{"id":1542,"date":"2010-09-21T23:24:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2010-09-21T23:24:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T12:24:45","slug":"mauled-by-a-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/09\/21\/mauled-by-a-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauled by a bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MauledByABear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1543\" title=\"MauledByABear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MauledByABear-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MauledByABear-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MauledByABear-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MauledByABear.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The very first time I&#8217;ve entered into combat and actually been chased and attacked by a monster. \u00a0It actually feels really different to do this yourself, rather than having AI subscribers doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, monsters won&#8217;t attack you until you come within 10 meters of them. \u00a0This feels way, way too close. \u00a0I thought that I had a bug in the &#8220;consider attacking a player-controlled PC&#8221; code at first, before I tried coming a whole lot closer. \u00a0In retrospect, many MMORPGs consider melee range to be 5 meters &#8212; from that point of view, being invisible to monsters at a distance of 10 meters seems kind of silly. \u00a0I&#8217;ll probably need to increase this &#8220;monster aggression&#8221; distance to 30-40 meters, and vastly increase the size of grinding areas, so that monsters are much more spaced out, to compensate for their increased visual range.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, combat feels really slow. \u00a0Right now, monsters (and AI PCs) currently attack once per second. \u00a0It seems a little odd that this feels slow to me; most MMOs I&#8217;ve played haven&#8217;t had you activating attacks much more frequently than once per second, I think? \u00a0Maybe it&#8217;s the lack of animations that&#8217;s hurting the general feeling, here. \u00a0(Please, anyone, feel free to correct me on this impression in the comments &#8212; I really don&#8217;t want to delve into WoW again just to measure attack timings. \u00a0:) )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first time I&#8217;ve entered into combat and actually been chased and attacked by a monster. \u00a0It actually feels really different to do this yourself, rather than having AI subscribers doing it. Thoughts: Currently, monsters won&#8217;t attack you until you come within 10 meters of them. \u00a0This feels way, way too close. \u00a0I thought&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-oS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}