Charmed mobs and the pet/group window and buffs

[MNWatchdog]

Originally Posted by cavedude

Opcodes change every time the client changes, so no they aren't the same.

Damn, thats lame.

Well since new people who arrive in the zone know that its a charmed mob, couldnt this be kludged to work by respawning the mob charmed and when charm breaks or forcing some sort of resend of that mobs info to people in the zone when its state changes like when you hand a pet a weapon, etc?

I guess this isnt a killer issue. Just something thats been around a while and was wondering if anyone had bothered to look into it.

[cavedude]

Originally Posted by MNWatchdog

Damn, thats lame.

Aye, and a royal pain in the ass, too.

I believe KLS was once long ago working on a workaround for this where the opcode wasn't needed. I think it was along the lines of once a NPC is charmed, the server was forced to send the pet window packet. I have the code archived somewhere, I'll see if I can find it (unless you still have it, KLS) Though, I was never able to get it working which I fully admit may have been an error on part part during merging.

[KLS]

Can work around not having the op by sending a despawn packet followed by a new spawn packet with the pet data set. It's inefficient but it gets the job done without having the opcode.

[MNWatchdog]

How does the server send the update that Ive handed my pet a weapon to everyone?

Could this be done a simular way?

If you can do the respawn idea so that one doesnt lose target when charm breaks, thats quite workable. Right now, Ill break charm early to recharm it and have a melee pull agro off me.

If we lose the target when the charm breaks, it certainly can add a extra undesirable thrill. :p

[EvoZak]

Maybe some industrious soul could run WireShark in a sandboxed server with two clients and then charm something. Might be an easy way to find the opcode's value. Then again I have no idea how much data this would mean you have to sift through but it does seem possible.

[MNWatchdog]

Was thinking a bit more about the respawn idea.

One thing that needs to be preserved through charming and breaking is the mobs items. I sometimes give my pet nice weapons off other mobs to use and then kill my pet later to reclaim the weapons.

Also, I could see the respawning being used to get a named mob to repop weilding something desirable. An exploit that Im sure most would servers would like to prevent.

[greggg230]

Originally Posted by EvoZak

Maybe some industrious soul could run WireShark in a sandboxed server with two clients and then charm something. Might be an easy way to find the opcode's value. Then again I have no idea how much data this would mean you have to sift through but it does seem possible.

The servers dont just automatically send the packets. They have to be coded to, and that's the problem.

[EvoZak]

Originally Posted by greggg230

The servers dont just automatically send the packets. They have to be coded to, and that's the problem.

Actually I meant you could sniff the packet coming from the client. Still, I don't know how far that would get you. Obviously if the problem is the opcode sent back down to the client, not very.

And great work on finding the OpCode!