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Posted by Malti on Thu 27 Apr 2006 06:01 PM — 6 posts, 23,372 views.

Malti USA Thu 27 Apr 2006 06:01 PM #0

Is there a way to make probability of a MOB getting a weapon as loot to make loot ultra-rare? I.E. the mob will only have the item 10% of the time...

David Haley USA Thu 27 Apr 2006 06:18 PM #1

You can do this with mudprogs on the death event. Just load the item if a rand() ifcheck is less than 10. It's not perfect -- the mob won't have the item until death. But it more or less works...

Malti USA Thu 27 Apr 2006 06:29 PM #2

Forgive my ignorance, but i dont know how to do the if check. Is there a list of things you can if check?

David Haley USA Thu 27 Apr 2006 07:08 PM #3

There should be helpfiles named "help ifchecks" or something like that. If I remember correctly, there are 3: "ifchecks", "ifchecks2", "ifchecks3".

Your ifcheck would look something like:

if rand() < 10
  mpoload vnum
endif

Note that I haven't written any mudprog for a while so I may have a few mistakes in there, but that's the general idea.

Malti USA Mon 01 May 2006 05:47 PM #4

if rand(10)
 mpoload 9901 1
 drop amulet
endif

This is the program I cam up with for random loot on the death_porg of a MOB. It does not work though, and I get wierd messages like "..it is out of your reach.." or "..but its under a pile of stuff..." that I never recieved before. Is there a way to put this in the corpse of the monster so that when it dies, the amulet is in the corpse if the rand condition is met?

David Haley USA Mon 01 May 2006 06:22 PM #5

Where are these messages appearing? They're typical of a bad mental state, that will give you funny messages like that. Normally, by oloading the object, it'll be in the mob's corpse to begin with, and you don't need to drop it.