NPCs and Perl

[Mrwalsh]

After some gentle perusing, I couldn't find anything that related to this, unless I completely missed it.

Here's the scenario:

Mob001 is standing at the Crushbone entrance. After a certain period of time (time being the only trigger), I need him to run down the path towards the throneroom, attacking orcs as he comes within their reach (which I think can be done with factions, correct?). Now, multiply the number of Mob001 to be about 10, to simulate a sort of "war", NPC vs NPC.

What would be the best way to go about doing this sort of thing?

Thanks ahead of time.

[melquiades]

just an idea : if you want attackers to act as a 'party' in a war, do :

have one mob spawn in a regular fashion (the leader), then it spawns 9 more mobs in its spawn event. The new mobs will have quest::follow in their own spawn event, so you will keep the band together.

As for moving them after a while, setting a grid with a good delay on the first wp of the leader should do it (dunno if there are perl functions for saying 'start moving now' ...)

As a matter of atcking, factions should be ok imho.

i hope this helps. lemme know, i'd like to setup some kind of guard patrols in a city using this.