Concerning Monsters vs Animals

[Xuri]

The COMBATANIMALATTACKCHANCE value in UOX.INI is pretty much worthless. Even with 1 as the value, it rarely takes more than a few seconds before the monsters viciously attack any animal they see nearby.

The reason? (I'm guessing) It's the percentage chance of attacking the animal PER NPC CYCLE. And seeing as how each NPC cycle lasts.. uh.. 0.1 seconds according to uox.ini - that's a lot of 1% checks in a few seconds

So.. is there a better way of achieving this? I guess one way would be to allow specifying very small chances.. like 0.05 or whatnot - but I tried that (and 0.99) and it doesn't seem to work at all when I used a decimal number.

[giwo]

Actually, we only check the NPC AI every short while, (according to my uox.ini it is 0.5 seconds). Thus it wouldn't be that.

I found the problem, however, someone wrote that little tidbit ass-backwards, thus causing 1 to give the most chance for attack, and 100 the smallest.

I am changing that as I speak, though. So in the future it will be a percentage chance, from 0 to 100.

[Xuri]

1 or 100, they still attack the animals within the second after spawning =P