summoning (once more)

Yeroc

I know if I can't summon NCPs to fight for me maybe other NCPs can summon demons to fight for them. Can they? And if so how?

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ellrx

Give them a a weapon/item something that can launch or call an event.
in the event put an npc control use whatever coords you fancy...ta da, when they use the item the other npcs arrive.

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Rubber Ducky

Or it could be done by globals. When the NPC's health drops to "x," launch new NPC at map co-ordinates given might work, but it would be better to link to "player contact," "death event," or to the player's health.

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Rubber Ducky sez:
**Or it could be done by globals. When the NPC's health drops to "x," launch new NPC at map co-ordinates given might work, but it would be better to link to "player contact," "death event," or to the player's health.
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but you'd have to keep track of the current or multiple NPC's for that can be hectic, especially if this is not a Boss-Level scenario but, I do understand.

( Planning on replicating an army of Smiths are weż )

Perhaps again as i mentioned in the other thread on jumping giving the player a stat called "will" and giving the NPCs that can replicate an item that checks whenever "will" has raised or based on their experience points etc, then replicate. Anything that the sumoning NPC would percieve as a threat.

The Karma Variable is up for grabs and can be either a number or string of characters.

In fact you could create a specialized NPCs ie a scene where the playeer must run, then an increase or an existing high level of speed would warrant a summoning.

Along those same lines they might call stronger or faster minions to handle your threat pattern. To do this give them a large inventory of items cpable of calling the variety of opponents.

Creating a multitude of NPCs with a multitude of different things that they percieve as threats creates diverse gameplay with minimal efffort on your behalf.

I mentioned an item or weapon specifically because you can give them a definite amount of charges, to prevent too many opponents from flooding the screen, if I am in tune with Yeroc's motives.

To coincide I suggest setting a maximum capacity for summoning, no more than X amount of NPCs can be sumoned in any one confrontation. Since items, correct me if I'm wrong, only allow for a single condition to be set for their use, put a conditional in the event itself, if HostileNpcCount greater or equal to X then 'End Event' else, NPC Control action 'SummonSixSpeedySmiths'.

( having npcs call multiple minions means that sometimes the maximum can be exceeded to allot for a large number of opponents...ie, you have 14 smiths, you summon six, 5 smiths too many, but no more smiths can be called until the number drops below the limit. )

I'd do some testing with your graphics to see the number of opponents that are manageable to do battle with, and try to balance the damage levels and defenses.

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(This message has been edited by ellrx (edited 12-06-2003).)

Rubber Ducky

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Originally posted by ellrx:
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These are excellent ideas, ellrx.

To sum up summoning: Hostile NPCs can be summoned by events linked to- - -

items or weapons in existing NPC's inventory
map tiles
"player contact"
"target reached"
NPC "death"
player stats

The type and number of summoned NPCs can be controled by globals.

You have your work cut out for you, Yeroc.

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Yeroc

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Originally posted by ellrx:
**Rubber Ducky sez:
**Or it could be done by globals. When the NPC's health drops to "x," launch new NPC at map co-ordinates given might work, but it would be better to link to "player contact," "death event," or to the player's health.
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