Entity Effects

[NiLSPACE]

Does anyone have an idea on how to manage entity effects?
I was thinking:

• Each effects gets it's own class. The class contains:
  • The entity it has to tick.
    
  • The level of the effect. (Poison 1/Poison 4)
    
• Each entity has an array with the effects it has.
  
• Each tick the entity calls a Tick function that manages what should happen.
  

[xoft]

How many effects are there? Won't that be unreasonably many miniature classes, when they could all be handled by a single function with a medium-sized switch()?

[SamJBarney]

True, but where do we stick it in the new AI rebuild?