for an Imperial Scan" and "There's nothing here, move along" or something of that sort.
I realize this is a minor issue in comparison to some bugs, but it is greatly detrimental to the overall atmosphere of the game and hampers any conversations between players in NPC city cantinas. I realize that some vocalization and the Imperial presence is conducive to creating a more Imperial and Star Wars atmosphere, but there comes a point where it is too much, and I believe, as do others, that point was crossed.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Derianadai Hirunmil