Hi Gabe,

It looks like MONSTER 000 000 000 gives you the exact range you ask
for. If a monster summons another monster, it also gives you the
exact range. If you encounter a monster randomly, it seems to give
you 10-max, randomly. So far 20 ft, 30 ft and 70 ft give you shorter
ranges. I do not know if it is evenly weighted between all possible
distances or heavily favored towards the range you ask for. I know
number of monster groups appearing is heavily weighted towards 1
group.

I have not tried 40 ft, 50 ft or 60 ft.

-NEFTF


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Msg#2374 Re: DB2ACK: Range in MONSTERS.TXT

--- In DragonBaneII@yahoogroups.com, "Gabe Dalbec" <gabe@m...> wrote:
>
> From looking at the code, it seems that it should be exactly the
range you ask for. Before I looked, I thought it was 10-max
randomly, but it looks like it should just be max. Is it only
affecting 70' range monsters, or do 50 and 60 etc range sometimes
appear closer too?
>
> -Gabe
>
> > ------------Original Message------------
> > From: "neftf" <Cyb0Au0Dragon215@A...>
> > To: DragonBaneII@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Fri, Nov-21-2003 2:37 PM
> > Subject: [DragonBaneII] DB2ACK: Range in MONSTERS.TXT
> >
> > Dear Forum,
> >
> > In the file MONSTERS.TXT the range can be from 1 to 7. However,
I
> > keep having creatures with a range of 70 feet appearing closer.
Is
> > the randomness evenly weighted, or is there a certain chance that
the
> > creature will be closer than it's default range.
> >
> > -NEFTF

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