npcflock

Description

This defines all the flocks of NPCs that spawn in the game.

A flock is a set of NPCs that will spawn. For example, at different points, one point at top-most northern point of old Shinjalar, a group of industrial bots will spawn. Then, just right (east) to it (for some reason), Nomquol bots will spawn.
Each of these are flocks. If you attack a flock, others of the same flock will come to aid. Other flocks will simply ignore. There are many flocks per island.

Flocks are also used to define bots that spawn in incursions, as opposed to fixed spawns.

Table Structure

ID	Type	Name	Description	Properties	Links
1	Number	id	Index number of the entry.	PRIMARY, UNIQUE
2	String	name	A human-readable name for the spawn.
3	Number	presenceid	id of npc presenceto which this belongs.		npcpresence
4	Number	flockmembercount	number of this npc
5	Number	definition	the npc definition, an entitydefault		EntityDefaults
6	Number	spawnOriginX	The x co-ordinate of the center point of the zone that the flock spawns in.
7	Number	spawnOriginY	The y co-ordinate of the center point of the zone that the flock spawns in.
8	Number	spawnrangeMin	???
9	Number	spawnrangeMax	???
10	Number	respawnseconds	The number of seconds it takes for a member of the spot to be respawned.
11	Number	totalspawncount	The total number in the flock???
12	Number	homerange	The range the bots will only travel within when wandering.
13	String	note	Internal notes.
14	Number	respawnmultiplierlow	???	FOREIGN
15	Boolean	enabled	Does this flock spawn?
16	Boolean	iscallforhelp	Will the other members of the flock attack if a member is attacked? ???
17	Number	behaviourType	The flock behaviour that this flock uses.
18	Object	npcflockloot	???old mission item drops from static spawn	FOREIGN	npcflockloot
19	Object	npcpoolpresetvalues	???	FOREIGN	npcpoolpresetvalues

Notes

table structure

• npcflock defines all the NPC ratting nodes that exist.
• npcflockloot is the drop tables for each flock. Typically for old mission items.
• npckills logs the number of times that a particular flock have been killed, more specifically how many bots killed split by flock.
• npcloot is the drop tables for each NPC.
• npcpoolpresets is the spawn pool definitions.
• npcpoolpresetvalues is the pools actual definition; where the "bot X spawned in Y flock using Z preset" values are kept.
• npcpresence is the parent collection of 0-n flocks
• npcrandomflockpool ???
• npcsafespawnpoints ???
• npcspawn is the parent collection of 0-n presences

respawnseconds

This is recorded on a per-flock. So, if you take 20 seconds to kill a bot, and one respawns every 30 seconds, and that there are 5 bots. You'll exhaust (have to wait 10 seconds between kills) after 4 minutes of constant killing (assuming you only target one bot at a time, and take that long to kill one on average.

behaviourType

Defines the attacking behaviour.

Value	Meaning
0	Passive
1	Neutral (Only attacks if attacked)
2	Aggresive (Seeks out players)

See Also

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