Traps resetting too quickly?

Hi, me and a few friends started playing recently and we are having a blast here. Thanks for the great environment and all the hard work.

Pardon me if I don't use the correct area labels. I've not read too far into these forums as I want to avoid spoilers as much as possible.

We entered the cave in the cemetery, made our way down..and down, disabling traps along the way, destroying skeletons as we went. We then entered what I suspect is a non newbish area. We went down a staircase and there was a large room with large books describing the tempting of a silver dragon to the darkside, and his descent into what I suspect is him becoming a dracolich. In any case, we poked around a bit, then decided to head back up, as one of us was hurt and needed a rest, and we recalled there was a restable spot above us. Me and a companion climbed the stairs, found ourselves in the middle of a trapped area, which subsequently triggered as a skeleton rushed and attacked us. Needless to say we died.

I'd like to suggest that perhaps the trap herein shouldn't be such that when you enter the room (from below), one is in the middle of it. With the whole nature of the transition system of nwn, there is no chance for the trap to be detected and disarmed.

My apologies if I missing the intent of the trap or some other subtlety which warrants it behaving so.

Thanks again for all the great work.

Agreed; a longer respawn time would be helpful in such places like there, the crossroads bridge, etc. Lowbies are dying!

Agreed 100%, the traps tend to respawn *way* too fast, and some are unfairly placed in areas that low level PCs will get to.


High-level PCs get no pity from that sort of thing, as long as its in a level-appropriate spot.

Traps reset based on a combination of area clearer script and area populating script. There isn't really a "timer" to them...they get reset after the cleaner script has run, when a PC enters the area (so that they are there if a PC teleports out, and another PC does a run into an area).

I will move that trap and a few others further from doorways and heavy-newbie traffic spots.