Lairs (Game Mechanics)

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Description Template (Game Messages) Related Tags 0% This document has not been started. Mechanics This document is about game mechanics. Game Mechanics Lair Types Mission Lairs Wild Lairs Invisible Lairs Lair Behavior Types Active Behaviors Passive Behaviors Parts of a Lair Creature Type Selection Spawn Size Condition Boss Spawns There are three types of lairs, mission lairs, wild lairs and invisible lairs. Mission lairs are lairs that are spawned into the game world through the acquisition of a mission. These are identified by having specific names given to the lair such as "a quenker lair" or "a hurton pack lair." Wild lairs are lairs that spawn naturally in the game world and are usually indistinguishable from one another with names such as "a pile of leaves" or "a pile of rocks." Invisible lairs are what is more commonly known as spawn points where groupings of creatures will be created at without a physical lair to defend. There is a maximum number of creatures that any lair spawns. This set of critters is called a "wave". I will define the "wave amount" as this maximum number. The number of critters you see when you first encounter the lair is this "wave amount". This set of critters is the initial wave. Creatures are stored inside of a lair and will spawn out into the game world based on what type of lair behavior is occuring. The 2 types of behavior for a lair are Active and Passive. Most are acquainted with Active behavior. If you hit a lair, critters will pop out. During active behavior, the initial creature to spawn from the lair after it has been hit will take 10 seconds. After this creature spawns, a new creature will appear every 15 seconds until the wave amount has been reached. Both mission lairs and wild lairs allow for the active behavior to occur. Passive behavior is seen only in invisible lairs and wild lairs and can be thought of as spawning creatures that are kept in a hidden reserve. Each creature in in the initial wave of a wild or invisible lair has 3 replacements kept in queue. Whenever a creature is killed, its replacement is automatically set to spawn based on a 3 minute timer. This can be observed on the NGE where if a player kills the entire initial spawn, each mob killed will have its replacement spawned exactly 3 minutes after the previous creature died. In the case of invisible lair; if a player singles out one enemy in a spawn to kill 4 times in a row (the initial wave and the 3 replacements) the spawn will despawn after the other remaining mobs are killed since the server thinks that 4 waves have been killed as all 3 replacements and the initial spawn for that particular mob were used up. The parts of a lair Creature Type Selection Spawn Size Condition Boss Spawns The creatures that spawn at lairs are dependant on creature family tables. Creature family tables are unique categorizations of creatures and npcs organized to produce a more diverse game world environment. Each type of lair gets its source from this system. In this system combinations of creatures such as Hurtons, Hurton matrons and Hurton pups come together to form a creature family table which can then be added to the world spawner which will allow these creatures to spawn together as part of a lair in the wild or on the mission terminal to be picked by a player and later spawned. The importance of being aware of creature type categories is that all missions exist as creature family tables but all creature family tables dont necessarily end up as missions. Some creature groupings are wild or invisible lair spawns only and are not available to players as missions and not all wild spawns are available as lairs. For example Grauls and ancient grauls are wild and invisible lair spawns only. Part III: Summary If you do it right, you should see the following yields: Mission Lair: Initial wave + 2 Active waves = 3 x wave amount. Invisible Lair: Initial wave + 3 Passive waves = 4 x wave amount. Natural Lair: Initial wave + 2 Active waves + 3 passive = 6 x wave amount. Wave amounts I can verify: 6: Have seen them but cannot verify 5: Durni, Crazed Durni, Paralope, Murra, Tabbage, Krahbu, Violent Krahbu, Slice Hounds, Dire Cats (yes, I have hunted on Corellia a LOT) 4: There are some, but none I can say for certain. I think regular Rancors... but those might also come in wave amounts of 5. 3: Tortons and Ravinous Tortons. Maaaaaaybe Mutant Rancors... or was that another type? Waves amounts of 2 and 1 exist, I cannot be certain which, however. Conclusion on wave amounts: they seem to be a function of difficulty level. Safe hunting out there and remember n00bs: DON'T HIT THE LAIR IF CRITTERS ARE OUT Source References Source Source in Context