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Debate Respawning threads and hydra

fuzzyeric

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I’ve been thinking about a feasible way to add respawning threads to in-game fora, that

  • can’t be used for cred farming, and
  • can provide a meaningful in-game challenge for level capped characters.

For plain respawners, the idea is that such a thread

  • is worth a bit more cred than normal,
  • is no more difficult than any other thread to kill (each time),
  • respawns a semi-random number of seconds after it is pwned, and must be killed again (with a hysteresis or de-bounce check to make sure it doesn’t respawn before the “go to next thread dialog” is drawn), and
  • awards about (some number)% of its remaining cred each time it is killed.

For example, a respawn thread that happens to be worth 100 cred at this instant, granting 80%/kill will grant 80 cred. If it respawns, it will grant 80% of the remaining cred (80% of 100-80=20 = 16 cred) and so on.

Hydra are similar except that pwned hydra create more than one thread when they respawn (and need not all respawn at the same time) with a similar cred pro-rating scheme for the respawned copies.

This would also lead to the opportunity for additional forms of spiders:

  • respawn finders (perhaps go after the non-respawners first)
  • respawn killers (automatically kills respawns for you, but using your secondary attribute to fuel its attacks)

and abilities:

  • burn (if kills a thread, prevents it having descendants)
  • mirror (attack all respawns simultaneously)

I know this idea isn’t adequately fleshed out for implementing. Currently, I’m looking for first pbumes of “this is obviously broken in manner X”. See any obvious flaws?

Fingerz

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I”m confused?

fuzzyeric

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Fingerz, Does any of it make any sense in any way?

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