Hostility

Author	Topic: Hostility
Garrison Agent Member # 2820	written Monday, November 10 2003 13:55 Profile #0 Do you think that there will be many different types of attitudes in the Averum engine? I want complex battles with different sides and such. I'm also wondering if the "town going hostile" thing could be a little more complicated than having it happen whenever I attack anything or steal anything. In Geneforge, you could attack certain people without causing the town to go hostile and there was a crime limit. Even the Geneforge hostility system seems a little flawed, though. Why would the whole town go mad if a person, who is living outside the city walls and of whom no one knows about and is actually an enemy spy, sees you steal their bread???? [ Monday, November 10, 2003 20:33: Message edited by: Keep ] -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 | Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00
Drakefyre Triad Mage Member # 7	written Monday, November 10 2003 14:39 Profile Homepage #1 Yes. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, November 10 2003 18:04 Profile Homepage #2 To elaborate a bit... I believe you can set it to not go hostile when you kill certain people, but theft will always result in hostility. That hostility can probably be shared via scripts, but it does not go beyond the one town by default. —Alorael, who can't be sure how much of the Avernum stuff will be included in BoA. E3, for example, had party death nodes that triggered when the town became hostile in Fort Emergence, Ghikra, and Blackcrag, but there was no way to do that in BoE. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The Almighty Doer of Stuff Shaper Member # 73	written Tuesday, November 11 2003 04:36 Profile #3 Yes there is, as long as there's nothing hostile in the town, like rats in the trash pile outside the wall. Just set a timer to call a node every turn that destroys hostile monsters, and give a monster the party can't reach the ability "Call town node when killed" and make it display a message and kill the party. I don't know how to do it if there are already hostile monsters, though. -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00
Tyranicus. Dollop of Whipped Cream Member # 391	written Tuesday, November 11 2003 06:19 Profile Homepage #4 Give everything in the town 0 HP, set a SDF (the same SDF, I'd guess) on the life of every monster, kill party if it's incremented. [ Tuesday, November 11, 2003 06:20: Message edited by: ??? ] -------------------- "Tyranicus is about the only one that still posts in the Nethergate Forum." —Randomizer Spiderweb Chat Room Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 562 | Registered: Friday, December 14 2001 08:00
Garrison Agent Member # 2820	written Tuesday, November 11 2003 08:58 Profile #5 I'm pretty sure that there will be nodes that can be called when a town goes hostile. I hope there will be monster groups in the game so things could make more sense. -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 | Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00