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[Arc]

I get a retainer. I order him to protect me, he's nowhere to be seen. I order him to gather resources and pick my building, he's nowhere to be seen. How does this work? He's getting the orders, but doesn't seem to do any of them. Does he just magically warp items into storage or actually go gather them and return? Does he just head to me if I lose or is he supposed to follow and actively protect me?

Where do I get "Primodial Chaos Inner Kung Fu"? Does it have rules to spawning? I'm on like my 4th character, I've checked every single sect and master in multiple worlds, I can't find this thing. Its apparently the only way to significantly up my power at this point beyond suicide.

What's the point of putting people in jail? I tortured someone but they just died.

How do I make pets roam? I can either make them wait (they do nothing), sit in a pen (they do nothing) or obsessively follow me. I see no option to make them simply wonder around as normal and in the monkeys case gather like its supposed to. I can make it beg manually, but not walk or gather unless its obsessively following me.

I can throw weapons at people from stealth. Despite using a top tier legendary weapon and having nearly every level up put into ranged weapon damage, this does basically nothing even to weak people. Is there a way to make this strong? Or is it just a 'scare/annoy npc' button?

Do NPC's respawn/get replaced or will ripping the head off of every bandit permanently remove bandits until I add more areas?

[Romeo Charles]

For the first question go to your relationship tab, then select their portrait, and there should be an option to mark their location. Go find him, see if maybe he's in the dungeon or in trouble, save them if needed, cancel the issued order, drop a quick save, close the game, verify integrity, maybe uninstall reinstall, then go back in and re-issue the order. I know this is kinda a lot but I had an issue with 'dead AI' (AI just not really doing anything at all) and this fixed it for me. They're supposed to actively follow you, but can easily get lost since the player can come up with some wild pathing that just breaks the NPC's pathing. The traversal system in this game is awesome, why even ride a horse when I can parkour 10x faster.

I think this is an inner kung fu that you need to unlock a certain Karma to get, I'm not sure. I think it's the '30 intimacy/ grudge/ 1,000,000 gold' one. If not, honestly don't get attached to your first few characters, they'll be incredibly weak compared to one's you get down the line. And if they do die, spawn in the mini-world they died in and B Line to their body and you can get all your stuff back, and if you built any houses walk up to the door and 'seize' the building, which will make it yours again.

Haven't played with jail yet, but I've heard you can Stockholm people into liking you, and make them join your sect which will help recruit some of the more powerful NPC's without buying them out of their old sects.

Pet's don't seem to roam yet, the pause function essentially makes them kind of like a guard for your house so if you're attacked at your house they'll help you fight whoever is attacking. If you find a way to make them roam this please do tell.

Honestly even with powerful weapons they still only do 30-70 damage, unless you have upped your concealed attack damage to legendary levels, then you'll only do 30-70 damage per concealed weapon thrown, so no cheesing and assassinating characters as of now. There is an assassin sect so maybe they have some art that will let you do that, but I haven't gotten there yet.

Kind of unsure, I think if there's even 1 bandit NPC in the world they recruit/ more bandits can join the 'bandit' sect (it's not really a sect, but I'm pretty sure in my current world I had 3 bandits turn into 5 because I showed them mercy a lot cause I was a sect leaders kid so I'm a bit OP), only completely being wiped if you wipe out all of their equipment on the tiles they own. So once you take their heads, go to their base which will be highlighted in red, and destroy everything in the tile. But be warned, if you don't use your sect to claim that new tile as your own then if a new bandit cluster is spawned and left alone long enough they will rebuild their stuff in the tile. But I think the main thing that makes them join is having other bandits around. There's a lot of experimenting to be done in the game to see what does and doesn't work, and since it seems like it's in extreme early access, still in the 0.1 phase then it's safe to say a bunch of the things i've said will most likely be wrong in a few months.

[White Rider]

I have actually seen Primordial Chaos in a sect before. Was one of the random sects (not the main ones) that can spawn in the special tile towns.

You'll usually see it on some of the Da Nai guards or Sect Masters (occasionally).

[Arc]

Primordial chaos isn't the million karma thing, that's a seperate but similar buff I'll get way down the line since I refuse to abuse broken mechanics like stealing or printing books at an absurd consistent profit.

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Pet's don't seem to roam yet, the pause function essentially makes them kind of like a guard for your house so if you're attacked at your house they'll help you fight whoever is attacking. If you find a way to make them roam this please do tell.

Honestly even with powerful weapons they still only do 30-70 damage, unless you have upped your concealed attack damage to legendary levels, then you'll only do 30-70 damage per concealed weapon thrown, so no cheesing and assassinating characters as of now. There is an assassin sect so maybe they have some art that will let you do that, but I haven't gotten there yet."
Those are sucks.
Thanks
Maybe I'll try and find this assassin sect, whatever its called. I'm drunken brawler right now and its lame. You become immune to staggering around drunk when that's the entire appeal and everyone either kills you or dies way before you can realistically stack 15 booze


" (it's not really a sect, but I'm pretty sure in my current world I had 3 bandits turn into 5 because I showed them mercy a lot cause I was a sect leaders kid so I'm a bit OP)"
Is there a way to guarnatee options like this? My parents are weak.

Originally posted by White Rider:

I have actually seen Primordial Chaos in a sect before. Was one of the random sects (not the main ones) that can spawn in the special tile towns.

You'll usually see it on some of the Da Nai guards or Sect Masters (occasionally).

What are 'Da Nai guards'? Police? Do I need to break the law to spawn some?

[nDervish]

I haven't found Primordial Chaos yet either, but I think I've seen people saying that a quick way to scan NPCs for it is to mouseover them and look at their Health. If they have Primordial Chaos, it will be higher than 150 because they have more spaces on their meridian grid.

Da Nai guards are the "incomplete person" police force, yes. They live in the Forbidden City and will occasionally run out to deliver justice to wanted criminals.

The one good use I've found for throwing concealed weapons is taking out snakes or other aggressive wildlife before they see me and force me into a pointless fight.

[White Rider]

Originally posted by Arc:

Primordial chaos isn't the million karma thing, that's a seperate but similar buff I'll get way down the line since I refuse to abuse broken mechanics like stealing or printing books at an absurd consistent profit.

"
Pet's don't seem to roam yet, the pause function essentially makes them kind of like a guard for your house so if you're attacked at your house they'll help you fight whoever is attacking. If you find a way to make them roam this please do tell.

Honestly even with powerful weapons they still only do 30-70 damage, unless you have upped your concealed attack damage to legendary levels, then you'll only do 30-70 damage per concealed weapon thrown, so no cheesing and assassinating characters as of now. There is an assassin sect so maybe they have some art that will let you do that, but I haven't gotten there yet."
Those are sucks.
Thanks
Maybe I'll try and find this assassin sect, whatever its called. I'm drunken brawler right now and its lame. You become immune to staggering around drunk when that's the entire appeal and everyone either kills you or dies way before you can realistically stack 15 booze


" (it's not really a sect, but I'm pretty sure in my current world I had 3 bandits turn into 5 because I showed them mercy a lot cause I was a sect leaders kid so I'm a bit OP)"
Is there a way to guarnatee options like this? My parents are weak.

Originally posted by White Rider:

I have actually seen Primordial Chaos in a sect before. Was one of the random sects (not the main ones) that can spawn in the special tile towns.

You'll usually see it on some of the Da Nai guards or Sect Masters (occasionally).

What are 'Da Nai guards'? Police? Do I need to break the law to spawn some?

They are the guys that run the forbidden city. The Dynasty.
If you don't have them on the map yet, you will soon. They are not optional.

[Romeo Charles]

" (it's not really a sect, but I'm pretty sure in my current world I had 3 bandits turn into 5 because I showed them mercy a lot cause I was a sect leaders kid so I'm a bit OP)"
Is there a way to guarnatee options like this? My parents are weak.

Make friends with, or intimacy with 2 different sect leaders, this will unlock the 'Noble Scion' Karma and on the screen where you choose your parents should be the sect leader you're friends with or intimate with. That is the character I advanced the story with, made another character that is his kid, which is going to have another kid with another character, then I'm going to go back to Karma so I can be HIS kid, essentially playing as my OP characters great grandson. It's the best way to get better vigor. If you start as an orphan you have almost no vigor and you're pretty weak. I would just focus on one sect and learn all of their moves so you can pass on that kung fu to the next generations. But you can't customize your first name if you are born as anybodies kid. So if your parents name is NangongSune then your first name has to be Nangong, cause that's your family name, and you can change the second name, Sune, to whatever you want. (your first name is more like your last name in the English sense) This is why I'm playing as the grandson. Because then I can use the surname that I want to by creating a third character naming it CharlesFirstname, romance my second which is super powerful, and pick the surname that I want for the kid in order to start a new lineage with the Charles surname. Nangong isn't my first choice for a surname ngl.

[Arc]

Thanks I'll pirate your strategy and do exactly that (except the name bit, I don't even know the names of any character I've played, they don't really matter).
Also how does 'doubling up' on acupoints work? The guides here say its some gigantic stat increase somehow, but for me if I put an extra line into + 2 attack, I just get +2 more. It doesn't double other stat increases or anything like the guides seem to be trying to say

[Arc]

Actually how do I even become friends/lovers/whatever with sect master? No matter how high affinity is, they're just sect mates. No matter how high I get anyone I can't do this. They just say "our paths don't align, sorry". How do i make them align? They're nearing 1k affinity and its not letting me.

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by Arc:

Actually how do I even become friends/lovers/whatever with sect master? No matter how high affinity is, they're just sect mates. No matter how high I get anyone I can't do this. They just say "our paths don't align, sorry". How do i make them align? They're nearing 1k affinity and its not letting me.

you need to have your groin part still intact to be their lover

[Arc]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

Originally posted by Arc:

Actually how do I even become friends/lovers/whatever with sect master? No matter how high affinity is, they're just sect mates. No matter how high I get anyone I can't do this. They just say "our paths don't align, sorry". How do i make them align? They're nearing 1k affinity and its not letting me.

you need to have your groin part still intact to be their lover

I get these results regardless of if I play a male or female and regardless of the NPC's gender in relation to my own. I've also never been eunuch'ed. Actually I've never even seen the option to be a lover. Sometimes I get approadched by random people (who aren't sect heads so i don't care), but I've never had the option to ask them.

[NotYourTito]

Originally posted by Arc:

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

you need to have your groin part still intact to be their lover

I get these results regardless of if I play a male or female and regardless of the NPC's gender in relation to my own. I've also never been eunuch'ed. Actually I've never even seen the option to be a lover. Sometimes I get approadched by random people (who aren't sect heads so i don't care), but I've never had the option to ask them.

The option to ask to be intimate with someone is in the talk specific dialogue, not the menu when you first select an npc to interact with.

[Arc]

I figured. That's where the option to be brothers is. Still haven't seen it, not even with the guy in my game right now at > 800 favor who doesn't want to be brothers with me and is the opposite gender.

[NotYourTito]

Wierd, even if relation isn't high enough to work, the option should still be there. You have any mods installed?

[Arc]

Nope. But thinking on it, while I'm not a eunuch, maybe the guy I'm talking to is. I remember reading posts people lost their member somehow, maybe it happened to this NPC? Not sure why I haven't seen it on guys though. Chicks have no member to lose.
Still doesn't explain how to be a friend or brother though, which I do have the option to do (be brother) but simply never, ever works, ever, with anyone, in any world.

[nDervish]

Originally posted by Arc:

Nope. But thinking on it, while I'm not a eunuch, maybe the guy I'm talking to is.

If he is, then his stat display should include a red icon for the "incomplete person" debuff.