Turn off Self Healing for Monsters?

[Wayland Archer]

I have been looking into turning off the self heal that monsters seem to use while players are fighting them. I am hoping to get my shard to resemble the Renaissance build. Back in those days, Liches did not heal themselves.. Once they took damage, it stuck.

I have been looking at the MageAI.cs file, which the lich.cs seems to call upon.. I am not sure but, I take it that the AIType.AI_Mage infers that it does take its Artificial Intel from the Mage file in the AI folder?

I figure I will make the change for Liches, then I will use the same technique to alter the other monsters.

My first instinct is that I will have to rewrite the MageAI.cs file to remove all calls to self heal (not that I really know which are which). This would be my first real experience at this level, and I am hoping that folks can help me understand what it is that I am doing, and give me advice, instruction so that I do not mess anything up too badly.

Am I missing something, like a switch that turns this function off like you can turn off AOS and SE?

Thanks for any help!

[Lord_Greywolf]

yes - changing the mage ai is what you want to do - but could be a simplier way than doing heavy mods in there

there are 3 varuable to set - healing, teleport and 1 other
i believe the mage ai standard is like 15 or something in there - changing it to 1 would mean 1 in 100 "on thinks" it will try to heal

i am not sure if setting it to 0 will work to completely disable it - only because of problems that might come up with a 0 (null) call

but that would reduce down their healing a great deal

[Wayland Archer]

Ok, so this is where I made the change, in MageAI
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private const double HealChance = 0.01; //<--- THIS
private const double TeleportChance = 0.05;
private const double DispelChance = 0.75;

I rebooted my server, and I then went out to test it.. I found a lich, cast Energy Bolt on it, and it immediately cast heal upon itself.

This remedy did not work

I then set the HealChance to 0.00 and it worked. I beat on a lich for five minutes and it never healed itself.

Hopefully this works with all monsters.. etc!

Thanks!

[Lord_Greywolf]

it should work with all monsters that use the mage ai - because it is universal for them

melle does not self heal, neither does beserk or archer

not sure if theif ai has it or not, if it does it is via script (and not magery) and is probably very limited

if you have the pali ai - do not use it at all - i have not found one that does not crash - but i know it self heals also

if you have downloaded and used the necro ai at all - it also needs to be tweaked then - but it uses ss for healing, and they do not heal as much as mages do