Hello everybody,
I was having a bit of fun with the API earlier and plotted a heat map showing all dynamic events in the open world.
Observations:
Can we just appreciate for a moment how much time and effort has gone into the game on ANet's part to program all these dynamic event chains.
All the script writing, recorded dialog between NPCs, all the AI pathing and event triggers and everything.
You can play this game for years and still find events that you have never played before, especially ones deep into event chains based on succeed/fail statuses.
Dynamic events certainly can be complicated. I've been building these things off and on over the past 5 years or so. A lot of these bright red spots represent large amounts of time and effort. A good number strongly correlate to specific phases in both my personal and professional life. I've seen heatmaps before, but never of the whole world at once. Let's just say it brings back a lot of fond memories. Thanks to /u/that_shaman for posting this.
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Gilscale Pond is the hub after all ;)
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