Monster Behavior 7.7.md

Shielding formula

• what is the formula??

testing with a goblin doing fixed hit of 70 in real 7.7

skill	    def		max block	balanced	fullattack
10		14		23		12		8
10		19		31		18		11
10		26		43 		24		15
10		35		61		33		20
10		40		70+		38		21
38		14		57		32		21
38		15		63		32		19
38		16		64		37		22
38		17		66		39		25
38		19		70+		44		27

despite of anything I always can get a 70 hit, so it's from 0 to some max block formula

Poison hits

• If the hit is not blocked by shield it can poison, regardless of being blocked by armor or not, if it does damage it will always poison.

Cast chance

• monsters cast less spells while moving?

Dragon stationary trapped, expected number of GFB in 5 minutes (1/7 chance) 42 to 43, got 47.
Dragon kitted never at melee range, expected number of GFB in 10 minutes (1/7 chance) 85 to 86, got 31 to 35.
Dragon blocked at melee range,  expected number of GFB in 10 minutes (1/14 chance) 42 to 43, got 46.
Hunter fleeing moving (only the "fleestep") at a corner, expected number of Arrows in 10 minutes (1/2 chance) 300, got 131.
Hunter fleeing stationary trapped, expected number of Arrows in 15 minutes (1/2 chance) 450, got 146.
Hunter stationary not trapped,  expected number of Arrows in 5 minutes (1/2 chance) 150, got 150.
Hunter kitted never at melee range, expected number of Arrows in 5 minutes (1/2 chance) 150, got 115.

Change target

• If a monster can change target, he is going in a straight line into a target and other player go in the middle, he will target that player instead

Monster have to have sight of a player to pick it as valid target?

• ??

Pick nearest target

• uses manhatan distance? (https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver/commit/bc83c4e5bed96eaeb027b9d2aca75403733a74e2)

  yeah, they do, the commit is correct.

staticattack

• how frequently monsters dancestep? ??

Flee

• it doesn't melee attack, doesn't slow down, doesn't stop to melee attack
• it keep casting spells, it doesn't turn nor slow down to cast spells
• it will always move (not diagonally) even if it put it's nearby the target
• it won't dancestep
• fleeing algorithm

Taking distance

• monster slow down to melee attack the target, if at melee range
• don't turn to cast spells, not even "directed" ones, nor go slow to cast them
• standstill in the corner, (won't do a step to a "nearby" place to find another place, it standstill in the farthest place it can reach immediatly)
• it can dancestep at ideal target range
• getting distance algorithm

Dancestep

While not fleeing, if the monster cannot reach any better position, and is attacking his target, it has a chance to dancestep, that is a random movement to another sqm with the same range to the target as the previous one.

Fleeing algorithm

6 and 7 (8 range) still repeats at 9 but not at 10 range (monster doesn't went idle, continued moving)

DistanceStep algorithm