default.pl for NPCs without a quest

[Knightly]

I'm confused? What does this do actually? default.pl already works, both by zone, and server wide. (It goes in the root directory of quests, not templates. Never made sense to me, but it works)

D'oh! Teach me to not look before I leap. At any rate, the same rules apply, the default.pl (if it exists) will cause pets to take items as well. So, ignore the code above, but still feel free to answer the question I posed.

[Angelox]

This would be a great idea, I know there was a default.pl didn't know it worked - and I can't find one now, does anybody see one in their directory?
if so, can they post ?

[cavedude]

This will do it Though, it does not work for bots. I'll have to go through the bot code and see if I can use another object to identify if the NPC is a bot or not.

sub EVENT_ITEM {
my $owner = $npc->GetOwnerID();
if ($owner > 0) {
}

else {
plugin::return_items(\%itemcount);
}
 }

Oh, and if interested in using my debugging code I used to make sure everything was kosher, here it is. Nothing fancy of course.

sub EVENT_SAY {
my $owner = $npc->GetOwnerID();
if($text=~/pet/i && $owner == 0){
quest::say("I don't belong to anybody!");
}
elsif($text=~/pet/i){
quest::say("I belong to player, $owner.");
}
 }

Of course, default.pl won't work for NPCs who already have a script associated with them, so I guess one of these days somebody is going to need to tack plugin::return_items(\%itemcount); at the end of every script. *sigh*

[Knightly]

Great script CD. I don't use the bots on my server, so I'm afraid I'll be no help there...but on the plugin::return_items issue, I started writing a crawler script that would update these. Still needs quite a bit of testing, but I've been swamped at work lately so it may be some time before I can finish it up.