Kudos, and a question

[Drajor]

Hello and welcome Dhry

I saw your server in the list today and wondered who the dev was. To answer your question: Yes it would be possible to set a qglobal when a character dies. I would probably use EVENT_SLAY on NPCs and set the qglobal when that is triggered. Then use EVENT_ENTERZONE for clients and check the qglobal in that.

That is a little off the cuff though. There are some extremely talented guys who know the scripting system much better than me. Maybe one of them will share a better way!

[Dhrystone]

Thank you, thank you !

I'm a total newbie. I've just figured out today how to get the Avatar of Mortality to spawn in PoK and how to get her to say some text.

Now the plan, subject to change as I learn and get suggestions of course, is to have her be the agent to put the player in permadeath mode through a quest dialog that would set a qglobal indicating permadeath mode for the player character.

Then using EVENT_SLAY or some mechanism, if a player with that qglobal set to on dies cast some nasty disabling permanent spell on them (spell to be named "Death" of course.)

I want the character to still exist just be disabled by being rendered unable to move or cast. Alternatively they could be ported to some purgatory zone and rendered unable to cast. But the point is to make death reversible by GM action so that in case they died from some bug they could be restored. Also, the ability of the dead to will their gear to someone else.

Players without that permadeath qglobal set would play like an normal PEQ-based server.

I would probably make the effect reversible by talking to the Avatar again -- but only once.

The ultimate idea is to have a leaderboard somewhere (in game?) so that those players who get the highest in level without dying can be recognized for their accomplishment.

Dhry

[Zaela_S]

Originally Posted by Drajor

I would probably use EVENT_SLAY on NPCs and set the qglobal when that is triggered. Then use EVENT_ENTERZONE for clients and check the qglobal in that.

Why there is no EVENT_DEATH for clients by default is a mystery to me.

[Dhrystone]

Is there some global perl script like player.pl but that applies to all zones?

I could probably implement an EVENT_DEATH in the code and maybe get an official dev to get it in the standard.

Dhry

[Zaela_S]

Originally Posted by Dhrystone

I could probably implement an EVENT_DEATH in the code and maybe get an official dev to get it in the standard.

I'm working on an implementation of the quest scripting system in Lua with an eye to fix all the things that seem like oversights or that just aren't designed as well as they should be. And to get away from some of Perl's trickier syntax.

Whether that will be accepted is a whole other matter, though...