| Author | strange thing happened |
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i was pulling off my recruiting troop so i would not get ambushed by player during travel but still im being ambushed just now and little funny thing here:
https://www.lordswm.com/warlog.php?warid=484296046
the server give me 7 monk to fight the thief player..and i am lvl 7! |
| It happens to every player who gets ambushed without troops. |
| This happens, if you have no units while getting ambushed :) :P |
| It's normal. If you travel with no troops and get ambushed, you'll get monks to fight the thief. The number of monks is equivalent to your combat level. |
hahaha :D why is that happened?i thought no troop with travel will not get ambushed but still..
i think my hero found some people along on road and then turn them monk because when my hero was there he had no money ;P monk will cheaper |
| ^^ Yes, its strange indeed. The empire should give you more monks consider that most thiefs are dangerous. |
| >>> for Jeverag: Thieves* |
My hypothesis about the "why do you get monks" question:
If players have the possibility to travel with no units, then the programmer has to decide:
a) that player can't be ambushed - totally wrong, would destroy the thief guild
b) that player can be ambushed - the more acceptable solution
But choice b) poses another problem: a combat with no units on one side. I think (this is the guessing part) that such a situation can not be resolved by the program handling the combats. No last dying unit to mark the end of the combat. Therefore, you get some.....
...monks. But why monks?
Back in the early days of this server, ambushes weren't constrained to same level players. You could ambush anyone who's at least level 6, and within +-1 (or maybe +-2, I can't remember) combat level from you. To give players ambushed by a higher level player a chance to win, they were given some extra monks (random number within a given range). The "fantasy story" behind it was something like "monks were patrolling the lands, helping those attacked by criminals".
By the way, the extra monks led to some otherwise impossible situations like:
luck befalls monks
monks deal critical damage to the favoured enemy
monks deal LOTS of damage to SOMETHING, LOTS perish
Ultimately leading to a mid-level ambushed elf beating up the top knight... :) |
this is an interesting example, when i was reached level 6, my first time being ambushed, the thief is a lvl 8 knight with full arts.
something like monk deals critical damage does happen.
https://www.lordswm.com/warlog.php?lt=-1&warid=4229099 |
| hahahaha your monk rules!lmao monk FTW!! |
| closed by Lord moro88 (2009-11-08 12:59:59) |
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