Finally got monster spawning working correctly now. So we can set up “zones” that when a player walks into it, it will spawn the appropriate monsters associated with that zone. What’s great is this is all done server side, so no one can hack it. Also, since it’s server side, you can build ‘lists’ of monsters that should spawn based on certain conditions.

So if you are in a low level version of the mission, it will maybe spawn a monster at spawn point 1 but not spawn point 2. If you are in a harder mission, it will spawn a monster at spawn points 1 and 2.

Also whatever monster it spawns can be random from a certain list of monsters. This way we can pick and choose from the server what monsters spawn where and have total control over it.

Next up, monster AI . . .