Method you would use to tell a player where to shop ?

[marvey323]

So in my multiplayer map, there's about half a dozen npcs and player feedback is that it would be nice to know where to go to buy things, and I was thinking of placing floating texts about the npc but would that leak ? (it will be left there for the duration of the game from map init)

• Floating Text - Create floating text that reads Level 1 - 5 above Lesser Item Shop 0051 <gen> with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%), and 0.00% transparency

What would be the best approach to indiciate what level shop items an npc contains?

 

[Cokemonkey11]

if the floating text is intentionally there for the whole game, how can it be a leak?

Here's an idea - give NPCs that do nothing the "locust" ability so they cant be clicked. Give NPCs that can sell items a unique, matching effect over their head (like an exclamation point?)

 

[marvey323]

Thanks

 

[sethmachine]

Why would you want NPCs to be unclickable? How else to interact with them?

 

[Cokemonkey11]

Why would you want NPCs to be unclickable? How else to interact with them?

If the NPC is purely for decoration (you can't interact with them), then making them unclickable is a clear sign to the client that clicking them doesn't have, and will never have, an effect.