[CF-Devel] BUG, probably concerning friendly_objects

[Mark Wedel]

Andreas Vogl wrote:
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      When I enter a map for the first time, sometimes the
     
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      monsters don't notice me. They don't attack, they're
     
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      not even moving.
     
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      When I log out and re-enter again they usually
     
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      start attacking. Weird...
     
     
 What portion of the time is 'sometimes'?  10%?  90%?

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      The reason might be that the friendly object "player"
     
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      is not treated right, maybe it's even missing in the
     
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      list of friendly objects when this happens.
     
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      I tried as DM "dumpfriendlyobjects" on such a map,
     
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      and I couldn't find anything in the logs.
     
     
 Does that mean you couldn't find any output from that command, or does it mean
you saw nothing unusual?

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      Looks like this bug appeared after checkin of Mark's
     
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      patch concerning friendly_objects. But it could well
     
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      be that the bug existed before and has only been
     
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      "triggered" by one of the changes.
     
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      I can remember similar things happening before, but it
     
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      used to be much more rare. - Any ideas?
     
     
 To track this down, you may want to look at the enemy value in move_monster
(server/monster.c - enemy is initialized at the top of the function).

 So what its value is if anything.  Its possible its finding some other friendly
on the map to kill.