Permarooted mobs

[Estalia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa-YXWSRsXs at the 2:44 the tank is the shrunk human warrior who is not the closest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8fLD...eature=related at the 1 minute mark, im not sure who is tanking, but it isn't any of the people who are close and behind the mob and noone is standing in front of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH-W7fPES9E at about 1:10 you can see the dwarf warrior getting knocked back and not being the closest, but yelinak doesn't spin to someone else.

I put in 10 years on live and really don't remember any of the killable npc's who were permarooted attacking the closest pc. I am not saying there isn't one, but most of the permarooted mobs used in the top "raid" zones from Kunark to GoD had aggro tables. If they didn't they would be saying give the warrior a shield and who care what kind of threat he has, he won't be loosing aggro.

[trevius]

I don't think people have any issue with adding the option to set perma-rooted mobs to use a normal hate table vs attacking the closest as they currently do. Seems like there are 2 debates; One being that there is already an option to just set the runspeed to a very low rate to simulate perma-rooted with the same properties as an unrooted mob. The other is that a rule could be added to set it to either handle it one way or the other server-wide for all NPCs.

One solution that would work for both would be to make it a special attack code. Though, I think the simplest solution would be to make it a rule that allows you to toggle if you want ALL perma-rooted mobs to act the same way as reported from Live, or if you want to leave the option to have some attack the closest (runspeed 0.0) and some attack the highest hate (runspeed 0.000001).

Maybe something like this would work out for everyone:

MobAI.cpp

Index: trunk/EQEmuServer/zone/MobAI.cpp
===================================================================
--- trunk/EQEmuServer/zone/MobAI.cpp	(revision 2021)
+++ trunk/EQEmuServer/zone/MobAI.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@

 	if (engaged) 
 	{
-		if (IsRooted())
+		if (IsRooted() && (RuleB(Aggro, PermaRootedAttacksNearest) || !permarooted))
 			SetTarget(hate_list.GetClosest(this));
 		else
 		{

And this to the aggro section of common/ruletypes.h

RULE_BOOL ( Aggro, PermaRootedAttacksNearest, true )