Castle Assault

[x-ray]

Summury
Castle Assult v0.66

Another my "war event" (See also Monster attack on towns here: white hue code need help)

This script produce castle and monsters spawn in it. Besides defenders the castle can also spawn 3 group of monsters to patrol the area. Players can assault the castle by breaking doors and enetering in the rooms. If boss monster is killed the castle stop respawn monsters and wait some times to restart. The boss monster have a small chance to drop rare artefact.
To break the doors players must click on doors. The chance of door break depends of character streght. To open the door players must "break" it 100 times by default.

Usage:
Unzip to custom folder.

In game:

Find flat location and put a castle somewhere:

[add EvilCastleSpawn

This will produce castle and some decoration on it. If you stick in the wall or floor use [tele to move to another location. In the middle of the castle you can see the sign - click it twice and the properties will shown. Here you can edit/look the properties:

active - this will activate entire system. Every internal tick the castle check the number of monsters in every defender group and respawn one monster in every incomplete group of defenders.

The one internal tick time is calculated by following formula -

time = rate + rate * (kills/rateValue)

Check the description of rate, kills and rateValue below.
For example if you kill 10 monsters, rateValue = 67 and rate = fast the castle will 'tick' every

time = 50 + 50*(10/67) =~ 57 second.

autorepair - If this is 'true' very internal tick time the castle will repair every breaked door with 1 unit.

complete / CompletionTime - show is the boss is killed and when this happends.

kills - number of killed monster-defenders. Decreased by one every internal tick.

maxArchersInGroup - number of archers in group

maxMagesInGroup - number of mages in group

maxWarriorsInGroup - number of warriors in group

rate - respawn rate

Slow means about 190 seconds
Normal means about 120 seconds
Fast means about 50 seconds

rateValue - total rate divider. See the formula of internal ticks above.
restartHours - restart captured spawner after this number of hours

Waypoint1,Waypoint2,Waypoint3 - add waypoints ([add Waypoint) and link with this props. If any of this waypoint not null the castle will spawn patrol groups (if kills at tick time equals 0, means castle not under attack)

Notes

For lag reducing purpose all monsters corpses(except boss monster) will deleted imideatly.

To remove castle and all spawn just type [remove and point to the castle spawn sign. If castle multi is not removed use [wipemultis to delete empty castle.

Warning !UO client cache multi in dat file. So after deletion of castle multi sometimes you can notice parts of castle artifacts. Just exit client and run it again.

History:
v0.66
* small fix again

v0.65
* small fixes on mobs, doors and base spawn script

v0.6
* reduced number of default setting for defender mobs to prevent client lags
* sounds on spawn disabled to prevent client lags
* mobs are now dont speak again to reduce lags
* mobs are stronger !
* small changes

v0.51
* fixed my stupid bug (possible divide by zero). Many thanks to yevusi for pay attention on this.

v0.5
* initial release

[yevusi]

looks like another cool script,

great work


well, haven't tested the scritp yet, but from looking over it, something looks a bit problematic to me:

float chance;

					if (from.StatCap == 0)
					{
						chance = ((float)from.Str) / ((float)from.StatCap);
					}
					else
					{
						chance = 0.2f;
					}

isn't there a problem in the first condition ?
because if from.StatCap equals 0 you don't want to devide something by it.

[x-ray]

This condition is the kind of insurence to prevent divide by zero.
The chance of door break calculated by following formula:

chance = char str / statcap.

This is it.
If character have statcap == 0 i just use hardcoded chance 0.2, about 20% to successfully break the door. Thats all and no problem here

[yevusi]

yea, x-ray i understand that, but you got the order wrong

if you look closely you see the following logic :

if StatCap == 0
divide by StatCap (=0)
else
set to 0.2


it should be :

if statCap == 0
set to 0.2
else
divide by StatCap

[x-ray]

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
sorry - its 1-26am here and i am wrong - this is my mistake

Sure - change the '==' to '!='

I will change and repost script...

[yevusi]

x-ray, this is why we are here

i call this symptom- "the man from the side debugging"
when you work on your code, your view get fixed on some parts, and you don't notice the obvious things, but somone who has a fresh look on the code can spot it in seconds....

we all suffer from it

[x-ray]

Originally Posted by yevusi

x-ray, this is why we are here

i call this symptom- "the man from the side debugging"
when you work on your code, your view get fixed on some parts, and you don't notice the obvious things, but somone who has a fresh look on the code can spot it in seconds....

we all suffer from it

Version 0.51 reposted

I just change it to this

if (from.StatCap > 0)
{
chance = ((float)from.Str) / ((float)from.StatCap);

to prevent even impossible things

And all you said above is true I work this script for about 4-6 hours long today - this drives me a little nut
Again, thanks for pointing me

[XMalachiX]

Yo, i kno this is off topic, but is this script for runuo 1.0 or 36? plz answer thx!

[Tru]

Originally Posted by XMalachiX

Yo, i kno this is off topic, but is this script for runuo 1.0 or 36? plz answer thx!

All current released scripts should be for 1.0 as thats all thats supported

[brodock]

runuo 36 is a looooooooooooooooooooooooooong time no more supported... obvious you can test it, but if it doesn't work... it will be hard to get support (Feeling like Phantom answering this... lol)

[x-ray]

Originally Posted by XMalachiX

Yo, i kno this is off topic, but is this script for runuo 1.0 or 36? plz answer thx!

I run and test it on Runuo 1.0rc0.
As everyone said above you can try to test it on beta36, but i am not sure will this work or not...

[XMalachiX]

ok thx :-/ just that im runnin 36 heh, but thx! i'll try it.

[brodock]

-OFF TOPIC-
just wandering why you run in beta 36 (i saw phantom talking about that in other thread but didn't saw why... lol )

is it in someway related with a "shard pack you downloaded" or a "modified" runuo.exe someone decompiled?

[XMalachiX]

Originally Posted by brodockbr

-OFF TOPIC-
just wandering why you run in beta 36 (i saw phantom talking about that in other thread but didn't saw why... lol )

is it in someway related with a "shard pack you downloaded" or a "modified" runuo.exe someone decompiled?

Heh, im runing 36 'cause im the co-owner of the shard, but the owner dont want to use 1.0 (cause of bugs?) well theres your answer.

[darkoverlord]

Hello,

Nice script, but they spawn a huge amount of orcs, is there a way to lower the spawn based on the size of the group coming to do the encounter?

thanks

deryk

[x-ray]

Originally Posted by darkoverlord

Hello,

Nice script, but they spawn a huge amount of orcs, is there a way to lower the spawn based on the size of the group coming to do the encounter?

thanks

deryk

You can only lower number of members in each group by double clicking the spawner sign.
You can not alter defenders spawn points or number of groups. But i think lowering number of members will be enough.

BTW the default full (maximum number of defenders in castle without boss) spawn is:
4*6 groups = 24 archers
2*11 groups = 22 mages
3*7 groups = 21 warriors
total = 67 mobs, this even smaller amount than first champion spawn waves

Are you experinced any problems with this values ? Dont forget, players never get into the middle of castle with this values So i think when they break a number of doors the number of defenders will be even < 67

BTW 2ALL:
Please, let me know about balancing and the optimal config values(in your oppinion) you used to configure the spawn. Also please mention the skillcap and statcap on your shard. Will be appreciate for this. Thanks.

[x-ray]

BTW 2ALL:
Please, let me know about balancing and the optimal config values(in your oppinion) you used to configure the spawn. Also please mention the skillcap and statcap on your shard. Will be appreciate for this. Thanks.

One hundred of downloads and no one reply Pity...

[Aidsteen]

What would I need to add so that when players finish, the castle gets destroyed? Sort of like..

*boss dies*
"As the boss falls, the castle crumbles around you."
*delete the multi and sign thingy*

?

[x-ray]

You dont need to add anything. If the boss dies the castle stop spawning monsters and patrols and restart after RestartHours propertie.

ps I plan to reduce number of default spawn of defenders and make the defenders little stronger... Stay tuned...

[Aidsteen]

Well, do the doors remain unlocked? That was the only real issue I had with it.

[Styxx]

With this how would you just add the door with a command? I have tride a few but it says rong format.

[x-ray]

Originally Posted by Aidsteen

Well, do the doors remain unlocked? That was the only real issue I had with it.

If boss monster alive and autorepair in props is true the doors "autorepairs" and after completly repair is locked. If autorepair is false the doors will remain unlocked.
If the boss monster die the doors stop autirepair until restart time. At restart time all doors is 'reset' and locked...

With this how would you just add the door with a command? I have tride a few but it says rong format

You mean you want add new door to the castle ? You can use [add command to add EvilCastleMetalDoor but i think this is bad idea. The castle "track" only native doord. The door you add wont autorepair and wont "reset" after restart time...

[x-ray]

Version 0.6 reposted.

* reduced number of default settings for defender mobs to prevent client lags
* sounds on spawn disabled to prevent client lags
* mobs are now dont speak again to reduce lags
* mobs are stronger !
* small changes

[Blackacid]

Nice script I will shurely use it on my shard.

[Styxx]

Originally Posted by x-ray

You mean you want add new door to the castle ? You can use [add command to add EvilCastleMetalDoor but i think this is bad idea. The castle "track" only native doord. The door you add wont autorepair and wont "reset" after restart time...

When I added the door, server crashed after testing it with a player character. Here is the server report.

Server Crash Report
===================

Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0
.NET Framework: 1.1.4322.573
Time: 24/12/2002 10:14:42 PM
Mobiles: 2974
Items: 52694
Clients:
- Count: 1

Exception:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Server.Items.EvilCastleMetalDoor.Use(Mobile from)
   at Server.Items.BaseDoor.OnDoubleClick(Mobile from)
   at Server.Mobile.Use(Item item)
   at Server.Network.PacketHandlers.UseReq(NetState state, PacketReader pvSrc)
   at Server.Network.MessagePump.HandleReceive(NetState ns)
   at Server.Network.MessagePump.Slice()
   at Server.Core.Main(String[] args)

Would there be anyway to be able to make it work?