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A pokerincanda.ca mob is a non-player character or monster in a computer role-playing game . It is widely accepted as being short for mobile object or simply mobile, stemming from its use in the earliest text-based MUDs, and is commonly written either mob or MOB There appears to be some debate on the exact origins or the term, and backronyms such as "monster or beast" and "mere ordinary beast" have been developed.Killing mobs can give such rewards as experience points and items. Usually the combat is player initiated, however,

if the mob is "aggravated" or has aggro, it is configured so that it will challenge pokerincanda.ca a player who enters within a certain range. This area is known as the aggro range. Combat between players and mobs is called player versus monster or in a broader sense, player versus environment ; as opposed to player versus player battles where the emphasis is on defeating an opposing player rather fighting against the game system.Usage in MUDsAs the term originated from pokerincanda.ca MUDs, its use in pokerincanda.ca those games has not changed much. Mobile is often pokerincanda.ca preferred to mob.The original term Mobile was originally coined by Richard Bartle in a paper describing

an early MUD which was being constructed as a research project at the University of Essex. Although it originally referred to an object that could move , one reviewer of the paper misunderstood the term to be a reference to the classic childrens toy or Mobile that goes by the same name - and referred to it as "an incredibly beautiful analogy to those hanging toys, which appear to move around randomly as if alive, while pokerincanda.ca in fact being composed of mechanical parts pokerincanda.ca and operating in accordance with fixed scientific

laws". Usage in MMORPGsMobs in MMORPGs usually refer to the generic monstrous NPCs that the player is expected to hunt and kill rather than NPCs that engage in dialog or sell items. Named mobs, also known as "elites", are special rarer monsters that are tougher and have better loot, usually distinguished by having a Noun#Proper_noun name rather than the generic "a goblin".Computer and video game terminology EverQuest