What are the differences and implications of the mentioned flags, namely EX_NOMOB vs ROOM_NO_MOB?
I ask in particular to know how mobs behave with them, especially mobs who follow characters, mounts and minions.
EX_NOMOB vs ROOM_NO_MOB
Re: EX_NOMOB vs ROOM_NO_MOB
The first means a mobile cannot pass through that exit, the latter means that a mobile cannot be in the flagged room.
I use the exit flags to keep mobiles from wandering out of proper areas (if you have an NPC who is supposed to be a beggar, for example, and you want him to wander the streets but not enter shops) and I use room flags to keep mobiles totally out of a room (a safe room in a combat area, for example, where PCs can rest).
What are you trying to accomplish?
I use the exit flags to keep mobiles from wandering out of proper areas (if you have an NPC who is supposed to be a beggar, for example, and you want him to wander the streets but not enter shops) and I use room flags to keep mobiles totally out of a room (a safe room in a combat area, for example, where PCs can rest).
What are you trying to accomplish?
"A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work, for time is carried upon a current of forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought." - Chime of Eons
Re: EX_NOMOB vs ROOM_NO_MOB
I just wanted to avoid problems/issues and to use the right flag. For now I have been using only ROOM_NO_MOB flags.
For example, given the two options, which of the two makes the mob not chase the character if they shoot at them from afar? If a mob attacks a character, the character flees, will the mob chase even past a no mob exit or a no mob room?
Also, there was one case of three rooms that are nearby the boss of a dungeon, and I wanted the wandering mobs to avoid them at all costs because they fear the boss, so I wondered which of the two is better to realize that.
For example, given the two options, which of the two makes the mob not chase the character if they shoot at them from afar? If a mob attacks a character, the character flees, will the mob chase even past a no mob exit or a no mob room?
Also, there was one case of three rooms that are nearby the boss of a dungeon, and I wanted the wandering mobs to avoid them at all costs because they fear the boss, so I wondered which of the two is better to realize that.
Re: EX_NOMOB vs ROOM_NO_MOB
If you want them to not wander, but to pursue then you might use NOWANDER and use different terrain types. This will keep them from certain areas until they need to pursue a PC.
If you want them to respond to a certain other NPC (grovel, etc.) then you might use programs on the NPCs to force them to do so. An entry prog would do the trick. e.g.
If you want them to respond to a certain other NPC (grovel, etc.) then you might use programs on the NPCs to force them to do so. An entry prog would do the trick. e.g.
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>entry_prog 100~
if mobinroom(1234) > 0
smote flees from @m1234
south
endif
~
"A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work, for time is carried upon a current of forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought." - Chime of Eons
Re: EX_NOMOB vs ROOM_NO_MOB
Oh, yeah, this was what I was looking for. Thanks.Harroghty wrote:If you want them to not wander, but to pursue then you might use NOWANDER and use different terrain types. This will keep them from certain areas until they need to pursue a PC.
