Faction Pick Script (C++?)

[Krazymoo]

Hey,

I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to make an NPC (Well, 4) which enables you to essentially pick what Faction you want to join.

Say if you've made a horde character, and you want to join the Alliance, or a new faction I've created, you speak to the faction recruiter, and you get invited into their faction.

So, your Faction ID would change, display ID would change also. I'm not sure if this would be C++ or Lua, and if it was could anyone managed to script it? Will reward them somehow.

Thanks,

[Aellya]

Should be possible with an lua gossip script, but i've not made anything like that myself.

Are you sure it's even possible? From my basic knowledge of the code, the faction and team checks are linked to dbc entries so you'll need to change alot of stuff to get it working. Hopefully i'm wrong though

[The-Eradicator]

From my basic knowledge of the code, the faction and team checks are linked to dbc entries so you'll need to change alot of stuff to get it working. Hopefully i'm wrong though

I don't think that's the case, considering Game Masters are set to friendly with both factions.

[Aellya]

They could be a hardcoded exception, but if so that would mean it's possible without dbc edits which is a good thing

Had a look through faction.cpp (ArcEmu) which handles all the isHostile/isAttackable code and it looks fairly straight forward, however alot of stuff such as initial reputations and quests are handled by class so even if you changed your orc to stormwind rep it still won't be able to access the quests and will still have the default orc rep (hated by stormwind, etc...)

It would probably be easier to just make a human character with it's faction, rep and class then change the display to an orc model. The only problem then would be storing the displayid change as it's not stored anywhere (it's set automatically based on the class/sex of the char)
With a char of a third 'team' i guess you'll have to make new reputation default values in the dbc files for the class and edit all the quests to allow them to be taken (or add code in the quest handler to include them as an exception)

Would be very intresting if you manage to pull this one off

[Krazymoo]

Well, we've wiped all the NPC's etc out from the database, so we're only working with NPC's, Quests etc we've made ourselfs. Would it still be possible just to edit the "faction" of the NPC's we're using for say, the Alliance side, and have the script (When you want to join the Alliance side) change the Characters Faction to the Alliance one (Set by us)...

The Horde and the other 2 factions will also have different factions (We'll make sure their classed as 'hostile' to all 4 factions.

Simple version of what Im saying is : If it's all custom, will just editing the factions to differnet ones work for the "hostile/not hostile" part, and having the script change the characters factions to the previously set ones?

[Aellya]

It might do, the easiest way is to try it and find out

[rusfighter]

C++ isnt hard , you need to watch and read some tuts

[thebigman]

it can be done with luahyparc which is standard in arcemu/ascent/aspire builds i believe?

involving sending a query to i forgot which database. but you could change the faction with it. and you could ofc use gossip for the display part as well.