HAM Bar (Game Mechanics)

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Description Template (Game Messages) Related Tags 25% This document has been partially completed. Mechanics This document is about game mechanics. Game Mechanics Players, Npcs and Creatures have three bars representing their Health, Action, and Mind pool. When you target something, its name and HAM bar will appear in your heads up display, as well as over the target's head. Red represents the Health pool, green represents the Action pool, and blue represents the Mind pool. When you deal damage to a target through combat, you will notice that its Health, Action, and Mind pools deplete, based upon the amount and type of damage dealt. This can be seen in the HAM bar by a shortening of the colored bar that represents the pool that was depleted. When any one of the three pools is completely depleted, the remainder of the colored bar will disappear and the target will die if it as npc or creature or become incapacitated if is a player. Damage received by and done to targets is displayed in flytext over the character/npc's head. The damage hit location is also displayed. Both the hit location and damage amount done are color coded to display the ham bar(s) that were affected by the attacks. The health, action and mind values of a target can be viewed by clicking on the target window and hovering the mouse over on a particular ham bar. The bar will read out the current and maximum value on that particular target's selected ham pool. For example a healthy target with 100,000 health will display "100000/100000 (100000) "where as a damaged target that has lost 50,000 health will display "50000/100000. (100000)" A wounded target with damage to its ham pool will display the current min and max of the health bar due to the wounds suffered, along with the maximum possible value that was available to the health bar before wounds took place. A target with 50,000 damage and 10,000 wounds to the health bar would display "50000/90000 (100000)" An npc or creature's ham pool bar sizes are randomly set within a set range per each ham bar upon spawning. Each npc and creature has a base value for a particular pool and that value is modified randomly within a range of 0-25% of the base value. For example a target with 100,000 base ham will have its pool size between a range of 100,000 and 125,000. Each pool is randomized in this manner so that in most cases no two pools will ever be alike. Source References Source Source in Context