Yes, I soon wizened up and took another approach. :) I simply borrowed
some code from mobile_activity, made an invasion_activity, and have them
wander around aimlessly, aggro to whomever they meet. I made the
invasion_activity pulse much faster, to seem like the MOBs are actually
running and invading, instead of wandering pointlessly. I also made a siege
command, so that implementors can siege the city of their choice. I'm not
sure if I will make this automated yet...might be difficult to make it
happen at wide, random intervals. I also added an INVASION flag, so that
invasion_activity doesn't cause all the MOBs on my mud to go completely
haywire. Of course, we could have a global mob frenzy...perhaps alignment
based as was suggested before...hmmm...poor players. :)
Thanks!
>Its possible in C, yes... almost anything program-wise is possible in C
>:-)
>However, thats kind of drastic, and allows for too strict hunting, IMHO.
>
>I would recommend a simple function that aggy mobs would do: scan each
>direction, as far as line of sight permits (up to a maximum distance),
>and find a character it would attack, then start hunting that character.
>If none, just wander until someone enters line of sight. Realistic and
>far less processing power needed.
>
>But as far as "power required", its not that much... MUDs run normally at
>> 1% CPU power on a P2/233 Linux system... our development port, (at time of
>check: 7.5k rooms, 1.5k mobs loaded, 5.8k objs loaded, 26 hours uptime.
>This has scripts and mobprogs, and is in C++, so there is more overhead
>than a C-based mud) uses less than .5% of CPU time (7:02 time usage). Of
>course, with players on, this would maybe double or triple, but the other
>port is 4 month old code and crashes every so often... like rightbefore I
>started writing this letter, so I can't check it :-) But you get the
>idea.
>
>- Chris Jacobson
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