Posted by SphereMaker(IMM) on June 7, 2000 at 09:23:44:
In Reply to: Ok, just for the sake of argument..... posted by Drifter on June 6, 2000 at 19:29:50:
> How about implementing a system where only four characters may attack a single target at a time? One for each cardinal direction, maybe 5 if one is flying or swimming.
That could be a short term solution. I'd like to take size into account though, if we were going to bother with something like this. If I took a party of ten to go fight Cthulhu, I'd want assurance that all ten of us could surround his tentacled majesty and fight him at once. If I had ten kobolds fighting a fire giant, I'd want the same assurance.
Boy, that'd mess with the spam-practicers for dodge/parry/etc.
> This proverbial group of 10 spamming bash could not be sure which of their attacks would land, perhaps leading to a non optimal tanking situation. or would this make it to difficult to kill certain quest area mobs?
Quest area mobs could be taken care of. I do like the idea that some players could be in combat but only in a limited capacity ("Damn, when the six of us attacked him, only one out of every eight of my attacks ever got near him!").