Friendly objects, was Re: [CF-Devel] Major bug in CF server

[Jan Echternach]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:21:28PM -0800, Mark Wedel wrote:
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       Actually, I don't think the friendly flag will effect exp.  Its possible the
     
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      mork is just worth 0 exp since you are not supposed to kill them.
     
     
Mork has "exp 1", but IIRC the "a pet was killed" branch in
hit_player() was triggered, which won't give any exp to the hitter in
any case, just an error message because the "pet" didn't have an
owner.

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       Using friendly object on maps shouldn't create any problems - I'm not sure if
     
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      it does anything or not (ie, will friendly monsters actually attack anything to
     
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      help you out).
     
     
find_enemy() looks like it might do something useful, but I'm not sure
if all code handles friendly monsters without an owner correctly.

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Jan