If checks on fight progs

[Elwin]

I had a question about fight progs. Now, in all of the examples, the mobs have "if quest" checks put on them. I was wondering if the if checks are actually required or if they can be left oout of the prog. Any help would be gratly appreciated.

[Dalvyn]

No, you can have fight progs with no if-checks. For example :

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>fight_prog 40~
mpecho $I spits murky waters into $N's eyes!
mpcast blindness $n
~

This is actually a disguised if-checks, since it does the same as

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>fight_prog 100~
if rand(40)
  mpecho $I spits murky waters into $N's eyes!
  mpcast blindness $n
endif
~

Most fight-progs have if-checks though, because if-checks combined with rand(...) allow us to make the mob's behaviour "random": the mob "chooses" an action amongst several possibilities.