jestermgee

I would like to know before I purchase. I plan to add this to trigger a raid against players after so many NPC kills however I use the "BetterNPC" plugin and would like to know if these are (or can) be counted as NPC kills. I'd like to have maybe a count of 100 of ANY kind of NPC then a raid is triggered. Is this possible? Looking at the example confog it appears to list only the official Rust NPCs.

I just wanted to ask a question on this plugin (or maybe a similar plugin) I am sure at some stage in my trawling for plugins I noted a NPC raid style plugin that could be auto triggured against a player when they killed X number of NPCs in the world. I think the way it would work is player kills a certain number of NPCs and when they return to their base, an NPC raid team spawns outside their base area and starts raiding the players base (player is authed on the TC) Is that possible with this plugin or maybe another plugin? I'd love an element of surprise instead of having to call a raid.

Great plugin but needs a lot of work to make it usable... I will open by saying this is a full featured plugin that can really offer some great extra challenge to low pop or PVE styled servers by populating the map with challenging NPCs however, there are issues and out of the box it is far from good and should IMHO offer a couple of different preset packages... The Good So it uses the NPC Spawn system to generate endlessly styled NPCs at all monuments and events with the option to replace existing NPCs. I ahve tested a few NPC plugins and this one by far is the better one mostly because it doesn't just drop NPCs around the edge of a monument, it has spawn locations within rooms, atop of roofs and even snipers in towers. NPCs may charge you, they may respond to sound so several may rush you and with such variety of presets for the weapons and behaviours, they may throw grenades, flash banks, smoke bombs or even attack you in your base with explosives and rockets if you try hide. Each NPC can be fine tuned using the preset files to adjust how the behave, what weapons they carry, if they can heal themselves, how fast they move and even if they can attach other NPCs or animals around them. The Not So Good Out of the box every NPC is armed with a gun making it impossible to get to ANY monument to get basics when starting including mining outposts, gas stations and supermarkets. Additionally, all NPCs are ramped up in run speed that when they rush you often you are just dead since you cannot run and cannot reload fast enough to take out more than 1 at a time. Accuracy is also far too dialled up with snipers having silencers and hitting you from a mile away. It takes a LOT of adjustment and on my server I removed all guns from roaming NPCs, ones stationed at the basic monuments like mining outpost, supermarket, gas station and electrical sub stations so starter players can find at least something before being killed. It is also needed to tune most of the NPCs run speed down to 5 or 4 instead of hte preset 7.5-10 as that is just stupid. Increasing the Aimcone to about 2.5 for most NPCs makes them less accurate and so easier to fight in numbers. All of this has to be done or the challenge is just frustrating as all hell. Another issue I find is the cargo ship no matter how I try the NPCs I replace on there are usually useless and easier to take out than the default ones. I filled cargo with heavy scientists and other NPCs and most of them will not engage you if you are not right up close to the ship. Heavies will engage if you give them a chaingun and snipers will engage but I add in a mix of extras and keep the originals as I find the original NPCs often function far better than these ones which seem to have a simple program of attack player by running directly at them, that is it. So it's a neat plugin that can add value but does have its weaknesses

Looks interesting but cost wise in USD it's just too much for a small personal server to justify the cost just for an event plugin. Wish some of these plugins were a little more realistic in cost.

Cheers for the reply. Yeah I was a little confused as to what comes in each of the tiers and I have some friends who love building so the idea was each wipe we play I can snapshot their base, set the container layouts and then use it as a "real world" style of raid base for the next time which I like the idea of so sounds like maybe Tier 1 would be a good starter. Might set about investing in this.

I am setting up a private server at the moment for testing, likely will just be a small server for friends and trusted players running off my own server. I have played on a server for years that used this plugin and it was a nice option to offer some raidable loot but I always found the tiers a little too "fake" such as Easy is almost always 'too easy' wood, medium is always a small stone base and hard upwards on a populated server is almost never bothered with as the cost to raid usually is less than the rewards.. Also the raid bases are almost never based on an actual design you would ever encounter. I have been happy in how it all works, can make my own raidable designs and can setup the loot tables tho would love more pre-set tables to save time, I likely would just make my own raidable bases. I live in Australia so the cost is about 40% higher making it a costly investment for the purpose and was disappointed to find the "bundle" option for Tier 3 + Plugin is $70 now $70 (so no discount) which in AUD is about $98. Is there any better pricing available or maybe the option somehow to purchase just the plugin requirement and loot / config files but not the bases or something? Thinking at this point I may just get the plugin or make do with the free version but I literally only want the ability to have maybe 2 or 3 raidable levels (with different loot sets) and the ability to set a "possibility" as the current setting in the loot for the free version appears to not work. Thinking the way I may make loot levels in the free version is just to add fixed loot crates along with the loot table spawns.