Fast Monsters

[Mickey Kudlo]

I want some monsters to be fast but I realize they might be too fast.

The issue is people running past monsters to get through quests and not dealing with the "monster" obstacle.
So, I want monsters to actually keep up with players and ... stop them or challenge them.

So, what is a nerd programmer to do?

[King Dravien]

I want some monsters to be fast but I realize they might be too fast.

The issue is people running past monsters to get through quests and not dealing with the "monster" obstacle.
So, I want monsters to actually keep up with players and ... stop them or challenge them.

So, what is a nerd programmer to do?

You say you dont want people to run through quests, so why not make just monsters on specific quest land faster? and the others go back to normal, i agree Drakes/Psycho bunnys should be fast, maybe the Damon golem.

or make it so you have to kill all monsters in the room for the door to open in the quest, no more keys

[Miner 49er]

A) Have the monsters cast spells that'll slow down player, probably wont work
B) Increase chasing range
C) Roll a 14 sided dice and hope the answer comes to you

[King Dravien]

A) Have the monsters cast spells that'll slow down player, probably wont work
B) Increase chasing range
C) Roll a 14 sided dice and hope the answer comes to you

A: Monsters have ice spell - most of them
B: They chase until you kill them or they kill you.
C : What?

[The Muffin Man]

All I have to say is... tiger psycho bunnies.

[Rokhan]

A) Have the monsters cast spells that'll slow down player, probably wont work
B) Increase chasing range
C) Roll a 14 sided dice and hope the answer comes to you

A) Like Drav said ice
B) Ditto Dravien
C) Can I buy that dice?


Mickey like Drav said, certain monsters should be fast. Psycho Bunnies, Drakes and the damon Golem are a definite. Big stuff like golems should be slower because of their relative size.

Quest wise just copy a monster image and name data then just add a speed difference or make so ALL monsters in a room have to be killed per spawn for a key to drop

[StormyNight]

Give every monster Ice!

"Fire Drake casts ice on you for 4 ICE"

o_o

[Axeman]

Last I checked, ice ≠ slow.  Two different ideas, one freezes, and the other slows.

Running through quests is fixed by making people think about them.  Quests shouldn't even be so much about monsters, other than providing a slight obstacle as much as thinking about what you're doing/should be doing to advance.

[Mickey Kudlo]

Well, since I added floor spikes, there has been obstacles that you need to stop and think about. Like in the Orc fort and the Golem temple.

I could tie a group of monsters to a key drop, I guess. Or block the way through with monsters. I could also once you are spotted, they chase longer like when you attack them they chase longer. That might be the easiest solution.

[Rokhan]

Yeah, thats alot better then titanium golems moving about 5 spaces in one go...

[Pirate Wings]

I guess this is as close as rpgwo could get to elite type monsters. I've always thought rpgwo monsters were dumb when it comes to agro since it's easy to get rid of hate. There was monsters where you hit them and you got 8X sorrounded and + mob effect = 150 attack killing 400 def people and then something higher leveled spawned which made you run away. There needs to be a bit of thought to aproaching monsters. As it is now depending on a variety of things they still will either cause high amount of damage or death, or you evade their attacks entirely. The faster monsters make this happen slower or faster + more stam lost.

[StormyNight]

All my quests had a group of things that had to be done. Run from 10,10 get a key go to 5,5 talk to a guy then go to the temple..


Traps with itemmove, fire, moving walls. walls that = monsters etc.

It's all about outsmarting the player


Minus my training rooms... hehehe...

[chronolink]

Well MR Miner49er, listen well

NO ONE likes RNG

[Jon The Great]

What about just making quests area's player's run all the same. So no matter how high your run is inside a quest you are all the same speed. So players have to face the monsters and can't just run though. Also helps make quests longer and item's a little bit more rare if there are drops.

[Kaios]

Bad idea of the millenium goes to Jon.

[Rokhan]

What about just making quests area's player's run all the same. So no matter how high your run is inside a quest you are all the same speed. So players have to face the monsters and can't just run though. Also helps make quests longer and item's a little bit more rare if there are drops.

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