[MUD-Dev] SOC DGN - Spawn locations

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:32:37 -0400 
Douglas Goodall <dgoodall at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Matthew Rick wrote:

>> 1) Mobs may become too scarce in crowded areas (newbie areas
>> specifically)

> You can prevent this if you have rooms/zones where players either
> can't enter or can't stay for very long. Mobs could always spawn there
> and then travel to more crowded areas.

The age-old pattern in SHADES and a few other games was that NPCs
spawned in rooms that were not player accessible.  One-way exits then
lead from those rooms to a variety of locations about the land.  Random
motions on the part of the NPC then progressed them through a random
exit and thus randomly into one of a fairly small set of initially
"visible" locations.

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J C Lawrence
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