guards attacking mobs
 

ok i remeber skimming through some stuff and in i seen something about the attack command can't quite remeber the exact syntax but it appears that this could be used to have a mob attack another mob based upon npc name. Now with that in mind mabey use it in conjunction witht he proximity element so the guards will attack any mob with a specific name when it enters teh guards proximity. This seems that it would eliminate the setting up of factions to have guards attacking mobs.

for this situation it's easier to set up npcs to attack other npcs based on faction then have a .pl file for every single guard/npc you want to have attack another npc when it gets inside aggro radius.