Ranged spec

[ducci]

Would it ever be practical to have a spec which causes an aggro mob to attack players from an adjacent room with a projectile?

[Everybody]

It could certainly be interesting, but there's a lot of caveats involved in making it work. Firstly, to use the new T reset, it'd need a bunch of projectiles in its inventory, it'd only do it on area tick, and it wouldn't have any good way of separating PC from mob for targeting.

If we build it out as an actual spec, then it goes off on the special timer, but would have to replicate a bunch of throw's code, and intentionally look for PCs (presumably) in adjacent rooms. This is probably harder than it sounds, but not overly difficult as a whole. Principal concern would be that my coding time is currently very limited/sporadic.

[ducci]

Yeah, don’t waste any coding time on it; it’s kind of gimmicky anyway. I imagined it would be some kind of copy/paste of throw and maybe birdseye.