While my friend was testing our mud tonight, he noticed an interesting quirk. Rooms flagged NO_TRACK/NOTRACK would not only stop the mob from entering the room to mhunt the player, they would cause the mobile to forget the player they were hunting. I took a look at graph.c to see if I couldn't cause the mob to stop short of the NO_TRACK/NOTRACK room the player was in while also retaining the mobs memory for that hunt. I succeeded. Here is a quick workaround for this in graph.c.
Note: This is from a code that has deviated from TBA through additions for many, many years. Some syntax may need to be altered, but I'm pretty sure this will be a drag-n-drop deal if you wanted to test it. Please give credit where it is due if you use it. Thanks, and I hope this makes another mud more enjoyable. The idea of making mobiles appear smarter always intrigues me as a player!
Original Code pt. 1
Code:
static int VALID_EDGE(room_rnum x, int y)
{
if (world[x].dir_option[y] == NULL || TOROOM(x, y) == NOWHERE)
return 0;
if (CONFIG_TRACK_T_DOORS == FALSE && IS_CLOSED(x, y))
return 0;
if (ROOM_FLAGGED(TOROOM(x, y), ROOM_NOTRACK) || IS_MARKED(TOROOM(x, y)))
return 0;
return 1;
}
Original Code pt. 2 (From void hunt_victim at bottom of graph.c)
Code:
} else {
perform_move(ch, dir, 1);
if (IN_ROOM(ch) == IN_ROOM(HUNTING(ch)))
hit(ch, HUNTING(ch), TYPE_UNDEFINED);
}
}
Code Change pt. 1
Code:
static int VALID_EDGE(room_rnum x, int y)
{
if (world[x].dir_option[y] == NULL || TOROOM(x, y) == NOWHERE)
return 0;
if (CONFIG_TRACK_T_DOORS == FALSE && IS_CLOSED(x, y))
return 0;
if (IS_MARKED(TOROOM(x, y)))
return 0;
return 1;
}
Code Change pt. 2
Code:
} else {
if (ROOM_FLAGGED(EXIT(ch, dir)->to_room, ROOM_NOTRACK)) {
act("$n appears to be waiting patiently for someone...", TRUE, ch, 0, 0, TO_ROOM);
}
if (!ROOM_FLAGGED(EXIT(ch, dir)->to_room, ROOM_NOTRACK)) {
act("$n appears to be tracking $s prey...", TRUE, ch, 0, 0, TO_ROOM);
perform_move(ch, dir, 1);
act("$n appears to be tracking someone...", TRUE, ch, 0, 0, TO_ROOM);
}
if (IN_ROOM(ch) == IN_ROOM(HUNTING(ch))) {
hit(ch, HUNTING(ch), TYPE_UNDEFINED);
}
}
}
