Totally wicked random encounter!

[Red]

Yup, and the "outdoorsman" ecounter name for it is simply "Portal"... I discoevered tat lately and though it was rather confusing.

Either way that's where you find the solar scorcher... even though I don't find that weapon great...

[Slave_Master]

Huh, I didn't know about those people. I stopped going into the caves after I had four consecutive times encountered wimpy deathclaws that were killed in two hits at a medium-low level. If only I persevered.....

[Beef]

sweet, you found the "robbers" encounter... not acully an acual encounter, but its a cave well... filled with guys with combat armor and tons of weapons....

acully killed me once with a critial shot, the bastards...

Um, good for you?

[Leperous Lenny]

Ok, I think I know why I never got the guys in combat armor in those caves. The best I ever had in the cave encounters was a bunch of robbers in leather jackets armed with dinky pistols. It has to do with the location. The further south you go, the harder the enemies become, right? So the chances of having one of those better cave encounters increases when you go further south. Of course, it could be a cave full of grown-up deathclaws *gasp!* Anyway, I will go down there and try to get me some of those special cave encounters.

[Beef]

Wow, a real-life noob... can I... touch it?

[Leperous Lenny]

Don't touch too much, Beef...I might lose an arm. Do you know how hard it is to reattach a fallen limb? Just ask Harold.

[Doc Hill]

I've played the game something like a hundred times and I think I got this figured out. The level of badassedness of the robbers depends on four things, size of party, level of main character, type of gun, type of armor. And yes I know badassedness is not a word, but it should be. Anyway I think thats it, because the earlier I encounter them the suckier they are.

[Slave_Master]

Badassedness should be a word. I'll blow away Webster if they don't make it one.

And yeah, you probably are right about that, Doc. Except even when I had the highest level, bestest eqipment, and the largest party I could have, I still got nothing but pussy deathclaws. Dammit. And can't play right now because I'm grounded off that computer. Oh well, I'll probably end up installing FO/2 on this one. ::sigh::

[Crud]

I've never got much of anything good from it either... though, I don't really need anything right now... except ammo for the gauss rifle would be nice.

[Kashluk]

And can't play right now because I'm grounded off that computer. Oh well, I'll probably end up installing FO/2 on this one. ::sigh::

OMG, OMG, what did you do? Format C:? 8O

[Red]

I'll investigate the matter soonish, but the main event modifyer is the level (you can see it in data/worldmap.txt I think... a file in there anyhow, when you find it it's pretty obvious that's where you setup random encounters). There is also a script to generate the random encounters, but I didn't take a look at it yet.

[Beef]

Don't touch too much, Beef...I might lose an arm. Do you know how hard it is to reattach a fallen limb? Just ask Harold.

Wow, this guy used his second post in replying to me... I'm... honored!

[Kashluk]

Shut up, Khan Beef, this ain't The Wasteland!

[Strap]

ive gotten that cave one, with the guass stuff, and YKB rifles.

another fun one was when i made a HtH slayer PC, and found a cave after kicking the crap out of some highway men, and in the cave there where tons of deathclaws, like, everywhere!

well, they where all Large size, and i was thinking-- CRAP!
but then i realized that they where extremely Weak! like 50 hp each! and they would run when i got close... so i kicked some deathClaw-ass that day