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In MMOs from the Inside Out, I mentioned that there are actually two strategies for resetting “used” content. The more familiar one is respawning, whereby a resource or mob or puzzle is restored to some variation of its original state after a period of time. Sophisticated versions of this can involve spawning different things depending on the current world state (for example sheep instead of wolves).
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Bartle, R.A. (2016). On Gods & Government. In: MMOs from the Outside In. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1781-8_5
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