Unanswered question: making friendly races un?

lexicat · #1 October 26th, 2007, 08:45 PM

Hi There,

I have a quest in which I would like to make a formerly friendly race, let's use the Zorg as an example, turn hostile.

The line:
ENMY Zorg

appears in my quest (along with various other good and awful things).

Everything works except that the Zorg do not actually become hostile after the quest has been triggered. Any advice on how I am supposed to accomplish this? Is preenc supposed to be employed somehow?

Thanks much,
Lexicat

Phlagm · #2 October 27th, 2007, 11:31 AM

I don't think the preenc has to be used necessarily, only when you're trying to make them enemies right before you encounter them. I have encountered many problems with getting races to change friend and enemy status, and I haven't quite worked out why.

But you say that other things in that quest block are being evaluated?

Here's what problem I once had: preenc flat wouldn't work on the corrupted tan ru quest, so I had to make it an encounter. So you'd end up fighting the tan ru and THEN they'd become friendly. It's quite annoying.

lexicat · #3 October 27th, 2007, 01:05 PM

Phlagm,

Yup, all the other aspects of my quest seem to work: i just can't seem to make (all) members of a friendly race, turn hostile.

Lexicat

sgqwonkian · #4 October 29th, 2007, 01:31 PM

Are you just changing the status of one race, or more? I ask because I recently discovered that certain commands only work once per PAGE. It's not documented anywhere in the ModMaker's Guide, so it took a lot of frustrating debugging to figure out what the problem was in one of my mods. Not sure if ENMY is one of the codes this applies to, but it's a possibility. If it is, spreading the commands to multiple pages with GOTO's will solve that issue.

Also, certain PAGE codes seem to work in Quests but not in Devices, and vice-versa.

Phlagm · #5 October 29th, 2007, 01:41 PM

Oh yeah, I actually figured that out too. Like it'll only take the last one.

sgqwonkian · #6 October 29th, 2007, 01:45 PM

We should compare notes sometime. I bet we've been banging our heads against a lot the same walls.

lexicat · #7 October 29th, 2007, 05:53 PM

Quote:

sgqwonkian said:
Are you just changing the status of one race, or more?

Just trying to make a single race become hostile. ENMY does not seem to do it.

Fingers · #8 November 5th, 2007, 10:55 PM

How are you triggering the page that should make them hostile? I think the "encounter" is never triggered with known friendlies, as that's part of the sequence with the radar screen... And the radar doesn't come up when you go to a star occupied by known friendlies. "preenc" should always get triggered however.