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TwistThu 12-Dec-13 12:35 PM
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#62, "December 12 - Question from crsweeney re: "mobchutes""


          

I dont think these are all that common in CF, the academy being the place I'm certain they are used but I always liked these in ROM. Might be helpful to players to know about this and/or how they are used in CF?

Originally mobchutes were noentrance rooms which contained one way exits to multiple locations in an area. Mobs that wandered would be spawned in this room, then randomly wander out into the area through one of the exits of the room. This would let an area have wandering guards that popped up without the area getting a full reset, keeps players on their toes.


I'm pretty sure we don't have these at all. Not even in the Academy.

The Academy, however, is set to have a really super-fast repop time. I don't know the specific mechanics of it, but I believe it simply ignores any PC's in the area and repops every 2 ticks, unlike other areas.

For mobs that need to get "popped up" and keep players on their toes, we use area progs. You see mobs like this a lot in places like the Open Plains (damn falcons) and the Sands of Sorrow (chaos runners). These can be especially useful to some people who are working on skills at lower levels, which is why you see so much PK action between level 11 and 17-ish in the maze rooms on the way to Barovia - mist wraiths are generated by a prog (up to 3 of them).

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AncientNewbieThu 12-Dec-13 01:40 PM
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#63, "RE: December 12 - Question from crsweeney re:"
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Where do the demons in the loch fall into this? They appear more often than the repop, but don't always appear in the room you are in (as seems to be the case with most area progs).

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TwistFri 13-Dec-13 12:30 PM
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#64, "Demons at Loch Grymnear"
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>Where do the demons in the loch fall into this? They appear
>more often than the repop, but don't always appear in the room
>you are in (as seems to be the case with most area progs).
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>Side note, I'm loving all these posts. Thanks for doing it!

Thanks!

As for your question, I don't know precisely how the demons operate. The few I've looked at to try to respond to your question don't seem to have a prog on them. I guess I haven't personally notice them appearing more often than a repop, but if they do, it is likely a similar area prog that loads them into either a random room or a set room.

  

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