Raids

kayen85 · #1 08-23-2008, 12:41 AM

Not sure if this helps, but I was a raid leader on live for a while and one thing I remember about the raid tool is it was always buggy in regards to the "make group leader" function, infact I don't think it ever actually worked correctly. I always had to manually tell groups change the leader themselves.

**KLS** · #2 08-23-2008, 01:09 AM

It's certainly possible to get it working correctly as I did it when I was creating the raids by hand. There's just a lot of situations where it needs to change and I don't have them all covered yet... not even close to having them all covered.

So_1337 · #3 08-23-2008, 02:09 PM

As kayen said, the raid function to change a group leader wouldn't be a big deal immediately so long as /makeleader is working. I haven't gotten to toy around with your new group code yet, so unsure if you'd already nailed it down.

Sounds like you're making fantastic progress, especially since we were always told this wasn't even possible. Keep it up!

**KLS** · #4 08-23-2008, 04:29 PM

Raids work now for most basic purposes.

Exp, rsay, gsay, loot, group spells, bard pulses, money splits, merit kills. Missing quest interface and tons of polish.

**trevius** · #5 08-24-2008, 06:12 AM

Oooooh KLS! I have been trying to hold back from posting a drooling post here about your work on this, but I can't hold back any longer! This is going to be so awesome! I will have a few encounters to adjust but I can't wait to set them for raid merit instead of hailing flags

It will be really nice to not just let anyone come in and get the flags after the boss dies.

I do think it would be nice if there was a way to have group merit and raid merit separate though. Not a huge deal, but I just made a zone that runs on a completely new credits system (using quest globals) and it is designed for single groups only. If an entire raid can use the system it might cause me to have to come up with a new way to do it. Not a huge deal, and raids would definitely be worth the minor issue I would have in this one zone, but I do think it would be nice to be able to chose if merit goes to just the group or to the whole raid. Something to consider, anyway.

**KLS** · #6 08-24-2008, 06:50 AM

Can probably just export the IsGrouped() and IsRaidGrouped() functions to the perl interface so you'd be able to tell between the two with a simple if else check in code.

**trevius** · #7 08-24-2008, 08:32 AM

Ahh, gotcha! That should work