Monster Spawning

[Bathiir]

I don\'t think I\'ve seen any info on how monsters will generate.

There\'s just one thing that I think should NOT be done: making that one monster(s) spawn from the same exact spot so people can wait there for the monster(s) to come back to kill it.

The monster spawning idea is just about the only and easiest way that monster\'s can come back into the world, because actual birth would just be too complicated and then you\'d need parents but what\'d happen if the parents were killed etc. etc.. I\'ve been thinking of other ways that one could make monsters reappear but I can\'t come up with anything, so I just wish for one thing: that the monsters should generate in random spots, but in some sort of order so that they don\'t seem to just be popping out of nowhere.

I\'d really like to see some new sort of monster system. Post any suggestions if you have any I guess.

[Syzerian]

well things like skeletons could climb out of the ground and flying animals could fly out of the sky

[Bathiir]

YES! I love those ideas, don\'t know why I didn\'t think of them O_o!

Yea different types of monsters have different types of ways to enter the world.

[Typies]

now thats an idea! theres something i\'d like to see! i realy dont like the way that they just appear out of thin air
(edit:stupid typos)

[Melbourne]

Perhaps the rate at which a monster would spawn depends on the number of monsters of that type there are already in the world.  I was thinking something like the more of a certain type of monster would mean that they can reproduce faster.  For example, say that noone ever kills the weak little bunny monster because they pose very little threat and you don\'t get very much loot from them.  Then one day you decide to leave town and all the little bunny monsters that noone ever kills because they\'re so weak, has multiplied into several hundred little bunny monsters that swarm you and rip you to shreds.  The example above also shows a problem with the idea, where monsters could multiply out of control.  Also there wouldn\'t be any rare monsters to begin with, but when people find out what monsters drop the best, it would be possible to hunt them to near extinction.

[josephoenix]

I think that every so often, at least for monsters that don\'t appear another way, portals akin to those the different races supposedly came out of would appear, possibly with a \"disposable\" npc coming out (disposable meaning it doesn\'t talk, drops no weapon if you kill it, etc.) being chased by a herd of monsters... That would be considered by some to be \"popping out of thin air\" but it would have some connction with the setting, showing how monsters came into the world with the races, possibly offering some connections between a race and a particular monster, such as a monster that came from the same world as a certain race that has a poison attack. The poison attack would work on almost every race except for the one who came from the same world as the monster, who has built up an immunity.

Just my $0.02... wait... $2.00. Durn inflation.

josePhoenix

[Syzerian]

well maybe monsters could jump out of bushes or trees then

[Bathiir]

What if the monster is 10x bigger than the tree? Make a tree 10x bigger than the monster? Lol

[fireofsoul]

It WOULD be good if when the monster is defeated that after a certian period of time it would respawn in a random area. Even areas like newbie area with weaker monsters....Vengeance area with the strongest monsters. So the stronger monsters would respawn in a random place in the Vengeance area etc...



This being a very bad example, but it would be good to see them in different areas, so the newbies can have a chance to gain up ther experience.