Beastmen and gils

[altalus]

Not sure if this would be better in the scripting board but...

Would there be a "best" approach at including a lua file to every beastmen lua ?

for example, in zone/west_sarutabaruta/mobs/Yagudo_*.lua I would include something like:

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require("/scripts/globals/mobs/beastmen.lua");
require("/scripts/globals/mobs/yagudo.lua");

That way you *could* define family wide abilities, spells, and functions ?

Something like this that you could call in the onMobDeath() of the mob ?:

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function dropGilOnDeath(mob, killer)
   -- Check level and give players the gils
end

Is this possible or even a good idea ? Or would it be better to do it on each individua on onMobDeath() ?

[whasf]

I think ideally it would be stored in the database and used in the core. Calling scripts is a lot slower than executing native C++ code

[altalus]

I think ideally it would be stored in the database and used in the core. Calling scripts is a lot slower than executing native C++ code

I know about the speed, but wondered also about things like family wide FoV pages and such

[whasf]

I think ideally it would be stored in the database and used in the core. Calling scripts is a lot slower than executing native C++ code

I know about the speed, but wondered also about things like family wide FoV pages and such

Anything that's outside the scope of the retail game won't be accepted into Darkstar. We are striving for as close to retail as possible to give everyone a base to build off of. If you want to do what you're suggesting for your server (and share with others on here or elsewhere) that's fine, just don't expect us to accept it.

I'm not trying to be harsh, i'm just saying it as it is!!

[altalus]

Anything that's outside the scope of the retail game won't be accepted into Darkstar. We are striving for as close to retail as possible to give everyone a base to build off of. If you want to do what you're suggesting for your server (and share with others on here or elsewhere) that's fine, just don't expect us to accept it.

I'm not trying to be harsh, i'm just saying it as it is!!

Actually I am suggesting to fix it as in retail. Lemme explain.

Some pages ask to kill X number of monsters of the Y family (aka page 1 of East Ronfore that ask "6 Pugil Family"). As it stands now, we would need to add to ALL monsters of that family in ALL the zones the script to checkRegime. I find this tedious and un-productive.

Just my 2 cents.

Also I go no feedback on 2 patch I submitted that try to fix things in a retail way... not wanting to be harsh here either, but I would like to know if I should keep on submitting things or not