{"id":558,"date":"2010-01-12T16:52:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/?p=558"},"modified":"2010-01-15T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:18:50","slug":"forums-gone-and-autoleveling-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/forums-gone-and-autoleveling-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Forums gone and Autoleveling enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del datetime=\"2010-01-15T13:17:39+00:00\">First a quick news: after thinking about it for several weeks, I finally decided to shut down my forums. As you can see, the blog now takes the place of the forums. So the correct URL for the blog is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\">http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve decided to replace the forums with my blog because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the forums were almost empty anyway<\/li>\n<li>the amount of spamming, despite I had tried every possible measure was insane (people spamming manually the forums &#8211; nothing you can do about that)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve decided that I have better things to do with my time, like making new games \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>people can comment and have direct contact with me with the blog anyway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/del><br \/>\nupdate: I reinstalled my forums. Too many sites where linking to specific threads, like the walkthrough ones. So I decided to keep them, but will make them invite only. For direct discussion, better use the blog \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Ok, now about the interesting stuff: I&#8217;ve been thinking to use autoleveling enemies in my upcoming RPG game Planet Stronghold. But what are exactly autoleveling enemies?<br \/>\nYou know in RPGs, you usually start at level 1. You encounter the first enemies, and they&#8217;re usually challenging. But once you raise your level, once you&#8217;re level 10, if you get back to those level 1 enemies, they should be a piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>In my game, I&#8217;m planning to do like this: the enemies will mantain their original challenge rating even if your character\/party levels up. An enemy that was tough at level 1, would still be a good challenge at level 10 (not as tough, but not totally harmless either).<br \/>\nWhy I am thinking to adopt this system? Easy, because this way I can provide a constant challenge to the player. There&#8217;s nothing worse than having a random encounter and say &#8220;oh no, again those stupid easy enemies that will be killed with 1 hit.&#8221;<br \/>\nI am still thinking if to allow the player to choose between auto-leveling on\/off in options for example, and I plan to use a global difficulty level for the game, so those who don&#8217;t like challenging fights don&#8217;t need to worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First a quick news: after thinking about it for several weeks, I finally decided to shut down my forums. As you can see, the blog now takes the place of the forums. So the correct URL for the blog is: http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net. I&#8217;ve decided to replace the forums with my blog because: the forums were almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,26,14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics","category-indie-life","category-planet-stronghold","category-roleplay-games","category-winter-wolves-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}