[DGD] Gurbalib weapon class and general power tuning

[Troy Fisher]

I did this on a mud a couple of years ago. Everyone's got Alts and there is a definite travel plan for leveling, but I wanted this one to be exciting for all ages so I made a new inheritable (non DGD-mudlib) and on area load all the traps, mobs and object would scale to the player, it would unload from memory when the player exited.

It was part of my seasonal Halloween area, that I would add 100+ rooms to every year. For new and interesting experiences.

I think a lot of hardcoding of mobs and objects came from the way the games used to be played. In this day and age, I'd have most areas scale to the player(s) because that's the way people play video games (Skyrim)

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From: DGD <dgd-bounces at dworkin.nl> on behalf of Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 3:25:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [DGD] Gurbalib weapon class and general power tuning

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:12 AM nikoroleva <natasha.i.koroleva at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Gurbalib weapons have a weapon class property, but I don't see it used
> anywhere. I recently ported most of the public domain version of
> Angmar's lpmud castle to gurbalib. The castle includes a smith who
> evaluates weapons based on their weapon class, and I kept the code but
> it's pointless since the basis of offence is weapon skill. So, I think
> the smith should be updated to evaluate the character's skill against
> the weapon presented for evaluation or the weapon's min/max damage
> properties; I keep going back and forth on it.
>
> I also completed the Noki Cliffs area. I did a couple of walkthroughs
> in both areas and the power tuning seems ok (although I think I died
> too much :)). When I have the time I might do some more but just
> wondering if anybody has experience/thoughts about the topic of making
> monsters appropriate to character power.
>

It may depend on the particular mudlib but I just had the idea of having
the monster's power level itself dynamically determined at runtime based on
the character power.

If the character's own level is factored into a formula that determines the
monster's own level at the time of the encounter it could be interesting.


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