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Game Mechanics - Mechanics Category
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Game MechanicsMob Spawning is the process by which npc and creature objects are brought into or removed from the game world. There are four types of spawning scenerios and several controlling factors for how things are spawned:
Controlling Factors
Spawner Objects This is the last layer of spawning mechanics before a mob is spawned into the game world, and its results are influenced by the lower tier functions of the spawning system such as the region lists, resource concentrations and player traffic in the area. A spawner object (sometimes given an in-game appearance by having a lair) would be created which would have information about what sort of spawn belonged at that location. As a player came into range for the MOBs to be initiated into the world, new creature/NPC objects would be generated to fit the specifications of the spawn. Ie, 2 Grand wrix and 3 mottled wrix. If all players vacated the "spawn radius" of that spawner object, the MOB objects would be removed from the world and from server memory (and/or the DB, as appropriate). When another player entered the spawn radius of that spawner object, the spawn type would again dictate what would be created. If it was a mixed type (as the example above), the ratio would be the same but the creatures themselves would be different - different size, different color tones, and different HAM.
Spawner objects seem to be placed at most, 90 meters from one another. There appears to be overlap of the spawner object locations in some cases as some spawn objects are closer than 90 meters to another spawner object. The overlap seems to be able 30 meters, therefore spawns can be anywhere from 60-90 meters from one another. When a player enters 120 meters of a spawn point (visible lair or invisible spawn point), then the spawn object will spawn the lair and then subsequently all attached mobs/npcs. It takes around 7 seconds to spawn the mobs around the spawn point once the spawn radius has been entered. When a player passes 128 meters (the limit of examine range) from the spawn point, then the spawn point despawns from the game world after 30 seconds if the player is still beyond 128 meters when the 30 second timer has elapsed. Following this, it takes around 30 seconds to despawn associated mobs with the spawn point once the original spawn object has despawned. Mob positions, stats etc reset every time the lair is spawned or despawned.
Static Townsperson SpawnsStatic Townsperson spawns are non attackable npcs that appear at fixed positions in every NPC city. Static townsperson npcs come in several types:
Most of these npcs are basically for decorative purposes to add atmosphere to each town. Each planet has its own unique set of npcs that are spawnable within a town. For example, gungan townsperson npcs only spawn on naboo as do Naboo RSF npcs and so on. Townsperson npcs have fixed spawn points and numbers per spawn. The number of townsperson npcs at a particular point will not change, however the composition changes at every server reboot. Following a server reboot, the type of npc at a particular spawn point will change although the quantity will not. As an example, at a fixed point near theed starport, there were two npcs ('a gungan hermit' and 'a farmer' )that spawn at a set location. At every server reboot these npcs are swapped with two different npc types ('a spacer' and 'a technician'. All static townsperson npcs have names along with an occupation description (ex. Joe Blow (a Spacer) ). Static npc names follow the same guidelines and limitations that normal species and gender restrictions allow for. As a general rule, any kind of npc can be placed together as long as it is appropriate for that planet (an tatooine only npc cannot spawn on naboo as an example) and within a certain challenge level range. The game uses mob region lists even for npc towns to determine what kinds of npcs can be selected from. These mob lists include planet specific npcs (gungans for naboo as an example) and caps the challenge level of npcs on that list so that only npcs within a certain level range can be selected from out of the pool (probably to prevent occurances as an example, such as nightsisters being selected as random filler npcs at dathomir outpost). In some cases it has been observed where storm troopers are paired with other npcs, thus the spawn system here is very diverse and randomized. Resource tables and player traffic has no effect on static townsperson spawns as they are fixed in number and in their positions. Note: On the live servers, Decorative npcs remain non combative and lose their innate faction affiliations and normal NPC AI routines such as attacking hostile factions or issuing verbal responses to hostile/friendly factions in the vicinity. All base non-townsperson decorative and mission npcs are instead moved to townsperson faction and perform normal social interactions that other townsperson factioned npcs follow.
Mission Giving Npcs Mission giving npcs follow the same rules as decorative npcs. Mission npcs are in fact decorative npcs that come in clusters of 2. All groupings of 2 decorative npcs are involved in the mission giving process. One of the npcs will be a herald for the actual quest giver, informing the player to talk with it.
Delivery mission targets are npcs that are selected to be part of the delivery missions either as the initial quest starter or as the delivery target. All delivery missions utilize "commoner" spawns which are fixed npcs around every town. The mission objective selects a random commoner to be the npc the player uses to begin the quest and then another commoner is selected out of the commoner node for a particular town to act as the npc that the player must deliver the object to. Commoner npcs follow the same ruleset as filler npcs except that only commoner style npcs are selected for spawning.
Crafting Mission Targets
Crafting mission targets are npcs that are selected to be part of the crafting missions either as the initial quest starter or as the delivery target. All crafting missions utilize "commoner" spawns which are fixed npcs around every town. The mission objective selects a random commoner to be the npc the player uses to begin the quest and then another commoner is selected out of the commoner node for a particular town to act as the npc that the player must deliver the object to. Commoner npcs follow the same ruleset as filler npcs except that only commoner style npcs are selected for spawning.
Herald npcs are npcs that are used to inform players of particular spots on a planet through dialogue and by issuing waypoints. These npcs use the same model and name at all times and are always found in the same position.
Quest npcs are a form of static npc that a player interacts with to begin a quest series. Quest npcs use unique models and names for that particular npc and do not follow the patterns for decorative npcs. Quest npcs can always be found in the same spot at all times. Static World SpawnsStatic world spawns are attackable npcs or creatures that spawn into the world at fixed points on a planet and at certain times. Mobs that spawn at this points will always be the same type of entity. Each planet has its own unique set of static entities and spawn timers for particular groups of mobs. Known spawn types by planet and location can be found from the following sections:
Dynamic World SpawnsThese are lairs, creatures and npcs that spawn around the game world using a complex seeding process involving a number of variables such as:
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