Ring Wars

[Eglin]

Originally Posted by Alvaron

((Ok, maybe i'm in the wrong forum... i have no idea. This seemed like the best place for this though.))

This is the correct place to post.

I think it was with LoY that Verant introduced code into EQ that allowed them to stage "wars" between NPCs.

For a while, they were doing "ring wars" in which the dwarves of Thurg were fighting against the giants... t'was a great way to gain quick faction.

Can/Does/Will EQEmu support this sort of thing? t'would make the GM event i have in mind a LOT easier to do... (Saves me from having to run arround #attack-ing everything.)

Yes, eqemu supports the notion of faction. You can use the $faction in quests to get faction standing. You can use the undocumented faction function in the native parser, or you can add a line like

"sub faction{push(@cmd_queue,{func=>'faction',args=>join(',',@_)});}"

to the bottom of embparser.cpp and recompile to use it in your Perl quests. If I'm interpreting Wes's code correctly, then the appropriate syntax for the function is "faction(faction id, amount)"