Gift of Hedone: Enemy Spawning

Hello you wonderful deviants,

I just wanted to let you know I have added the preliminary functionality for random enemy spawning and this will also be live in next weeks playtest.

The reason I say preliminary is that it does not have any random chance for stronger or rare enemies yet, that will come in due time. For now it just has a random chance to summon the enemies that you have previously been testing.

You can summon enemies manually still, and remove all manually. But when you cross the threshold into a combat zone or non safe zone, the enemies will spawn

What will trigger a new spawn/respawn?

Once aspect I personally wanted to avoid was the on death, or on rest respawn common in Soluslikes - The main reason is that rarer enemies will be reward you more, so I don't want people to be able to force reset of the enemies spawns for a chance of rarer encounters.

For that reason, the ability to spawn in new enemies will be based on either an out of combat timer, or defeat all enemies timer.

Out of combat Timer - this will be a longer counter (not too sure what I will set it to exactly) but it is currently set to 30 seconds for testing purposes. Where if you are out of the combat zone, and have not re-entered that combat zone - it will destroy all current enemies in that area, so when you revisit it will be new enemies.

Defeat all Enemies - The other option is if you defeat all enemies in a zone, leave the zone, and come back after a certain period of time has elapsed, the zone will spawn enemies. This is set to 10 seconds just for testing but will also likely be longer in the full build, but will be a lot shorter than the Out of combat Timer counterpart. This means, you would defeat all the enemies, leave the zone for 10 seconds, and when you come back it will spawn more enemies. If you leave the zone after defeating the enemies, and come back to the zone before the 10 seconds is up, it will reset the timer. You need to be away from the zone for at least 10 seconds.

The main idea is that there will be grace periods where zones wont be completely dangerous, so you wont have to run back and forth through swarms of enemies to maybe reach an area you were going.

Thoughts and feedback are always welcome :)