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How hunt works

What raiders can hunt

Huntproofing methods

Example
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Hunt

How it works:

Not all classes get hunt - but most raiders WILL have it.

Usage: "Hunt <target>" will return one of the following:
   1) Your Target is <direction> from here
   2) "Unable to find a path" if there is no path exists, or there is a portal in the way.
   3) No such mob exists (Keyword wrong, mob dead, or not in the area)
   4) Your target/mob is gquesting

Nitty-gritties:
   - Hunt will hunt the exact target, not the nearest one. (Eg. "hunt shop" = "hunt 1.shop")
   - If there are 2 or more equi-distant paths, hunt wil return one randomly.
   - Hunt will show paths through locked doors, even if no key exists.
   - If you fail the Hunt % check, it will work as if you haven't got hunt (see below).

If you don't have hunt, and you DO try it, it will return one of the 4 values above!
   - A randomly chosen direction from the available exits, which may or may not be correct.
   - If it returns one of the other 3 responses, it is ACCURATE!

What raiders hunt:

In the hall:
   - Shopkeepers/other mobs
   - Clan members/defenders/traitors
   - Raiders who are already in

In the maze:
   - Clan guards
   - Raiders who are marking doors/portals
   - Jail sitters (see Sitting:step 4,brown arrows)

Positive & Negative hunting
   - Positive: Hunting people where you want to go (eg shopkeepers)
   - Negative: Hunting people where you don't want to go (eg jail)

Huntproofing:

Methods

Portals
   - Simplest & commonest method
   - Will return "unable to find a path" if it in the way
   - Furthermore, they render "scan" useless.
   - Wayfind is also useless as it will report only the general area (the clanhall), not the specific room.
   - Every clan should have one just before the clanhall, and before a set of intermediate/end guards.

One-way exits
   - Have one-way-forward exits
   - These prevent mappers from hunting BACKWARDS to see where they come from
   - Normal exits won't confuse experienced raiders, and will allow them to backtrack as well.

Equidistant rooms
   - More tricky to implement and seldom used
   - Based on the fact that hunt will return a random path chosen from the intermediate paths
   - Useful in saving portals, but can only be used in limited situations, and often with locked doors.

Locked doors
   - Another portal saving device, often combined with key-trapping(see later)
   - Based on the fact that hunt disregards doors
   - Can cause a raider to walk into a room, only to find they lack the key
   - Best combined with equidistant rooms, so that random directions are returned.
   - A good example is given under key-trapping

Example: Equidistant + Doors

NB:Explanation given under key-trapping.
But put yourself in the guard room hunting someone in the maze.

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