Here are some notes from Publish 43, which is the last time they were working on hiding and stealth that I know of. These notes originally published by Wilki with a follow up note from Ando.
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Monster passive detect has been changed as follows:
- The base monster passive detect chance has been reduced.
- If a monster's detect hidden skill is greater than zero, it now has a minimum 2% chance to detect players.
- Players always have at least a 5% chance to remain hidden from a monster.
Player passive detect vs. stealthed players has been changed as follows:
- The base player passive detect chance has been significantly reduced.
- The passive detect range is now a 4 tile radius from the player.
- The range penalty on the chance to passively detect a stealthed player now drops exponentially as range increases. This means that the chance to passively detect another player is much higher if the players are 1 tile apart vs. 4 tiles apart.
- Players who have both the stealing and stealth skills at 100 or higher skill have a higher chance to remain hidden at a distance of 1 tile from another player.
From Ando 10/26/2006 - Same Thread
Hey everyone. Thanks for all the feedback on Stealth. It sounds like many players feel that passive reveal and reveal from area effect spells may still need some more attention. Unfortunately I don't think we have any time left to make any more large modificaitons to Stealth in Pub43, unless a bug is discovered with the current changes.
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Hope that helps,
Q
