[Flamestryke]

I am not Scatter but since he doesn't appear to be here at this time I will try to explain "spawning" and "wild cards" for you Micha.

Spawning is the term used for the generation of random monsters that you will encounter in the game. Spawns are only for random creatures and not for those creatures who are always at a location like the King Crab and Gregor. They are not "spawned" they are referred to as a "fixed" encounter.

"Wild Cards" means something pulled completely at random because specific conditions are not met.

In Wizardry 8 certain maps you enter expect your party to have reached a certain character level prior to coming in to them. Since the random monster encounters are based on average party level if you take your party into an area that expects them to be level 15 and they are only level 5 it has nothing to base monster level on so it just puts in monsters that are about mid-range in level for that area. Hence the term wild card. The monsters are spawned without correlation to the party level because the game cannot make a proper comparrison.

An example: I have entered the Mountain WIlderness with a party of level 5 characters. The monsters I saw were level 25 Bitter Wings and level 23 Blistering Scorchers. Pretty rough for a party at level 5.

In the Mountain Wilderness about the lowest level monster I have ever seen spawn was level 13 Acid Wings and level 14 Nightwings. The highest I have seen there was a level level 34 Molten Scorcher.

From this I surmised the Mountain Wilderness appears to expect the party to be around level 12-15 before coming there.

Hope that helps a bit and doesn't confuse you more on this subject.

Edit: Speak of the devil and he walks in. [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] Snuck in on me Scatter while I was creating my long winded reply.

[ 08-24-2004, 05:34 PM: Message edited by: Flamestryke ]