I have the concept of TANK's who take all the battle damage when groups are in battle and are also the last to enter room and take all the damage from aggressive's. This works great with the old style of Groups w/ Followers.
I always arranged for the groups to enter a room and then ordered them so that the tank was last to enter the room and thus attacked.
In combat, i did auto-assist but i made it very unique, i made it so that auto assist would not only assist the tank, but if the tank was replaced by a new tank in battle, (death of old tank, Tank thrown from battle, some reason the tank was no longer the tank but the next person in line for combat became the tank). Then you would automatically auto assist that new tank.
With new Groups, we have broken this out and I am having some issues. for those do not do not know I have Focused ALS (lou Gherigs) and i am on a new Drug which has some really intense side affects. One of those is it keeps my brain in a fog sometimes. I cannot for the life of me work out the math here. I was hoping if I posted my old code, someone could help me adjust it to the new form of Groups.
I rarely ask for this type of help but since i have been on this new drug, it has and will take some time for me to get used too.
Code:
struct char_data* find_tank(struct char_data* ch)
{
struct char_data *tch, *next_tch;
/* Auto assist - Find out who the tank is in this room - if none, we just keep scanning */
for (tch = world[IN_ROOM(ch)].people; tch; tch = next_tch) {
next_tch = tch->next_in_room;
/* If the person is not fighting, he is not a tank */
if (!FIGHTING(tch))
continue;
/* We are not going to auto assist mobs tanking for us */
if (IS_NPC(tch))
continue;
/* If the person is not in group, no need to find a tank for people to auto assist */
if (!AFF_FLAGGED(tch, AFF_GROUP))
continue;
/* if person is not in a position to be a tank, skip them. */
if (GET_POS(tch) != POS_FIGHTING)
continue;
/* if you cannot see them, skip them */
if (!CAN_SEE(tch, ch))
continue;
/* Do not want an immortal being the tank */
if (GET_ADMLEVEL(tch) >= ADMLVL_IMMORT)
continue;
/* now find me the tank */
if (!FIGHTING(FIGHTING(tch)))
continue;
if (FIGHTING(FIGHTING(tch)))
return tch;
}
return NULL;
}
Code:
if (!IS_NPC(ch)) {
if ((tank = find_tank(ch)) != NULL) {
if (!(master = tank->master))
master = tank;
/* now we know the tank and the master, now find the follows and have them auto-assist */
for (k = master->followers; k; k = k->next) {
/* skip the person that is tanking for the group */
if (k->follower == tank)
continue;
if (!CAN_SEE(k->follower, tank))
continue;
/* do not want unsuspecting immortals to auto assist */
if (GET_ADMLEVEL(k->follower) >= ADMLVL_IMMORT)
continue;
/* If we have an NPC follower or if the person is not flagged auto assist, skip them */
if (IS_NPC(k->follower) || !PRF_FLAGGED(k->follower, PRF_AUTOASSIST))
continue;
/* Sanity check, if for some odd reason the follower is not in the same room now as the tank, skip them */
if (IN_ROOM(tank) != IN_ROOM(k->follower))
continue;
/* if person is not in a position to assist, skip them. */
if (GET_POS(k->follower) != POS_STANDING)
continue;
/* skip if they are already fighting */
if (FIGHTING(k->follower))
continue;
/* Now assist! */
do_assist(k->follower, GET_NAME(tank), 0, 0);
k->follower->char_specials.timer = 0;
}
/* Auto assist the tank with the master of the group - if set for auto assist */
if (!FIGHTING(master) && (master != tank)) {
if (PRF_FLAGGED(master, PRF_AUTOASSIST))
if (IN_ROOM(master) == IN_ROOM(tank))
if (GET_POS(master) == POS_STANDING) {
do_assist(master, GET_NAME(tank), 0, 0);
master->char_specials.timer = 0;
}
}
}
} /* End of AutoAssist */
} else
stop_fighting(ch);
Code:
void char_from_room(struct char_data *ch)
{
struct char_data *temp, *i;
if (ch == NULL || !VALID_ROOM_RNUM(IN_ROOM(ch))) {
log("SYSERR: Extracting char from room NOWHERE. (char_from_room)");
exit(1);
}
if (GET_EQ(ch, WEAR_LIGHT))
if (GET_OBJ_TYPE(GET_EQ(ch, WEAR_LIGHT)) == ITEM_LIGHT)
if (GET_OBJ_VAL(GET_EQ(ch, WEAR_LIGHT), 2)) /* Light is ON */
world[IN_ROOM(ch)].light--;
[b] if (ch == world[IN_ROOM(ch)].people)
world[IN_ROOM(ch)].people = ch->next_in_room;
else {
if (world[IN_ROOM(ch)].people) {
for (i = world[IN_ROOM(ch)].people; i != NULL && i->next_in_room != ch ; i = i->next_in_room)
;
if (i != NULL) {
i->next_in_room = ch->next_in_room;
}
}
}[/b]
if (FIGHTING(ch)) {
if (FIGHTING(FIGHTING(ch)) == ch)
stop_fighting(FIGHTING(ch));
stop_fighting(ch);
}
if (AFF_FLAGGED(ch, AFF_GROUP))
unaffect_group(ch, FALSE);
REMOVE_FROM_LIST(ch, world[IN_ROOM(ch)].people, next_in_room);
IN_ROOM(ch) = NOWHERE;
ch->next_in_room = NULL;
}
