[CF-Devel] two new small additions

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On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 01:23, Mark Wedel wrote:
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        I'm all for making it more difficult for players to accidentally kill other 
     
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      players.
     
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      One reason it was done for melee attacks originally is because of how quickly 
     
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      one can get killed by another player with such attack.
     
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        This is someone related to the problem of monsters having so many HP than 
     
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      players - players attacks are then very deadly to other players.
     
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        This is bit less an issue in ranged attacks perhaps.  Also, given the speed of 
     
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      such attacks, it is more likely in crossfire that someone steps in front of your 
     
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      attack, vs a case where players are intentionally targetting another.
     
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ok I've managed to add a new function called friendly_fire that checks
if the attacker is PEACEFUL & attacking another player and will modify
the damage done if this is the case.  What I currently have is that all
peaceful attacks against other players does 1 pt of damage.  Since the
idea was to lower the chace of accidentally killing other players this
really gives the othre player a chance to get out of the way but can
still do some damage if people are careless, a wand of lightning can
still do a lot of damage one point at a time due to the speed of the
damage.
It also does a check for to see if the damage is done by CONE, FBALL,
SWARM_SPELL and POISON_CLOUD types which will do full damage even if the
attacker is peaceful (you can still easily accidentally fry a party
member with burning hands or a fireball in other words.)  
Actually to be precise the function currently simply returns three types
of friendly fire, hits by a player, hits by an object owned by a player
and hits by an object owned by a player which are of an area effect
nature (e.g. CONE...) so that I could do different things based on these
types of friendly fire.
I have also changed 'WHO' to better show if a player is _P_eaceful or
_H_ostile since it is more important to know.  It would be nice to have
your Peaceful status displayed somewhere prominantly in the client as
well.

Now I could instead do some sort of random percentage of damage rather
than a single damage point, but if this is more popular idea it
shouldn't be a lot of damage IMHO (~10%?).

I added a check to the hit_player function which checks friendly_fire. 
It works very well so far on my test server but I still need to do more
testing I think.

So, any last suggestions?

Of course just to clarify for those of you not really reading this
thread, it does not change damage against non-players when you are
peaceful... just PVP attacks.  Also, yes this does fit in with the
Outlaw counter I am working on, but is really a stand alone change.


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