Which way for monsters' data?

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Julien SEGERS asked May 3, '21

Which way for monsters' data?

Hello,

I'm using Unity to build a monster-taming game, similar to Pokémon or Temtem.

The difference is that the tamer (player) also have statistics (e.g. strength, vitality, ...) and a level system.

I'm a bit confused about how I should handle the data in PlayFab. The game is mainly single player but 1v1 battles will take places online.

1) Should the tamer attributes be written in Player => Statistics?

2) Should I use Player Data or Characters for the tamer's monsters team (which also have levels, health, spells, etc...)? Something else?

3) Where should I save the Vector3 position and the scene the player is in or such informations so that it is loaded upon logging in?

Thank you for your precious help!

Kind regards

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Answer 1 · 2021-05-04T08:29:18Z

Seth Du answered May 4, '21

PlayFab Statistics can do the job, but Player Read-Only Data is preferred based on the design purpose. PlayFab Statistic is aimed at recording scores, which will reflect on the leaderboard.
I don’t think it is necessary to use the Character feature for monsters, because Character is a substitute of a player. To manage monsters' data easily, it is recommended to use items. You can use Custom Data in items to store strength, vitality values. Consider Catalog items as C# class while the inventory item is instance. The Custom Data isn’t inherited from Catalog items. This behavior matches the design of Pokémon – for example, the Charmander’s base stat is pre-defined (store in Catalog item Custom Data) while the one that the player catches will have different IVs (store in Inventory item Custom Data).
I believe Player Data is able to store a Vecor3 data since it can be updated by the client. It depends on your requirement to use Player Data, Player Read-Only Data.

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Julien SEGERS commented · May 12, 2021 at 08:29 PM

Thank you for your answer!

I'm trying to understand how to implement server authority with CloudScript.

For example, I want to send an input that the player choose an attack, but on the server, I want to make sure it's the correct attack/damage etc...

For now, I have:

- an Attack class (which stores the data about an attack: damage, precision, element, etc)

- a Monster class (which contains the monster's stats used to calculate the damage).

I'm wondering for example where should I store the monster's attack, as they are items?

Thank you for your help!

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Seth Du ♦ Julien SEGERS commented · May 13, 2021 at 02:05 AM

May I ask does the game contain PVP contents? There are many solutions for server authority, but it depends on the design of your game. Here is an example from external community: networking - Should damage calculation in a competitive multiplayer game be done client-sided or server-sided? - Game Development Stack Exchange

>>I'm wondering for example where should I store the monster's attack, as they are items?

Please check the 2nd paragraph of my previous answer.

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Julien SEGERS Seth Du ♦ commented · May 13, 2021 at 09:24 AM

Thank you for your answer.

Indeed, it contains PVP. I will have a look at the link, thank you!

About my monster's attack, sorry I didn't mean the "attack" stat but instead I meant the "skills", "spells", etc... I should have been more precise, sorry!

Should this also be stored in Custom Data?

For now, I have a Monster class which has reference to a list of Spell (another class). I understand that I should use Playfab Items for my monster class, but I don't know where I should "store" my spells class.

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