Testbranch - AI Humanity Change Cases

[osuapoc]

Initial attempt at adding different player humanity change cases into the on_kill function. When using the spawn_group function, the 9th argument will be a string denoting "bandit" or "hero", which will tell the on_kill function whether to add or subtract humanity from the player when the unti has been killed. Using the case structure approach for the two alignments was done to allow for further alignments to be added in the cases of VIPs, Super AI, or hostages. The spawn_group function should default the alignment to "bandit" if it is not set in the call of the function. Currently, this call will only work with "mission" units due to the way the mission variable is set.

Also, this is untested on a live server, so please review before merging the changes.

[nerdalertdk]

Would be useful when making an hero mission, but right now all spawn Ai is on the east side

[osuapoc]

True. Currently the AI, even if heroes, would still be aggressive towards all players, as they are on the "West" team. The idea of the mission would be for heroes to camp this mission and try and stop the bandits from completing it. Or, you could have it as a hostage rescue mission where some number of the AI are unarmed, listed as heroes, so if you shoot them you take a big humanity hit. Just one of many cases where it might be nice to have more than one option for humanity gain.

[nerdalertdk]

Well on the server i play on its usually the bandits that camps an shoots the heros that are trying to get the weapon create

[nerdalertdk]

I do like the hostage part, think I have a code snippet with som spawns hostage an if one die the mission fails

[f3cuk]

I like the idea behind this, but it needs some more work.

Things i miss

• corrected sentences for mission popups
• corrected variables (ai_add_humanity should become ai_humanity_change (or even split both so admins could set different humanity changes for bandits and heroes))
• ai_hostage_humanity -> if you kill a hostage both bandits and hero's should get reverse of what they are looking for meaning bandits should gain humanity and hero's should lose it. I think it is a nice idea to do something like -> kill the hostage and lose X % of humanity (either negative or positive).

Another thing i was thinking about is that hero or bandits should not be able to complete missions of their own kind. So a hero or bandit gone rogue killing their own kind should not only result in them getting punished humanity wise, but also should not "unlock" the crate. They should however be able to take the vehicle but it might be a nice idea to send a jet after them if they decide to do so :P

[osuapoc]

Interesting idea to prevent wrong alignment of character from completing the mission. You'd definitely have to have a higher numbers of missions running to keep everyone happy with available missions if it prevents them from gathering the loot.

I'll go ahead and start correcting/adding the things you mentioned about additional variables and the like.

As for correcting the mission pop-ups, I'm going to leave them as is unless someone wants to change the default missions to be bandit or hero. Actually, might be neat to incorporate a feature to have it randomly pick whether it is a hero or bandit version of a mission.

[f3cuk]

We'll add this for milestone 2.1.0 so we have some time to think about how we want this to be.

[rockeumel]

The Problem is, if a bandit player and hero player are friends and play the mission together, one of the two get always punished :(

i run my own missionscript, and i do it so, you can set a humanitythreshold, the limit between bandits and heros, if a player has less humanity then that threshold he is a bandit, above he is a hero. In my Missions bandits always get deducted humanity, heros always get humanity.