Civilian Crates?

[meatball 25]

Does anyone know of a way to allow players to get into ammo crates and such if they are set as enemies to Civilians?

For example, NATO player can get into NATO crates without a problem, but as soon as you do:

west setfriend [civilian,0];

NATO players can no longer get into NATO crates...

[Tajin 348]

west setfriend [civilian,0];

That is not a good idea, it can lead to all sorts of issues.

Better make individual units hostile by letting them join an enemy group (east or independent)

[meatball 25]

Well, I've tried a bunch of different ways. The primary reason I did that was to allow players to get positive score on the MP scoreboard instead of negative if they take out someone in the civilian side. (They're all infected you see...)

I've tried making the civilian units renegades, but then everyone attacks them (including other civilians). Basically I want EAST, INDIE and CIVILIAN to not attack each other, but attack WEST. I want WEST to get penalized only for killing other WEST units, no others. I was running with this in my init.sqf:

east setfriend [independent,1];
east setfriend [civilian,1];
civilian setfriend [independent,1];
civilian setfriend [east,1];
independent setfriend [civilian,1];
independent setfriend [east,1];
west setfriend [civilian,0];
west setfriend [east,0];
west setfriend [independent,0];

Edited June 26, 2014 by Meatball

[IndeedPete 1038]

Add killed eventhandlers to your civies which addRating to the killers, i.e. your squad. I don't remember how high the rating penalty is for a civie, maybe around 1000?

[Tajin 348]

So why don't you put your zombies on INDIE side then?

[meatball 25]

Because to setup proper behavior/movement scripts for them I have to have each unit in it's own group. And with the 144 / side limit, I quickly run out of groups when players are scattered across the map. I've tried a few different setups to allow for enough units to be spawned, and the only way I've really gotten things working is to split the units between EAST, INDIE, and CIV and make them all friendly to each other.

Edited June 26, 2014 by Meatball

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

Because to setup proper behavior/movement scripts for them I have to have each unit in it's own group. And with the 144 / side limit, I quickly run out of groups when players are scattered across the map. I've tried a few different setups to allow for enough units to be spawned, and the only way I've really gotten things working is to split the units between EAST, INDIE, and CIV and make them all friendly to each other.

Hey Meatball,

correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't sideEnemy a side on its own? You could probably use that for zombies, no idea how it will work out though because they might be hostile to each other.

Then there's still sideFriendly...

[Tajin 348]

Then keep em on civilian side but don't make it hostile.

You can use "handleDamage" eventhandlers to prevent the negative scores.

There was a similar issue here: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?178995-Destroy-enemy-ammo-box-and-get-a-negative-score&p=2709212&viewfull=1#post2709212

[meatball 25]

@grumpy - I think you're talking about making the civvies 'renegades' by adjusting their rating. That covers the penalty for the negative score, but then _everyone_ will try to kill the renegade.

@Tajin - Excellent, I'll just add a similar eventHandler to the civilian units on creation. Thanks much for the direction!

[IndeedPete 1038]

Digged out some code snippet I used in a similar situation.

_x addRating -10000;
_x addEventHandler ['killed', {(_this select 1) addRating 1000}];

The first command will make them hostile to everyone (themselves included), the second will protect their killers from becoming renegades.

[f2k sel 164]

Going back to the original post I did get that working in A2 (sort of), you can open ammo boxes if Civilian are enemy by adding an addaction.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?177858-Ammo-Box-not-Accesible&highlight=can%27t+open+ammo+box