2012-04-09, 12:48 PM
Eos Wrote:Everything you've mentioned is client and doesn't have a 1:1 relation to how the server itself processes and deals with things.True, but there is some relation. Of course, the main purpose of all these space-saving initiatives would be to decrease the client size. But that's pretty important to incoming players, if you ask me. I'm sure there are a lot of 14-year-olds who would be wary of downloading a 2GB+ client just to "try out" a game.
Eos Wrote:Mobs actually already have the ability to inherit everything from another id. That's the Link property, see mob VNUM 9305237 with a link of 8220005. Everything that isn't explicitly defined in 9305237 is inherited from 8220005, including animations. Per your example, 9800087 link 5130107, so it's really 5130107 and 9400504 that are reduntant, unless they duplicated the animations for all three for some reason.That indeed seems to be the case. So despite the fact that this link property exists, it would seem that it isn't always being used to its full advantage. Perhaps it also has to do with the fact that my particular examples refer to old monsters - maybe they didn't actually go through and update these links retroactively? I'm not sure. Have they been consistently using them on all the new stuff?