EVENT_AGGRO question?

[pfyon]

You might be able to just have it show no loot to people outside the lvl range. Doesn't solve the problem of high lvls buffing lower lvls to kill mobs, but if a jerk went around killing everything, the corpses would be lootable for stuff by people of the correct lvl range (after 6 mins or whatever the timer is).

[ChaosSlayerZ]

Originally Posted by pfyon

You might be able to just have it show no loot to people outside the lvl range. Doesn't solve the problem of high lvls buffing lower lvls to kill mobs, but if a jerk went around killing everything, the corpses would be lootable for stuff by people of the correct lvl range (after 6 mins or whatever the timer is).

well how would you do that - prevent loot showing - example of actual script?

Also I want to point out that I don't plan on using this script on ALL mobs. Just on the name bosses who carry specially valuable loot. So a high lev person can still run around low level dungeon farming junk drops/cash or collecting faction.

[Romell]

I wrote a script that will de-pop fabled mobs and repop the regular version with EVENT AGRO using a level threshold. Maybe on the bosses you want to do this to, have the EVENT AGRO pop the same boss with no loot, or spawn some sort of PH. Just a thought to solve one of the problems. Not sure if you wanted to have to do DB changes to make it work.

[ChaosSlayerZ]

Originally Posted by Romell

I wrote a script that will de-pop fabled mobs and repop the regular version with EVENT AGRO using a level threshold. Maybe on the bosses you want to do this to, have the EVENT AGRO pop the same boss with no loot, or spawn some sort of PH. Just a thought to solve one of the problems. Not sure if you wanted to have to do DB changes to make it work.

well since we have found out that EVENT AGRO only fires once - the problem is that a player who is in legal level range will agro the mob and then any number of out of level people can jump in and start beating on it and get the loot at the end

[Romell]

On second thought, What if you used EVENT DEATH. Set the threshold so that people who are of level to fight and kill the mob receive the loot via quest::summonitem and the others who would be way too high or are just there to KS would be banished and the have the script repop the mob.

[ChaosSlayerZ]

Originally Posted by Romell

On second thought, What if you used EVENT DEATH. Set the threshold so that people who are of level to fight and kill the mob receive the loot via quest::summonitem and the others who would be way too high or are just there to KS would be banished and the have the script repop the mob.

umm it will work but then you will have to either:
-give each person VERY specific loot usable by their class
or
-give them random loot which is dropable and non lore to avoid situations where entire group which has say no ranger receives 6 ranger only no drop bows as reward =)

This will work for number of situation however, like given out specific class based rewards or quest drops, but in my case i actually do not want to give 6 pieces of loot on 1 groupable boss- i only want to give 2 items randomly chosen

[Romell]

I see what you mean, my perl skills are limited lol

[ChaosSlayerZ]

Originally Posted by Romell

I see what you mean, my perl skills are limited lol

no-no its a very fine idea you had with generating loot after the fight, and its something I haven't even thought of, and it will work for many situations, when we do want to give people equal loot distribution after the fight (kind of like giving quest flags). It juts won't work for my specific case