So all of the stuff I have been coding and learning up to this point is going to finally be put to good use in a massive project I am looking to start working on.


One of the problems faced with UO is spawn time versus play time.  When I played Anarchy Online one of the expansions introduced what became known as pocket bosses.  A player would farm 4 pieces of a pattern and combine them together.  Then some trade skill stuff would happen and the player would end up with an a ready to spawn boss.  These bosses could then be taken at any time to one of the spawning locations to be spawned and killed for their loot.


I would save up pieces from random hunting and combine them and have the bosses ready to spawn.  When I was ready (solo or with friends if the boss was tough) I would hit up a spawner and kill through them all.


This is a system that I would love to bring into UO Evolution (assuming it gets approved by Kyn and Dante).


I am hopefully going to start working on the scripts very soon.  I was thinking of having 4-6 levels of difficulty with 4 bosses with 1 main boss per level range.

Yes I like stuff like this for the players that have limited time to play.  We have also contemplated group champs that take 4 players to spawn, gold/token champs and other ways to trigger the spawns but are not easily camped or soloed.
 
There is also another idea I saw that i really liked.  It was an instance spawn, where you have to walk around and when you get near the spawn, it determins what level you are and spawns a random encounter appropriate for your level and is different each time you trigger it

Hmm, group champ would need to be a much harder champ with higher rewards to warrant needing 4 people I would think.  Gold or token trigger system would be interesting.


Random spawn triggers would be a cool idea.  With static spawns you know in advance what is where and can prepare for it.  With the instance spawns you get something random.


I will start to put together an outline for this pocket boss system and start to work on the first tier of mobs for it.  I have an idea of how I want to bring it together so it will just be writing all the scripts and figure out how I want it all to work.

Hmm, group champ would need to be a much harder champ with higher rewards to warrant needing 4 people I would think.  Gold or token trigger system would be interesting.


Random spawn triggers would be a cool idea.  With static spawns you know in advance what is where and can prepare for it.  With the instance spawns you get something random.


I will start to put together an outline for this pocket boss system and start to work on the first tier of mobs for it.  I have an idea of how I want to bring it together so it will just be writing all the scripts and figure out how I want it all to work.

If you expect it to be implemented I'd prefer if we worked together on it. Or that I can at least review the code during the process.