Dungeon difficulty

[Drake11]

Here is what I am doing: creating a large dungeon with mltiple boss encounters requiring a group of people to complete. I have most of the boss encounters done so far, just needs testing and a little fine tuning. I had this thought that perhaps one could alter the difficulty of the dungeon by giving a better loot table should fewer people kill the boss. I do not know if this is possible, but I believe it to be, and curious if anyone has seen it done, done it, or perhaps have been looking to attempt the same thing?

Basic example: Boss A is killed by a group of 8 players, the boss checks combatants maybe? and finds more than 5 players and rewards them with a loot table. The same boss, is killed with 5 players in another group, the boss does the check before it dies, finds only 5 players, then rewards them with an improved loot table based on the fact that the group only had 5 members.

I have not begun to really explore this option yet as I'm still finishing up boss encounters (making them do exactly what I want can be complicated lol).

 

[tass23]

Back on OSI, when a group would battle a Peerless boss and kill it, loot would appear for each individual (based on the damage done I think), then after X amount of time, ALL the loot was available for everyone. I'd say look into that first.

 

[Drake11]

I'm going to look into that now actually... nice tip

 

[MisterGizmo]

If you want to check based on looting rights, can use the code here from the BaseChampion.cs file. With a little modification and passing of BaseCreature that died into some function, shouldn't be to hard to do what your trying to do.

        public override void OnDeath(Container c)
        {
            if (this.Map == Map.Felucca)
            {
                //TODO: Confirm SE change or AoS one too?
                List<DamageStore> rights = BaseCreature.GetLootingRights(this.DamageEntries, this.HitsMax);
                List<Mobile> toGive = new List<Mobile>();

                for (int i = rights.Count - 1; i >= 0; --i)
                {
                    DamageStore ds = rights[i];

                    if (ds.m_HasRight)
                        toGive.Add(ds.m_Mobile);
                }

                if (toGive.Count > 0)
                    toGive[Utility.Random(toGive.Count)].AddToBackpack(new ChampionSkull(this.SkullType));
                else
                    c.DropItem(new ChampionSkull(this.SkullType));
            }

            base.OnDeath(c);
        }

 

[arphile]

Use OnSpawn Function for enhance basecreatures.
Also you need to duplicate maps in MapDefinition.cs to make different difficulty for dungeons.
I made it like this, so all of the dungeons has 2 or 4 difficulty each.