::Forum - NPC inside facility, ship, or station.

Year 8 Day 72 23:35	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Skirata Sopot	I am currently gathering all of my NPCs and some of them i have purchased. However, a few of them are inside some taverns and hotels and it won't show me where they are. This makes it slightly difficult for me to pick them up since there are no coordinates for me to go to. Could you fix this problem? I would feel much better if i were able to know where my personnel are at. This may also be the case for materials...I don't know

Year 8 Day 73 0:03	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Hal Breden	If you don't own the location the NPCs are in, then you can't view where it is. This allows them to be arrested and held, without you simply being able to look in your inventory and seeing where they are. It used to be that you could only ever see a room ID, which was a pain in the ass because you can't see a room ID unless you're in it, and hunting around all your ships/vehicles/facilities for an NPC was no fun at all. If they were even in one of yours at all! Be glad for what you have. ____________ "May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies." Only fools and children dream of heroes.

Year 8 Day 73 0:18	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Skirata Sopot	Well how about taking away that little privilege WHEN they are arrested. Until they are, why not allow them to "Report their location" to me?

Year 8 Day 73 12:36	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Hal Breden	"Where are you?" "Um, I'm in some office building, called 'You are here'. When are you coming to pick me up?" Seems to cover it. ____________ "May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies." Only fools and children dream of heroes.

Year 8 Day 73 13:13	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Skirata Sopot	That makes sense.....but wouldn't they at least know which planet they are on? At the very least?

Year 8 Day 73 13:17	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Kirit Hin`Kirl	puts NPC outside I can see exactly where the bugger is, even if I'm on the other side of the galaxy. puts a roof over the fool's head Suddenly the location is a complete mystery. Makes sense.

Year 8 Day 73 13:30	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Hal Breden	You're venturing into realms of programming limitations, I think. The game is generally designed (from my understanding) to look only at the first container level. So if it's in a facility, the game only sees the facility. You'd have to run another query to find out where that facility is, and then another query to find out where the city is. Same with ships and vehicles. Of course, if a NPC is in a ship or vehicle it probably doesn't have any idea where it is. It might be reasonable to automatically show the full location for facilities only, since it does seem to make sense for the NPC to know what planet they're on. Have to hear programmer input on it, though, as to what works and what doesn't. ____________ "May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies." Only fools and children dream of heroes.

Year 8 Day 73 13:52	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Skirata Sopot	Thank you for your time Hal, you've been very helpful.

Year 8 Day 73 16:23	NPC inside facility, ship, or station.
Phryss	This is probably better suited for the suggestions forum now that the question has been answered. ____________ *I dare you to make less sense.* Are you a newbie, or do you have access to newbies?

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