player.pl is there npc.pl?
 

I was wondering if there was a global file for all npcs, as there is for players?

I believe it is default.pl, in the quest\templates folder

Don't see a default.pl in the templates folder. There is one in the quests/plugins directory but it looks more like a setup than an action file.

Tried using quests/zone/default.pl but the mobs aren't taking to it.

There is a default.pl in tutorialb with a hail = "Shh, I think I here the kobolds."

But, to test I hailed Guard Kaikachi and he doesn't respond to anything.

Is this the right file name or is it supposed to work?

Tried default.pl, did not work. Anyone have any insight on this one?

I don't believe that there is currently a way to access a default.pl file. Player quests were implemented by KLS to access the player.pl file, so I'd imagine something similar would have to be created for this case.

The templates folder is a way to place a single file for an NPC in all zones, such as the Nexus Scions. Rather than having to place the file every zone with a scion, one file can control them all.

This is a good idea, though, and I believe it's been talked about in the past. I'd be interested to see it so that return plug-ins could be created for every NPC easily, so that they'd return items. However, there would of course have to be an exception set so that pets wouldn't use the same file.

Good thinking, didn't even think about pets trying to use the same file.

Hopefully this is an easy thing to implement. It looks like someone wanted to do it since there was the default.pl in the tutorialb zone.

Any takers?

why shouldn't pets use the same file?

I know it was discussed here as a result of an attempt that went wrong. However, I can't seem to find the original plug-in that was tested and prompted that post.

You don't want pets to use the same npc_default.pl (just a name I'm tossing out, it's a hypothetical at this point) because pets need to keep items that are given to them like weapons and armor, and you wouldn't want NPCs to do that by default. You'd want NPCs to return items that are given to them, unless they aren't caught in sub EVENT_ITEM.

Hopefully you can find that plugin, it will greatly save my hair and frustration!

unless there is a indivudual .pl file for each pet, which I belive should prevent default scripts running for them.

Okay, here we go.

It was originally discussed in this thread, though it seems that the code was eventually taken out (as explained in the thread I linked to previously over at PEQ).

It seems to have been awhile since this was explored, but you may get the results you want just by experimenting. Hope this has helped =)

But, it doesn't work. Like I said, the default.pl in tutorialb doesn't make the guards(non-quest) say "shh, i hear kobolds"

it works fine on my test server running rev 1000 -ish