>Was looking through the old Olympia Times, and found this:
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>Starting on G2 turn 40, the following rule change willbe in effect:
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> Prisoners and NPCs will no longer add to a stack's count
> of nobles for the computation of the movement delay.
> (Item-controlled units are exempt, and count as a noble.
> --
>Gamemaster [200]
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>Hopes this answers your questions. If not, then oh well.
>Marc
>Wolfpack
Marc:
The NPCs referred to by that publication were savages, either prisoners
or summoned by the use of Beastmastery skill.
The NPCs Eric is referring to are item-controlled, thus count as a noble.
Only it does not work that way. We had a stack with four item-controlled
NPCs. None of them were mine. I was the stack leader. None of them
counted as nobles for movement delay determination.
We then changed stack leader. The _new_ stack leader controled 2 of the
4 item-controlled NPCs. The movement delay was reduced as if those two, but
not the other two, were nobles.
As a final experiment, we split into two stacks. Each stack leader
controlled 2 of the 4 item controlled NPCs. In this case, all 4 contributed
to the reduction of the movemenbt penalty for their respective stacks.
This was reported to Rich [a _very_ long time ago]. It has not been
fixed, and may never be fixed. In the larger scheme of things it may
well be a minor glitch and fixing it could create bigger problems.
To me, at the time, it was a catastrophic glitch. Oh well. Tough
noogies [my loss].
Jim
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>rIn a message dated 2/10/99, 8:10:08 PM, Humakt2@aol.com writes:
><< We have another stack within our group that consists of one noble and
one
>npc,
> and the stack calculates as 2 nobles for the movement penalty.
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> What gives? Is this a bug?
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> Eric
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