Limiting players in a room

[trevius]

Well, part of the problem is that even though Proximities are useful, they are also very limited and don't handle certain things as well as they should. Really, IMO, the best way to do it would be to run the clientsearch check that you can get from the Rampage script that Kayen posted here:

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=27850

You can do distance checks and even count in real time how many players are in range.

Then, probably what I would do would be to assign temporary qglobals to each person that enters the proximity. And, have it set an incrementing value for the qglobal so that it starts at 1 and goes up just like the enter_count variable does.

Then, you can use the client search code from the Rampage script to look for players and check their qglobals. If their value is greater than 6, it kicks them out.

Though, this would mean that once the limit of people are reached in the proximity, they would be the only chars that could do that event until their qglobal ran out.

You could also use a combination of that script along with the player.pl and have the player.pl do an EVENT_EXIT_ZONE or whatever the event for leaving a zone is called. And, when they leave the zone (die/gate/whatever), it deletes their temporary global and makes it available to the next person to enter.

There really are quite a few options depending on how creative you are about it and exactly what you are trying to accomplish.

If you wanted a simple way to handle it, you could just set the zone in the zones table to only allow a max of how many players you want to limit the encounter to. But, if you are only wanting to limit it for certain NPCs and not the whole zone, that wouldn't really work. Again, it depends on exactly what you are trying to do. I figured I would just give you a few ideas about things to consider. With enough creativity, a ton of stuff is possible that you wouldn't normally think would be possible.

[Shendare]

Huh. So EntityList->GetClientByID() actually takes more of an Index as a parameter than an ID. Interesting.

[chrsschb]

Trev, your idea sounds good, but way beyond my skill level.

The encounter is inside of a public zone. The boss is located in a room and I want only X number of people to be able to attempt him at once. If someone dies, or leaves, another person should be able to enter.

The way I have above is really simple, but slow and exploitable.

[ChaosSlayerZ]

i could sugest a crude work around to create a sort of "mini-zone" inside a public zone

make the door leading to mobs room to be perma locked
put either a quest npc or an inviseable triger in front on the door which will allow only 6 peopel in by tagging them with a temp flag

this way NO one who doesnt have a flag can get in.
If person dies inside a room- he can be rezzed from inside i guess

in additon block casting of spells like COH


reset encounter after some min time has passed or if mob dies

THE only problem if zone itself doesn't have ANY doors actualy aviable - like Ruj or Guk LDONs.
BTW if anyone can sugest how to load ANy door into guk, mir or ruj LDON- i will be eternaly grateful =)

[chrsschb]

Originally Posted by ChaosSlayerZ

i could sugest a crude work around to create a sort of "mini-zone" inside a public zone

make the door leading to mobs room to be perma locked
put either a quest npc or an inviseable triger in front on the door which will allow only 6 peopel in by tagging them with a temp flag

this way NO one who doesnt have a flag can get in.
If person dies inside a room- he can be rezzed from inside i guess

in additon block casting of spells like COH


reset encounter after some min time has passed or if mob dies

THE only problem if zone itself doesn't have ANY doors actualy aviable - like Ruj or Guk LDONs.
BTW if anyone can sugest how to load ANy door into guk, mir or ruj LDON- i will be eternaly grateful =)

This is a big and open room, a door really isn't an option (and it lacks the ability to drop the count).

[Congdar]

EVENT_SLAY for when the npc kills a pc would be a good place to decrement the count.

[nosfentora]

Is the room completely open or is there a 'doorway' that they need to pass through?

You could put an invisible npc @ the doorway and set it's proximity to be a line / ellipse rather than a circle.

quest::set_proximity($x, $x, $y - 100, $y + 100);

If the room is an open-air room, you could bound the area by 4 invisible npcs, setting their proximities to create a square/rectangle around the room.

What about a hailable npc to get in, flagging the hailer, and using the boundaries set by invisible npcs?