Diablo III Warcraft Beta v1.19b

Darkholme · Jun 6, 2009

Not a bad Idea. I fixed the glitch. Apparently your script crashes if you use it on a non-player slot, like players 7 and 8. XD

Anyways, Presently all of the systems I set up seem to be working, though I only found three bosses to change the numbers to % for. If there are more of them, I need to know what they are.

For 1.18, Here's what I've done - For the hive community.
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Revised Mana Regen System, which gives the barbarian a Rage pool that drains over time.
Fixed some issues with the barbarian which make mana potions much better than they are for any other class (due to the smaller scale of rage and smaller ability costs in older versions)
Players now get full hp & mp at levelup like in Diablo Games. It also plays the diablo levelup noise.
Difficulty System. Automatically scales the map and difficulty based on the number of players. The numbers are better than in the old version where they seemed improvised, and red can now (like in Diablo II) type in '/players x'(1-6) to play the game on a higher difficulty setting. any player can type '/players count' to count the total number of players in the game. Just in case they're curious how many people have left the game.
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I plan on making players with game overs be not-counted, but I personally hate the life-count system, and think we need a different death system. Possibly drag the player to the start of the area, and make them go back for their body like in Diablo i & ii.

- How are you guys doing on your sections? Does inventory work? Maybe some boss revisions? Did someone fix the issue with potions?
- Do we want the diablo noises for the potions?
- Is the techtree system started?
- The Item Pickup System?

Also, I can't make new threads in the D3 board... (http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/diablo-iii-warcraft-606/)

As for the spawn system, basically I have to design a system with
-Trigger Points
-Spawn Points
Both will be the rectangular regions.
Trigger Point Properties
- Difficulty
Will determine how many of the monster to spawn, based on monster difficulty
- Types
A list of possible encounters for this location each encounter will have some collection of monsters. It'll randomly pick which encounter type, then generate the monsters for it to match the difficulty above.

Encounters will also include rares and bosses.
- Rares will be tougher versions of the monsters
- Bosses will be named, and can only spawn once per map.
*This is all just planning and explaining my intentions. As I havent started on this system yet, things could change.

redmarine · Jun 6, 2009

I'm currently going to study for an upcoming exams so I won't really be able to do much for the next two-three weeks.

Super-Sheep · Jun 6, 2009

Dont you people have a summer holiday?

hunalexnl · Jun 6, 2009

Super-Sheep said:
Dont you people have a summer holiday?

In Hungary, for example, we are having the oral part of the matura in 2 weeks... So I should be studying too, but I can't!!! (too lazy)

Coming back to the map, why do you guys wanna add a command that counts the number of players in the game? People can simply click the Allies (or whatever its name is) button... It's easier than typing in the whole command for it, imho.

redmarine · Jun 6, 2009

Super-Sheep said:
Dont you people have a summer holiday?

School and this project are my top priority at the moment well... I prioritize this map a bit above school but I'm doing well so it's not a problem.

hunalexnl said:
In Hungary, for example, we are having the oral part of the matura in 2 weeks... So I should be studying too, but I can't!!! (too lazy)

Coming back to the map, why do you guys wanna add a command that counts the number of players in the game? People can simply click the Allies (or whatever its name is) button... It's easier than typing in the whole command for it, imho.

Basically when we store the amount of players in the map into a trigger we can use it to determinate which trigger to run. If there are 2 players then run Trigger[2] etc. This allows for an efficient difficult system.

hunalexnl · Jun 6, 2009

redmarine said:
School and this project are my top priority at the moment well... I prioritize this map a bit above school but I'm doing well so it's not a problem.

Basically when we store the amount of players in the map into a trigger we can use it to determinate which trigger to run. If there are 2 players then run Trigger[2] etc. This allows for an efficient difficult system.

Oh that's not what I meant. I understand this part. I was talking about the command that allows players to type in /players count (or something like that) and it displays them the number of players in the game.
The counter for the trigger is really important, of course, but this extra that Darkholme mentioned is not much of a use I'm afraid.

redmarine · Jun 6, 2009

hunalexnl said:
Oh that's not what I meant. I understand this part. I was talking about the command that allows players to type in /players count (or something like that) and it displays them the number of players in the game.
The counter for the trigger is really important, of course, but this extra that Darkholme mentioned is not much of a use I'm afraid.

It's not but that isn't much a problem either. So far the system looks great.

redmarine · Jun 6, 2009

I've figured out a more efficient way of auto adjusting the difficulty once a player leaves.

AutoAdjust
- Events
  - Player - Player 1 (Red) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 2 (Blue) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 3 (Teal) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 4 (Purple) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 5 (Yellow) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 6 (Orange) leaves the game
- Conditions
- Actions
  - If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
    - If - Conditions
      - NumberOfPlayers Equal to 6
    - Then - Actions
      - Trigger - Run Players 6 <gen> (ignoring conditions)
    - Else - Actions
      - If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        
        If - Conditions
        
        NumberOfPlayers Equal to 5
        
        Then - Actions
        
        Trigger - Run Players 5 <gen> (ignoring conditions)
        
        Else - Actions
        
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        
        If - Conditions
        
        NumberOfPlayers Equal to 4
        
        Then - Actions
        
        Trigger - Run Players 4 <gen> (ignoring conditions)
        
        Else - Actions
        
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        
        If - Conditions
        
        NumberOfPlayers Equal to 3
        
        Then - Actions
        
        Trigger - Run Players 3 <gen> (ignoring conditions)
        
        Else - Actions
        
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        
        If - Conditions
        
        NumberOfPlayers Equal to 2
        
        Then - Actions
        
        Trigger - Run Players 2 <gen> (ignoring conditions)
        
        Else - Actions
        
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        
        If - Conditions
        
        NumberOfPlayers Equal to 1
        
        Then - Actions
        
        Trigger - Run Players 1 <gen> (ignoring conditions)
        
        Else - Actions
        
        Game - Display to (All players) the text: Players Difficulty ...

As you can see your trigger adjusts according to the player that leaves. If there are only two players in the game and the second player is 6 and he leaves then the game would become dramatically hard.

This solution is the way to go as this is handles all the difficulty adjustments.

AutoAdjustNumberPlayer
- Events
  - Map initialization
  - Player - Player 1 (Red) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 2 (Blue) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 3 (Teal) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 4 (Purple) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 5 (Yellow) leaves the game
  - Player - Player 6 (Orange) leaves the game
- Conditions
- Actions
  - Set SetDifficulty[1] = Players 1 <gen>
  - Set SetDifficulty[2] = Players 2 <gen>
  - Set SetDifficulty[3] = Players 3 <gen>
  - Set SetDifficulty[4] = Players 4 <gen>
  - Set SetDifficulty[5] = Players 5 <gen>
  - Set SetDifficulty[6] = Players 6 <gen>
  - Set NumberOfPlayers = 0
  - For each (Integer A) from 1 to 6, do (Actions)
    - Loop - Actions
      - If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        
        If - Conditions
        
        ((Player((Integer A))) slot status) Equal to Is playing
        
        Then - Actions
        
        Set NumberOfPlayers = (NumberOfPlayers + 1)
        
        Else - Actions
  - Trigger - Run SetDifficulty[NumberOfPlayers] (checking conditions)

Darkholme · Jun 6, 2009

Mine presently does that same thing, but its more modular. I think I may use a hybrid between yours and mine.

redmarine · Jun 6, 2009

Darkholme said:
Mine presently does that same thing, but its more modular. I think I may use a hybrid between yours and mine.

Well, my version has 2 functions. The first one is to adjust the difficulty at the beginning of the map by the amount of palyers playing. The second is to adjust the game after a player has left.

Basically if my version would be accepted we could get rid of all of the extra triggers you've created. I don't think players should be able to decide the difficulty themselves(perhaps normal, nightmare and hell).

There will only be 8 triggers:

AutoAdjustNumberPlayer
PlayerDifficulty
Player 1
Player 2
Player 3
Player 4
Player 5
Player 6

thedeathunterxx · Jun 6, 2009

wow shit. that video kicks ass ...lets see what its like when i play it =)

Darkholme · Jun 6, 2009

It works in Diablo, that's why I added the option to up the difficulty via the "/players" commands.

I used your system, which makes the script look nicer, and made things less redundant. I kept the commands though. Playercount now fires more often (added events for when a player's lumber changes), and takes into account when a player has a game-over.

As for getting rid of functions, it only gets rid of one function really, maybe 2, and only if you drop the difficulty settings, unless you want to copy and past a bunch of code to like 6 places, in which case it would get rid of 2 but would be more sloppy.

Open up diablo II, type in '/players 8'. The game will spawn dungeons as though there were 8 players, and you'll get the xp to match. You can play it with a harder difficulty quite easily. That's the purpose of adding them into this map.

I also tweaked the mana system to have a multiplier so you can speed up, slow down , or halt the mana regeneration easily from other triggers.

jawawaQ · Jun 7, 2009

The items DROPS are somewhat bias...

You get Barbarian items early while the Weaker Class like WIZARD/WITCHDOCTOR gets their items mid-late game.

gunggang777 · Jun 7, 2009

hey great map....

can you make model? don't only editing skin :smile:

Darkholme · Jun 7, 2009

hmm. I'll talk to the guys about the drops. I think it's random though. But I didnt do the drop system, so maybe it depends on what youre fighting too.

maxyall · Jun 7, 2009

Rate Comment

It's very good for beta and the land scape is scenery. good but it's too short. the size of file is 4700+ and if it reach 5000, it's will be no longer playable in multiplayer. so if you gonna make further, you must stop importing more model to make it playable. Overall is great and hope you'll make it.

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

maxyall said:
It's very good for beta and the land scape is scenery. good but it's too short. the size of file is 4700+ and if it reach 5000, it's will be no longer playable in multiplayer. so if you gonna make further, you must stop importing more model to make it playable. Overall is great and hope you'll make it.

Correction, the map is 3.4 MB. When a map reaches 4.1 MB it's rendered useless for multiplayer including LAN.

We're well aware of the filesize limitation and so far we've done everything we could to keep it as small as possible.

Super-Sheep · Jun 7, 2009

The limit is 4.0 BM afaik... So the playable limit is 3.9 MB.

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

Super-Sheep said:
The limit is 4.0 BM afaik... So the playable limit is 3.9 MB.

Isn't it approx 4.090 MB?

Super-Sheep · Jun 7, 2009

I have seen many maps with 3.9, but none with 4.0.

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

Super-Sheep said:
I have seen many maps with 3.9, but none with 4.0.

Would be nice if we could get a confirmation on this.

Anachron · Jun 7, 2009

Just one hint. The A player leaves event does not work proberly, it fails in 1 of 1000 times because of warcraft 3 scripting. I recomment checking the player slot status and see the changes ingame periodicly. But if you don't care about those small issues, you can just let it as it is now.

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

Anachron said:
Just one hint. The A player leaves event does not work proberly, it fails in 1 of 1000 times because of warcraft 3 scripting. I recomment checking the player slot status and see the changes ingame periodicly. But if you don't care about those small issues, you can just let it as it is now.

Then we could try to use a periodic timer of some sort. It's not like it drains that much resources.

hunalexnl · Jun 7, 2009

redmarine said:
Then we could try to use a periodic timer of some sort. It's not like it drains that much resources.

Doesn't periodic checking make the game lag at some point? Or is it ONLY if the period is set too small - like 0.01 seconds?

And why does this stuff say the thread has 171 pages if we're only on 169!!!

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

hunalexnl said:
Doesn't periodic checking make the game lag at some point? Or is it ONLY if the period is set too small - like 0.01 seconds?

And why does this stuff say the thread has 171 pages if we're only on 169!!!

Thread break.

Anyway, it'll only lag if the function it is supposed to execute is too resource hoggy. Small systems ain't a problem like the one we could be using.

saphiree · Jun 7, 2009

Hmm guys, i have a BIG question. We've been waiting for AGES on v1.18 now. Can you tell in how many weeks we can expect it to be here? Cus we made this an arranged game in my clan, and we would really like to play it with the inventory system, and more balancing and so

Another note. Many said this map was almost impossible if you were more than 3 persons playing. I dont really understand why. I played it with 5 (including me) And found it quite easy. There was only one guy which ended up running out of lives.

hunalexnl · Jun 7, 2009

And I have a BIG problem. Out of 5 games, I've had 5 blue screens. How come?

saphiree · Jun 7, 2009

Thats probably your computer. I havent had any issues with it. Its either your comp or warcraft which doesent work.

CloudWolf · Jun 7, 2009

saphiree said:
Hmm guys, i have a BIG question. We've been waiting for AGES on v1.18 now. Can you tell in how many weeks we can expect it to be here? Cus we made this an arranged game in my clan, and we would really like to play it with the inventory system, and more balancing and so

Another note. Many said this map was almost impossible if you were more than 3 persons playing. I dont really understand why. I played it with 5 (including me) And found it quite easy. There was only one guy which ended up running out of lives.

I know what you mean xD Things have been rather hectic recently

Ive had coursework deadlines and exams for my university course which kinda take priority over my hobbies

lol

unlike previous updates, v1.18 contains a huge number of changes, all of which have required constant testing and fixing to get them right xD We're still experiencing some trouble with the new inventory as well which hasnt helped :S Many of the lesser item slots (such as belts, boots and necklaces) all share the "charged" item group, and theres been a few problems with the custom values to make it all work xD

However! The main item-types such as weapons, shields, chest armour, helmets etc work perfectly

So if it takes us too long, v1.18 will be just be released without the items that dont work as I can imagine people are quite tired of waiting

Trust me though, v1.18 looks almost completely different from the previous versions

We've put all the extra time we've had to good use

hunalexnl said:
And I have a BIG problem. Out of 5 games, I've had 5 blue screens. How come?

As far as I know, your the only person to ever experience that bug :S Does it happen with any warcraft map? or just this one?

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

The new news batch is up! Check it out.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/latest-updates-and-news-101/june-2009-news-batch-130725/

Anyway, I'm going to work on the camera system now.

hunalexnl · Jun 7, 2009

CloudWolf said:
I know what you mean xD Things have been rather hectic recently Ive had coursework deadlines and exams for my university course which kinda take priority over my hobbies lol

unlike previous updates, v1.18 contains a huge number of changes, all of which have required constant testing and fixing to get them right xD We're still experiencing some trouble with the new inventory as well which hasnt helped :S Many of the lesser item slots (such as belts, boots and necklaces) all share the "charged" item group, and theres been a few problems with the custom values to make it all work xD

However! The main item-types such as weapons, shields, chest armour, helmets etc work perfectly So if it takes us too long, v1.18 will be just be released without the items that dont work as I can imagine people are quite tired of waiting

Trust me though, v1.18 looks almost completely different from the previous versions We've put all the extra time we've had to good use

As far as I know, your the only person to ever experience that bug :S Does it happen with any warcraft map? or just this one?

Only this one... And I haven't even been playing it for too long, I'm getting these crashes somewhere after the blue Abomination boss...
I've been playing other maps for longer times, and still haven't had any crashes there. It might be a combination of the large size + Warcraft + PC... Dunno, but it sure IS sad that I cannot play this map.

CloudWolf · Jun 7, 2009

hunalexnl said:
Only this one... And I haven't even been playing it for too long, I'm getting these crashes somewhere after the blue Abomination boss...
I've been playing other maps for longer times, and still haven't had any crashes there. It might be a combination of the large size + Warcraft + PC... Dunno, but it sure IS sad that I cannot play this map.

Hmmm... well, I'll take a look either way just to be sure

You never know, v1.18 might work for you when its released xD PC's have a habbit of fixing themselves for no apparent reason

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

CloudWolf said:
Hmmm... well, I'll take a look either way just to be sure

You never know, v1.18 might work for you when its released xD PC's have a habbit of fixing themselves for no apparent reason

Did you fix the share hero icon selection thingy and the inventory bug for player 3?

I'm making some progress on making a replacement for the current camera system.

hunalexnl · Jun 7, 2009

CloudWolf said:
Hmmm... well, I'll take a look either way just to be sure

You never know, v1.18 might work for you when its released xD PC's have a habbit of fixing themselves for no apparent reason

Well mine has a habit of the opposite, but I hope you are right.

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

Here is a fix for the camera system and I've also attached the triggers to this post.

To fix it just copy all the changes in this new updated "Inventory Camera" trigger over to the old "Inventory Camera".

Inventory Camera
- Events
  - Time - Inventory_Camera_Test expires
- Conditions
- Actions
  - For each (Integer A) from 1 to 6, do (Actions)
    - Loop - Actions
      - If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        
        If - Conditions
        
        Inventory_Player_Is_Viewing[(Integer A)] Equal to True
        
        Then - Actions
        
        Camera - Apply Inventory_Camera[(Integer A)] for (Player((Integer A))) over 0.01 seconds
        
        Else - Actions
        
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        
        If - Conditions
        
        Heroes[(Integer A)] Not equal to No unit
        
        Then - Actions
        
        Set rect = (Position of Heroes[(Integer A)])
        
        Camera - Pan camera for (Player((Integer A))) to rect over 0.01 seconds
        
        Camera - Set (Player((Integer A)))'s camera Distance to target to 1850.00 over 0.01 seconds
        
        Camera - Set (Player((Integer A)))'s camera Angle of attack to 315.00 over 0.01 seconds
        
        Camera - Set (Player((Integer A)))'s camera Rotation to 140.00 over 0.01 seconds
        
        Custom script: set udg_z = GetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ZOFFSET)+300 - (256- GetLocationZ(udg_rect))-GetCameraTargetPositionZ()
        
        Camera - Set (Player((Integer A)))'s camera Height Offset to z over 0.01 seconds
        
        Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_rect)
        
        Else - Actions
  - Countdown Timer - Start Inventory_Camera_Test as a One-shot timer that will expire in 0.01 seconds

To make it work fully just disable some part of CamLock by replacing the entire code with this one:

JASS:

scope Camlock initializer InitTrig

globals
    trigger CamLock
    integer INDEX = 0
    boolean array DEAD
    unit array HERO
    player array PLAYERS
    integer array IND
    location LOC
endglobals

private function Actions takes nothing returns nothing
//local integer index = 0
//local real x
//local real y
//local real z

//loop
    //exitwhen index == INDEX
    //set x = GetUnitX(HERO[index])
    //set y = GetUnitY(HERO[index])
    //call MoveLocation(LOC,x,y)

    //if GetLocalPlayer() == PLAYERS[index] then
        //if udg_Inventory_Player_Is_Viewing[index] == false then

            //if DEAD[index] == false then
            //set z = GetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ZOFFSET)+300 - (256- GetLocationZ(LOC))-GetCameraTargetPositionZ()
            //call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ZOFFSET,z,1.0)
            //call SetCameraPosition(x,y)
            //call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_TARGET_DISTANCE,1850,0.1)
            //call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ANGLE_OF_ATTACK,315,0.1)
            //call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ROTATION,140,0.1)

            //endif
        //endif
    //endif
    //set index = index + 1
//endloop
endfunction

private function InitTrig takes nothing returns nothing
    set CamLock = CreateTrigger()
    set LOC = Location(0,0)
    set DEAD[0] = false
    set DEAD[1] = false
    set DEAD[2] = false
    set DEAD[3] = false
    set DEAD[4] = false
    set DEAD[5] = false
call TriggerRegisterTimerEvent(CamLock,0.017,true)
call TriggerAddAction(CamLock, function Actions)
endfunction


endscope

Craka_J · Jun 7, 2009

I've played this a few times online and the main complaint is that there aren't enough mana orb drops. I suggest you change that. :wink:

saphiree · Jun 7, 2009

Later on you dont really need mana drops. Witch Doctor can drain mana with a spell, and wizards have an abillity for it. Barbarian doesent even use mana at a normal way.
So if you just choose the right spells, then you should do okay.

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

Darkholm, you system causes boss problems. You should reconsider to add the triggers' events(e.g. health things) once the players encounter the bosses.

NisNamanArhat · Jun 7, 2009

Hey you guys should put in custom music; I think it'll greatly to the mood of the game.

hunalexnl · Jun 7, 2009

CloudWolf said:
Hmmm... well, I'll take a look either way just to be sure

You never know, v1.18 might work for you when its released xD PC's have a habbit of fixing themselves for no apparent reason

Forget it, it just crashed with another map. Damn this PC...

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

hunalexnl said:
Forget it, it just crashed with another map. Damn this PC...

What operative system are you using and is it fully updated? What about the hardware? Have you ever tried to clean up your registered as well as defragmented?

Btw, if you got a computer capable of running Vista you could install Windows 7 RC for free for a year.

hunalexnl · Jun 7, 2009

redmarine said:
What operative system are you using and is it fully updated? What about the hardware? Have you ever tried to clean up your registered as well as defragmented?

Btw, if you got a computer capable of running Vista you could install Windows 7 RC for free for a year.

Thanks for the help but the PC has other problems as well, although it was reinstalled a few weeks ago. I've been having problems with it since I got it and we'll bring it back to the person who sold it in the next few days. I'll get either a new one that is worth the price my mother paid, or they fix it. Hope to be able to play the map till the end afterwards!

Darkholme · Jun 7, 2009

redmarine said:
Darkholm, you system causes boss problems. You should reconsider to add the triggers' events(e.g. health things) once the players encounter the bosses.

1. I know it does, I said I need to work on it. (and in fact am doing so right now)
2. "You should reconsider to add the triggers' events(e.g. health things) once the players encounter the bosses." I have no idea what you are suggesting. What are you talking about? lol
3. How do you put GUI in the forum, and how do you get it from the forum back into WE without rebuilding a script from scratch that just happens to look the same?
4. The old difficulty system used the same method of scaling (I just tweaked the numbers to match the number of players), so I don't know how the boss issues didn't come up before.
5. My name has an 'E' at the end.

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

Darkholme said:
1. I know it does, I said I need to work on it. (and in fact am doing so right now)

'
Nice to know.

Darkholme said:
2. "You should reconsider to add the triggers' events(e.g. health things) once the players encounter the bosses." I have no idea what you are suggesting. What are you talking about? lol

Basically I was implying that we could add the triggers' events into the triggers with actions once the difficulty has been assigned. This could perhaps fix some problems.

Darkholme said:
3. How do you put GUI in the forum, and how do you get it from the forum back into WE without rebuilding a script from scratch that just happens to look the same?

Try clicking on this button:

It does not work the other way around.

Darkholme said:
4. The old difficulty system used the same method of scaling (I just tweaked the numbers to match the number of players), so I don't know how the boss issues didn't come up before.

What do you mean?

Darkholme said:
5. My name has an 'E' at the end.

I'll remember that from now on.

CloudWolf · Jun 7, 2009

Craka_J said:
I've played this a few times online and the main complaint is that there aren't enough mana orb drops. I suggest you change that.

Dont worry, Ive completely re-done the orb drop rates

Ive even added different leveled orbs so that harder units will drop more powerfull orbs just to balance it out a bit

Darkholme · Jun 7, 2009

redmarine said:
Basically I was implying that we could add the triggers' events into the triggers with actions once the difficulty has been assigned. This could perhaps fix some problems.

Hmm. I have a slightly better Idea what youre talking about, but youre being very vague, so im still not quite sure I know what you have in mind. I'll give my Idea a shot and if it doesn't work then we'll revisit this and see how it pans out as well as getting a better explanation of whan you mean.

redmarine said:
Try clicking on this button:

Is the option only available to posts with maps attached?

redmarine said:
What do you mean?

I'm using the player Handicap to do difficulty. The old difficulty system from before used the same method of adjusting difficulty, but had some kindof messy numbers, and it didnt change xp gain for the weakened monsters. There would have been the same sort of glitches with bosses before due to using flat numbers for the events, but because they only scaled boss hp to 50% when there were 1/6th the players instead of 16.67%, the glitches were less noticeable. (the extra boss HP was less noticeable because players were getting 6x the xp they should have been, so bosses were essentially half as difficult as with 6 players, due to the 1 player being like 6 players combined in addition to 50% xp.)

redmarine said:
I'll remember that from now on.

YAY!

{EDIT}
edit: Making sure I dont miss any bosses.

Murloc
Skeleton King
Thousand Pounder

I remember a few more, but can't find the triggers for them.

redmarine · Jun 7, 2009

Darkholme said:
edit: Making sure I dont miss any bosses.

Murloc
Skeleton King
Thousand Pounder

I remember a few more, but can't find the triggers for them.

Siege Breaker.

Btw, you don't need to attach the map to be able to use the trigger wraping. Just paste in your code as text and wrap the trigger wrap around it.

hunalexnl · Jun 7, 2009

CloudWolf said:
Dont worry, Ive completely re-done the orb drop rates Ive even added different leveled orbs so that harder units will drop more powerfull orbs just to balance it out a bit

Just a question, will this "orb" drop stuff depend on difficulty?
If I remember well, you've been doing drops using random numbers... It could be easy to do the drop rate change by modifying the amount of numbers in the scale... Like easy: random number between 1 and 6... Normal: random number between 1 and 8... Hard: random number between 1 and 10... (or an integer variable that is 0 for easy, 2 for normal, 4 for hard and would always be added to 6 or whatever in the random number's last number)
Just a thought, ignore me if I'm being annoying again.

Darkholme · Jun 7, 2009

The Orb drops depend on what you're fighting, the difficulty level has nothing to do with it. IFRC the drop rate for the crappiest ghouls in the map is 1 in 25. I believe it goes up a bit for tougher monsters.

saphiree · Jun 8, 2009

Darkholme said:
It's a WIP. We're all still working on it. It is a huge update

eeeh, WIP? XD it cant be Warry important person can it? haha XD

Anyway, it would be bad with lower drop rates if you played the game on "hard" aka, theres more players in game. I guess the point is already there. There will be more players, that means there should actually be MORE drops ^^

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