Bring The Ants Back To A Non-pk Map For Anthill?

[Learner]

I'm thinking about starting the Ants backup again, their Anthill would be placed on a non-PK map for now, as usual it will be changed at intervals.

 

Feel free to make other comments about them, but I'll be ignoring any suggestions as to which map if they come back.

[scarr]

whats the point in them?

[justice_knight]

i donna but im voted as one so vote 5 and that will be cool 20 will take over the world like squirrels

[scarr]

Learner can also see via Ants what you do.. nice to have some1 keep looking at you

[Nidan]

yeah i usually liked the ants, but could you make them not walk in certain areas such as SKF. It really sucks if they pick up your death bag. I know they can pick up death bags in other maps as well, but a map like SKF is a fight only map, nothing else to do there.

[freeone3000]

i donna but im voted as one so vote 5 and that will be cool 20 will take over the world like squirrels

They were the "janitors" of eternal lands, picking up every bag they found and putting it in "lost and found" (the anthill). Slightly harder for fighters and other people who die often to get their bags back, but cuts down on bagspam effects beacuse the bags are removed from the map normally faster than the twelve-minute timeout.

[Aislinn]

I voted for 5, I wasn't all that thrilled when we were overrun with them before.

But I think just a small amount is entertaining. A large amount is just annoying.

(Sorry learner )

[Derin]

The ants are a nice addition, but i agree with Aislinn, not too many please (I voted 10)

[Daxon]

I liked the ants. Good janitors when they were working. I actually voted for the 1st one, but ten or even five is just fine.

[Kami]

I'd say bring them back but make more use out of them. Frankly, they were Not Great Janitors! I noticed that all they would do is walk around IP, stealing other Player's kills yet bypassing all of the Bags of Bones lying around!

 

One thing I'd like to see is another form to add to the Ants. We have normal Ants and the Ant Queen but what we really need is Warrior Ants! Then, the ants would have a Purpose! Kind of Like a Mini-Game.

 

Get this:

We have Worker Ants Wandering the Grounds picking up trash and bringing it back to the Hill.

 

We can have Warrior Ants to Protect the Ant Hill and Whenever an Ant is attacked, the Warrior Ants will Swarm the Attacker.

 

The Queen Ant should stay near the Ant Hill and Should be programmed to sort the Collected Junk according to worth and "Spawning" new Ants (Dead Ants respawn with her). Plus, the Queen Ant is Like the Adjective of the Game. Kill her to Raid the Ant Hill.

[RolandR1]

I'd say bring them back but make more use out of them. Frankly, they were Not Great Janitors! I noticed that all they would do is walk around IP, stealing other Player's kills yet bypassing all of the Bags of Bones lying around!

 

One thing I'd like to see is another form to add to the Ants. We have normal Ants and the Ant Queen but what we really need is Warrior Ants! Then, the ants would have a Purpose! Kind of Like a Mini-Game.

 

Get this:

We have Worker Ants Wandering the Grounds picking up trash and bringing it back to the Hill.

 

We can have Warrior Ants to Protect the Ant Hill and Whenever an Ant is attacked, the Warrior Ants will Swarm the Attacker.

 

The Queen Ant should stay near the Ant Hill and Should be programmed to sort the Collected Junk according to worth and "Spawning" new Ants (Dead Ants respawn with her). Plus, the Queen Ant is Like the Adjective of the Game. Kill her to Raid the Ant Hill.

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the would be a kool role-playing idea!!!!!!!!

[Learner]

Actually, some of the Ants are warriors. Just not always the same ones. They 'patrol' an area around the Anthill and are twice as aggressive as the normal workers. What they probably need is more smarts in getting healed up then they have currently. Maybe the Ant Queen needs to get remote heal and those essences?

[justice_knight]

i donna but im voted as one so vote 5 and that will be cool 20 will take over the world like squirrels

They were the "janitors" of eternal lands, picking up every bag they found and putting it in "lost and found" (the anthill). Slightly harder for fighters and other people who die often to get their bags back, but cuts down on bagspam effects beacuse the bags are removed from the map normally faster than the twelve-minute timeout.

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yeah i know but they,i just dont trust them.....lol

[Rend]

I like the ants, but the number online needs to be less than 20, especially during peak times. 10 is a good number, maybe more when the number of players online drops below 200.

 

What I would really like from the ants is for some of that AI programming to find its way into creating monsters that are more of a challenge. If all the ants do is walk around picking up stuff, they are only taking up space.

Edited April 29, 2005 by Rend

[justice_knight]

hey ants will be ants lol personally i think ants are working with squirrels and i have reason to believe so is lord_vermor but i will not say anymore

[Mr.Mind]

The ants didn't do much more than annoy me. Improve their programming or change some of their functions perhaps. I see I'm the only person who doesn't want them back.

[justice_knight]

who are u kidding i just want 5 so i can make sure i get my stuff but i voted 5 because they are evil....

[Kala]

Weren't you working on a system where if I were to give an ant the ingredients for alchemy things, then it would make an essence? That's a wonderful way to waste time. ^^

 

I remember starting and finding a plate armor in a hill, but I left it because I didn't know how to drop things, and my inventory was full.

[justice_knight]

i just want them to pick stuff up its not suppose to be complicated

[Lyanna]

Actually, some of the Ants are warriors. Just not always the same ones. They 'patrol' an area around the Anthill and are twice as aggressive as the normal workers. What they probably need is more smarts in getting healed up then they have currently. Maybe the Ant Queen needs to get remote heal and those essences?

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Can you create a buy/sell script for Ant_queen to sell veggies and buy essences from Grahms Village? If so, then she can heal her clan. (In which case, you might as well make some Ants PK-able... hehe, with red names, they could be Red Ants).

 

And since I already wrote the story for them (and it got published), of course I want them back. 10 sounds about right... that's what - half an Ant per map?

 

-Lyn-

[rasberrybeard]

I remember those little guys, sure bring em back, but improve their AI.

[Arnieman]

10 sounds about right... that's what - half an Ant per map?

 

-Lyn-

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I don't even WANT to know about putting only half an ant on each map...

 

Shame the poll doesn't have an option for "Bring them back, but I don't care how many."

 

One idea: maybe make a few of them "squirrels". They go to a random fruit or vegetable harvesting place on certain maps, harvest for maybe a minute or two, go to a "collection point" and hoard their food there. The ants could even come by and walk off with it in a random fashion too. Is this idea allowable, or even feasable?

[crannog]

personaly i liked the ants - i voted for 20 - because now there are more maps for them to "patrol"

 

maybe more on the more populated maps such as whitestone and votd

[Mireille]

personaly i liked the ants - i voted for 20 - because now there are more maps for them to "patrol"

 

maybe more on the more populated maps such as whitestone and votd

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Do empty bags slow down the server in any way? I think Ants would slow it down more... So more ants in VOTD would make it even more laggy than it is now, even though it's hard to believe it's possible.

[Placid]

whats the point in them?

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Bring them back in hoards!!!!

 

Satan, they are AI experiments.