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Originally Posted : Tue Apr 07 19:33:45 2009<br>Posted by : Razan<br>Title : changes to combat - slightly<br><br>I made what could ammount to a pretty major change or a pretty<br>minor one - depending on what it effects that I didn't think<br>about.<br><br>As you know, when attempting to perform an aggressive action<br>against a player there is a test made to see if you are allowed<br>to.  That might be to see if their intimidate stops<br>your or also to test if you are aggro, maybe need to be now,<br>or if they are aggro to you.<br><br>The thing is, once you are in combat you can remain in combat<br>(in this room).  What I did was change it so that every<br>round of combat we test if you can stay in combat - basially<br>doing that test every round.  Why?  Because of the next change:<br><br>CHANGE: The 'nopk' variable now has some new functionality.<br>It still will prevent you from starting combat with someone else, but now<br>it is also usable to stop yourself from attacking someone that you<br>did start attacking.  Meaning, imagine you start combat with Bob<br>and then decide Bob is kicking your butt and you need to back out<br>of this.  You have a quit timer, so you're not getting away that<br>easily.  But the problem was that as Bob continues to fight back<br>he causd YOUR quit timer to be reset over and over again (after all,<br>you startd it - right?).  Well now if you choose, you can set<br>nopk and this will stop your timer from being reset.  BUT, in exchange<br>for that you will NOT fight back at all!  Yes, this means they will<br>get entirely free hits against you.  Think of it as if you are<br>putting up your hands defensively and trying to run awaywith<br>your tail between your legs.<br>br>Make sense?<br><br>No, this doens't change how intimidate works so don't freak out that<br>intimidate will be tested each round of combat once you break<br>through.  Please mudmail and 'bug' things related to this.  Don't<br>bother posting on the suggestion board about it.<br><br>Oh, if you have things like damage shields (necro shield, ooze<br>acid, etc) you will still be able to splash damage on someone<br>with nopk set.  I think this is OK and yes, you get to do it<br>for "free" in the sense that it doesn't increase your PK timer<br>if you have nopk set and are running like a little girl.<br><br>This work is collaboration between Charon and I.  Bug him if you<br>don't like it.<br><br><br><br>[[Category:Changes_Board]]