{"id":949,"date":"2009-11-08T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T08:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=949"},"modified":"2009-11-08T19:18:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T08:18:31","slug":"balancing-mmorpgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/11\/08\/balancing-mmorpgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing MMORPGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tentonhammer.com\/node\/76328\">an interesting article over on tentonhammer.com<\/a> about the method being used by the number-crunchers at Cryptic, for adjusting character stats when gaining levels in Champions Online. \u00a0I find this sort of behind-the-scenes view at the number crunching to be fascinating, and probably justifies my intentions to abstract that sort of detail away from MMORPG Tycoon&#8217;s internal game simulation.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine that the folks playing MMORPG Tycoon for fun would want to manually adjust levelling-up-character-stat parameters like that! \u00a0;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article over on tentonhammer.com about the method being used by the number-crunchers at Cryptic, for adjusting character stats when gaining levels in Champions Online. \u00a0I find this sort of behind-the-scenes view at the number crunching to be fascinating, and probably justifies my intentions to abstract that sort of detail away from MMORPG&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-fj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}