Solved Encounters

[Levis]

So I was going trough LAi_login.c and I found:

        //Ðàññòàâëÿåì êâåñòîâûõ ýíêîóíòåðîâ
        if(!LAi_CreateEncounters(location))
        {
            //Ðàññòàâëÿåì ìîíñòðîâ
            LAi_CreateMonsters(location);
        }

My question is why only having encounters or monsters? especialy because most nice encounters are coded as monsters.
I changed the code now to:

//Levis why not have both??
        //Ðàññòàâëÿåì êâåñòîâûõ ýíêîóíòåðîâ
        //if(!LAi_CreateEncounters(location))
        //{
            //Ðàññòàâëÿåì ìîíñòðîâ
        //    LAi_CreateMonsters(location);
        //}
        LAi_CreateEncounters(location);
        LAi_CreateMonsters(location);

So I can get something to work, but is there a really good reason why I shouldn't be doing this?

Also is it just me or is the data set in LandEnc_init barely used. Most of the encounters are hard coded into the internal settings (VICE CITY)

 

[Pieter Boelen]

You don't want too many characters in the same location. If you get to a certain limit, characters start dropping out.
We had problems with that in some quest cases, for example.

The Vice City mod was made by Couchcaptain Charles. He has added a tremendous amount of life to the modpack,
but he was no actual programmer and a lot of the work he did might be considered to be written as a "hack", rather than using/modifying the systems properly.

 

[Levis]

For now I changed it to this because now the vice city mod only works if there isn't an encounter (for example a officer in the tavern).
I haven't found to many characters yet. if this does happen I think I know now how he programmed it so we can rebalance it.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

We'll find out soon enough, I suppose.