Practical question - What should contain the Entity class/interface.

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Hello guys,
I am making a 3D multiplayer game and I am looking for Entity class best practices.

The Entity class (or interface) is going to be root for all entities in-game (NPCs, players, etc).

What are, in your opinion, required things in such structure. I mean stuff like getName(), getLocation() etc.

Thanks for answers in advantage

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All depends on how you structure your game and your objects.
Don’t worry too much about abstraction until you actually need to abstract something - it can always be done later.

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I suggest avoiding inheritance entirely for something like this. It doesn’t really gain you much, and just encourages anti-patterns like if (object is SomeClass).

Just make “Entity” its own component (MonoBehaviour), and drop it on all of your entities such as Players, NPCs , etc… They can have other components that do all the other stuff.

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