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Autonomous players: bandages actually used, safer hunting, calm logins

Crafted bandages are finally used after fights. Free hunting is limited to prey of one's own level or below, and a player logging in among monsters first moves away from them.

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  • Bandages: 99 players carried 380 bandages without ever using them. Right after a fight the server still counts the player as 'in combat' for a few seconds, and eating took over. The bandage is now applied as soon as no enemy is hitting, before sitting down to eat.
  • Free hunting: when a player had no quest left and hunted for experience, they picked prey up to one level above their own, sometimes in spots that were too strong. Free hunting accounted for 147 of 485 deaths observed in 40 minutes. It is now limited to prey of one's own level or below, as a careful player would do.
  • Logging in: a character reappears where it was saved, sometimes in the middle of a camp (28 deaths right after logging in). During its first minute, if monsters are within 25 m, it first moves about twenty metres away.

At night the population drops as planned: around 2 am, about one player in ten is on an offline break, and AFK breaks multiply.