SirKewberthEdenForum Administrator, Forum Moderator, Game Developer
I want the refresh bumper too... As well it might be nice to have a "killmob" block, so you could make little tracks of spudbugs with reset points. There's still work to be done for sure on these things.
Note that if you disconnect and reconnect they WILL restart... but in order for it to happen the realm has to "unload".. So leaving and coming back immediately won't have that effect. Leave it locked and closed for a while and coming back to it, will restart them. If you played the adventure... in the temple there's a little section where they do a kind of saw tooth zigzag. This is only possible because when the realm loads anew, the spudbugs reset. If not they'd have a pattern based on when I placed the blocks, which would be all over.
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SirKewberthEdenForum Administrator, Forum Moderator, Game Developer
This is kind of complicated, and about how the game works in the background... And while this is more Cosmic's domain than mine I believe it works this way roughly...
1) If you jump into a realm that nobody has visited in a while, the realm gets loaded into memory on one of our servers on a certain network port. (we do this to balance the load across ports/machines)
2) If you leave the realm and there's still somebody else there... The realm stays loaded. When you come back you're going to the same instance of the realm on the server as before.
3) If everybody leaves... the realm STAYS loaded.. but starts to time out. If nobody is visiting the realm for a long enough time (I think it's around 5 minutes? Not 100% sure.. Cosmic would know exactly) then the realm will unload.
So if #3 happens and the realm unloads. Then the next time you visit the realm you will be back at #1. If that is the case the mobs will reset. But if you didn't leave the realm long enough, or other people are there, when you jump back in the mobs will not be reset.
That's probably hard to follow because it's in english, and I don't know how useful it is in practice.. but hopefully it gives you some idea what I meant.
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Note that if you disconnect and reconnect they WILL restart... but in order for it to happen the realm has to "unload".. So leaving and coming back immediately won't have that effect. Leave it locked and closed for a while and coming back to it, will restart them. If you played the adventure... in the temple there's a little section where they do a kind of saw tooth zigzag. This is only possible because when the realm loads anew, the spudbugs reset. If not they'd have a pattern based on when I placed the blocks, which would be all over.
1) If you jump into a realm that nobody has visited in a while, the realm gets loaded into memory on one of our servers on a certain network port. (we do this to balance the load across ports/machines)
2) If you leave the realm and there's still somebody else there... The realm stays loaded. When you come back you're going to the same instance of the realm on the server as before.
3) If everybody leaves... the realm STAYS loaded.. but starts to time out. If nobody is visiting the realm for a long enough time (I think it's around 5 minutes? Not 100% sure.. Cosmic would know exactly) then the realm will unload.
So if #3 happens and the realm unloads. Then the next time you visit the realm you will be back at #1. If that is the case the mobs will reset. But if you didn't leave the realm long enough, or other people are there, when you jump back in the mobs will not be reset.
That's probably hard to follow because it's in english, and I don't know how useful it is in practice.. but hopefully it gives you some idea what I meant.
Ghosts Should Follow Peeps When The Realm Has A Dark Stamp ^^