No NPC's??

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This happened about 15 minutes BEFORE I got the 1.09 patch so I don't know what's up.  I played the game two days ago and everything was fine...  I started a new game and founded my first city and noticed upon ending my turn that Janusk didn't show up.  Then as I was wandering the map for a while I started to realize there were NO npc's at all.  I even researched recruiting to see if that would do anything.  Anyone else have this problem?  I really don't want to reinstall.  :(

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Janusk was controlled by a setting in the gameplay options last time I checked.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

No problem with the NPCs in my game.

Janusk appeared as usual, and while still in the beginning of the game, I already found 3 wondering heroes with different bonuses.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I haven't played 1.09e yet, but have played 1.07-1.09 a fair bit without hero problems (ignoring the 1.08 hiccup).

I spent some time playing around with starting new games and pushing Ctrl+U to reveal the map over and over again (cheats enabled obviously).  Some games have very few heroes and some have lots.  Some games the nearest hero is half-way across the map and other times there's 3+ within 10 squares of where you start.

I haven't paid a lot of attention to the recruitment tech so I don't know how it works exactly, but it may be that it just spawns more heroes around the map in the same random fashion.  So it may be you just got really unlucky that game.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Sorry, I turned him off.

Dhraconus--interesting, I have played a game where I wondered if I was going to meet anybody.  That explains why.  I like the randomness.  Makes it more interesting.