🔨 Besieged Research & Design & Implementation Tracking
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Describe the feature
Fine, I'll do it myself.
- Thanos
I'm going to research and mind-dump about every aspect of what's needed for an acceptable implementation of Besieged. I'll be observing on retail, looking at caps, and reading wikis (JP above all others).
I'm NOT promising to deliver an implementation of Besieged, but I CAN break the problems down into smaller chunks that others can run with, and provide support/guidance where needed.
I'm more likely to finish Chocobo Raising & Racing than to sit down and do the implementation for all of Besieged. I was encouraged to stop playing during TOAU, so I don't have the nostalgia drive for it.
Big work in progress. Obviously.
Also, Garrison leads to Besieged leads to Campaign and then that other thing in Abyssea. These are all (or should be) reusable components. Implementing something later in the chain without doing everything before it is madness and I won't support it. I'll just laugh at you.
Research
What IS Besieged?
Background Actions & Map
Invasion & Levels
Battling
Prisoners
Serpent Generals
Astral Candescence
Prizes / Why do it?
Design
Core
Packets
Scripting
Database
World Server
Including general volume of inter-process communication and making a better RPC system between processes and Lua calling on xi_map.
Implementation
Captures
Is it possible these days to reach 100% loss/enemy strength, etc?
Performance
Entity Processing
Packet Priority
Long Navigation & Pathing
This is the big bugbear I always bring up. There are a few ways to skin this cat.
Balance & Tuning
Start of impossible and tune it down. Nobody whines louder than when someone gets their free lunch taken away (see the balancing process for when I was implementing Trusts 👀)
Resources
- https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Besieged
- https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Besieged
- http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/ahturhgan/battles/besiege.html
- YouTube
- Packet Caps
- There are some older private servers that have their own implementations of Besieged-like things. It might be worth seeing if they would be willing to hand me their stuff.
- https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Astral_Candescence
Additional research: #5664
Captures
"Is it possible these days to reach 100% loss/enemy strength, etc?"
c-c yes as of May 10th
Level 99 Besieged incoming.
I have to get this data before it's too late..
The document has been considerably updated