Death respawn

[Hyfrydle]

I didn't want to put this in Mantis until I could check what should actually happen.

On death should the new character respawn in the current continents settlement?

[x4000]

No -- you respawn in the last settlement you visited, whatever that happens to be.  Or if it's a mission that isn't failed by death, you respawn in the mission staging area, but that's just like battlefields and maybe a couple of others.

[Hyfrydle]

So if you fail at a mission the death respawn becomes the staging area of that mission?

[x4000]

Depends on the mission type -- if it's a battlefield, yes.

[Hyfrydle]

What is the reason for not just respawning at the current continents settlement on death as I feel this would feel less confusing.

[x4000]

Previously there were multiple settlements, and not continents; we never updated the logic.  The missions thing aside, it seems like a good suggestion to me to make it do the settlement of the current continent.  Although that might be technically infeasible, and definitely prior to 1.0 it is.  You wouldn't know the chunk ID of that settlement, nor would it potentially even exist yet if nobody went there.

[Hyfrydle]

Ah that makes sense. Although I was confused today when I died quite a few times and kept appearing in the staging area of a mission. With the settlement chunk not existing the first thing I do on any new continent is go to the settlement to see what spells are available etc.

So maybe if this is something to implement prior to one players need to have some reason to visit the settlement first on each continent, perhaps to attune with that continents Illari or something.

[x4000]

In the very short term this one is out of scope, but post-1.0 it's something that should be investigated more.