CLORD'S PROFILE

author=Liberty

author=Clord
Proper way to handle random encounters seems to be making them visible as wandering monsters. That's said it can really screw over the player who tries to rush past them and then end up being completely destroyed by the next boss due that.

It can also be a hassle if you want to make graphics representing each type (thus why I tend to use flames) or if you have a certain amount that respawn while others don't and when they get in bottle-neck positions or run into each other/move too fast to outrun/get you trapped in a corner/bug out for whatever reason.

They have their upsides, yes, but because of the eventing nature of them they can often fall prey to common eventing mistakes - whether that be someone not changing a switch check in a copy/pasted event or whatever. They can be as much of a hassle to a player as random encounters (if not more), depending on whether the creator was a good game designer or not.


I've played games where the speed of said encounters were set very high, there were lots of them on the map, all follow hero, in a small area where it was easy to run into a wall/corner and have a bunch of crazy enemies swarming you. Add in ridiculous item amounts (like, two potions) and high damage rates and you have an unplayable game. So yeah, they are not necessarily the be-all, end-all of encounter systems.

Any encounter system done badly is a bad encounter system. Each has good and bad things to offer and there is not wrong or right choice in system, depending on the game and use of said system.