Idea - mobs that don't work in KissAssist_Info.ini file

[joojoobee]

There are certain mobs that don't seem to work on the "ignore" when you put them in the KissAssist-info ignore line. In Chardok, "Verrin De'mure" is one of them. Possibly he has another "name" or the " ' " is messing things up.

To address this, for each time I would camp that region (camping cloaks for my toons) I would target him, get his ID, then put an "ignore" line of code in a few places to make him "invisible".

I was thinking of writing up a more general minor bit of generic code for such pesky mobs-- basically for "hard to ignore" mobs the idea is that when in that zone the script periodically scans for that mob name, gets the ID, stores it in a small array along with other such "hard to ignore" mobs (usually only one or two per zone, if any), and then has a parallel "ignore" code like the regular ignore code using names.

I think the ignore code is in the Validate subroutine... so it could go there-- simply check mob names against the ignore IDs that are dynamically determined for the "hard to ignore" mobs/targets.

Just an idea. Happy to code it up later this week if people think it's a good idea. If you can give me names of such pesky mobs and their zone names, I can put together a mini ini file.

JJB

 

[dreamflux]

Did you add these through /addignore or manually? Perhaps the apostrophe is a tilde... Or vice versa.

 

[joojoobee]

It was added manually in the file itself. There's a couple of such non-ignorable mobs. There's a chest or something in Shard's Landing I recall as well. And others where there's no obvious reason the name is weird.

tilde... good idea to check when I get back in game.

 

[Maskoi]

The first thing i would like to do is identify why its not recognizing the name.

 

[joojoobee]

The first thing i would like to do is identify why its not recognizing the name.

Yeah, when I am next in Chardok I will /target him and get Cleanname, etc. and output directly to log to check the tilde idea. Like I said, there's a box or chest or something on the north side of Shard's landing that had the same problem, but I don't recall if there was an apostrophe or tilde in that one. I seem to recall a problem with some normal named mobs.

Garry

 

[Maskoi]

Kiss already should be ignoring boxes by the Spawn[].Type tag unless it had a name MQ2 couldn't process.

 

[lowres09]

I had a similar issue with trying to figure out how to add "Nareneth, the Heart Tree". I gave up just cause I aint got the smarts. =)

 

[aspire2008]

The compile may have to support names with comman or tilda, it could be the vanilla and RG compile doesn't support it?

Using a custom bazaar macro, this was an issue for the compile I use several years back, when searching strings, the function had to be added to the compile for it to work. Could that be the same issue here?

 

[joojoobee]

The mob in Shard's might have also been "A fallen soldier" or something like that. I'll go check when I have time. To be fair, they are so far and few between it's not worth a ton of effort thinking about the whole affair, but I just thought it worthwhile to mention. The tilde idea I will go look into.

 

[mroutlaw]

i cant get it to ignore "a Crate of weapons" atm its annoying

 

[XiroFS]

Will kiss be updated to support commas in names?
"Nareneth, the Heart Tree" etc issues are quite annoying. I tried to use the /addpull on NPCs with comma in their names.
This is the Error: No NPCs detected. Nothing added to list.