Everything aggro's

[John Adams]

I'm glad we're discussing this. I created a few new NPCs in a dungeon the other day, 2 side by side (defending a doorway for instance). I set their aggro radius up, dropped my GM and attacked one. The other stood there like a statue. I even ran up under his dress, dragging his buddy who I was killing with me. No aggro.

So I went to check the database entries for those two. Noticed I forgot to make a Faction. So using PEQEditor, I setup a single faction, assigned it to both NPCs, having them Assist. Repopped, then attacked one of them again. Still, the other would not aggro.

Is that not how this system works?

[cavedude]

Faction is in shared mem so you need a reboot to take effect.

[John Adams]

Ahh, ok that makes sense. I didn't think of that. :(

[cavedude]

Sorry to bump, but after talking with FNW and KLS last night about this, the newest build has a solution:

KLS: Added a field that allows you to override a factions innate desire to assist their own faction in battle to the npc_faction table

Required SQL:
alter table npc_faction add column ignore_primary_assist tinyint(3) not null default 0;

Setting ignore_primary_assist to 1 will prevent NPCs from assisting their own on that faction, leaving at the default 0 will leave things as is

[ChaosSlayer]

I am realy glad to see this was finaly addressed while I was away from EMU

I don't mean to be a dick.. but wasn't it more logical to code in "-1" value in npc_value colum to force a faction NOT to assist each other? =)

[cavedude]

Nah, the true/false value makes more sense.