Create a new Monster attack pattern "Bad Tempered"

[Maleclypse]

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I'd like for some animals to have a Bad Tempered pattern like when a domestic bull has gotten loose and is walking down the road. When your car tries to pass him going the same direction he'll try to shoulder check and gore your car most times as you get close to passing but if you drop speed he'll go back to ignoring you.

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I'd like to mimic this by having a pattern where some domesticated animals make it a little harder to successfully tame them. My idea is that they'd like have flags that raise aggression for things like "PC nearby" and then when aggression is high they charge the PC and strike, then move back like they do on Hit and Run but during the run section their anger level significantly drops. So if you've hurt the monster significantly it would be hit and run tactics til it or you die, but if it's got most of it's health it calms down.

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Additional context

Sections I believe I need to work in for this. Monster.cpp 2624

    //Monster will regen morale and aggression if it is on max HP
    //It regens more morale and aggression if is currently fleeing.
    if( type->regen_morale && hp >= type->hp ) {
        if( is_fleeing( player_character ) ) {
            morale = type->morale;
            anger = type->agro;
        }
        if( morale <= type->morale ) {
            morale += 1;
        }
        if( anger <= type->agro ) {
            anger += 1;
        }
        if( morale < 0 ) {
            morale += 5;
        }
        if( anger < 0 ) {
            anger += 5;
        }
    }

monster.cpp 1531 I'd probably want to mirror this flag then insert the mirrored flag in the above "if" chain to set the anger cooldown effect

    if( has_flag( MF_HIT_AND_RUN ) ) {
        add_effect( effect_run, 4_turns );
    }

[Maleclypse]

Here's what I think this might look like

          if( has_flag( MF_BAD_TEMPERED || MF_HIT_AND_RUN ) ) {
        add_effect( effect_run, 4_turns );
    }

And then it might look like the following

    //Monster will regen morale and aggression if it is on max HP
    //It regens more morale and aggression if is currently fleeing.
    if( type->regen_morale && hp >= type->hp ) {
        if( is_fleeing( player_character ) && has_flag MF_HIT_AND_RUN ) ) {
            morale = type->morale;
            anger = type->agro;
        }
        if( morale <= type->morale ) {
            morale += 1;
        }
        if( anger <= type->agro ) {
            anger += 1;
        }
        if( morale < 0 ) {
            morale += 5;
        }
        if( anger > 0 ) {
            anger -= 3;
        }
    }

I know the bottom is wrong but I'm trying to put together my notes.

[actual-nh]

One advantage of such a thing would be making the hit-and-run fleeing make more sense in terms of potential aggression during it - as in, instead of enforcing fleeing, enforce a drop in morale sufficient to cause flight.

More generally, a reverse version of STALK - decrease anger if over starting. (I've had thoughts regarding changing triggers from a list of flags into a list of flag, float pairs - the float being multiplied times the effect of the trait. In this case, "STALK", -1.) EDIT: BTW, @Venera3 - any thoughts?

[Venera3]

How I could see it being hooked up easily is building a trigger into the melee attack function, like ATTACK - if the mob gets annoyed by a clamped trigger (like, say, HOSTILE_SEEN) even a relatively weak placate trigger would turn it Tracking again, but it wouldn't make a difference for a mob turned hostile by other triggers (HURT, to pick the least cheesable one). I think either all triggers should be clamped pretty aggressively, or the morale/aggression decay rate should be reduced because as it stands things just never chill.

E: adding more customization options would be amazing, as well.

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