Mercenaries

[bad_captain]

Also, I think I have everything to put the correct stances in. Is there anything else that needs to be done besides modifying the packet size when creating it to account for the extra stances? Besides actually loading the correct stances, of course.. I'm in no hurry to add them, but wanted to check so I knew what changes would be needed. Passive and Balanced are fine for what we need to do yet.

[trevius]

Originally Posted by bad_captain

Also, I think I have everything to put the correct stances in. Is there anything else that needs to be done besides modifying the packet size when creating it to account for the extra stances? Besides actually loading the correct stances, of course.. I'm in no hurry to add them, but wanted to check so I knew what changes would be needed. Passive and Balanced are fine for what we need to do yet.

Nothing special needs to be done to the packets for stances to be added as long as you don't exceed 5 total stances. Right now, due to the variable sized packet issues, I just have it hard coded to globally load 5 stance iterations into the packet. Then, once it is encoded, it only uses the number of iterations that are set in the stance count field. I did the same thing with merc types. I have it currently set to load 3 of them, but only use as many as are set in the merc type counts when the encode happens. Everything else gets discarded and is not populated anyway.

If we need to increase the number of merc types or stances at some point, I think we just have to adjust the related structs in eq_packet_structs.h.

[bad_captain]

Okay, good to know.

5 stances should be okay, I believe. I'll have to check for any that might have more. Caster has the most - Passive, Balanced, Burn, and BurnAE for sure, maybe Efficient or Aggressive (I don't have them right in front of me). Healers have Passive, Balanced, Efficient and Reactive.

We will need to increase Merc Types, though. While I'm not even sure if they have any Master Mercenaries, there are a few Mercenary Merchants who have 2 races, so they will have at least 4 (6 if you include master).

I was able to get mercs to follow last night, and dismiss and suspend mostly working. Also, I fixed a couple of issues that allow the illusion packet to work (purchasing mercs from Guardian Norerd in PoK who needs to be changed to be a froglok now results in a froglok merc). I still need to add the SQL to fix the mercenary merchants, but i know him and Mercenary Mdjai in Crescent Reach work.