Can we create a town guard ?

[BuzzLEquerre]

Hi everyone,
I would like to know if it is possible to make an NPC named "Guard" attack all enemies that enter the assigned area (here it is a city).
I thought about take_a_party but I can't deactivate it from the npc as soon as the player leaves the village. If anyone has an idea of how to do this, I would appreciate the help.

The town (In red the area that I would like to protect with the guard ) :

And my guard NPC def :
npc_chain_guard.txt

Have a good evening :)

[dorkster]

I think I thought of a way to do this. take_a_party only works via NPC dialog, but we can trigger interaction with an NPC via a map event. We can create a dialog option that has no actual dialogue, and make it the only option via a campaign status. Here's how it'd work:

# npc_chain_guard.txt

#first dialog
[dialog]
topic=Talk
requires_not_status=chain_guard_defend
her=Hello, what are you doing alone in these dark days?
take_a_party=true
set_status=chain_guard_defend

# this should be the only dialog option available when triggering the map event
[dialog]
take_a_party=false
requires_status=chain_guard_defend
unset_status=chain_guard_defend

Then on the map, add events anywhere the player can enter/exit the town. Set the npc property to the path of npc_chain_guard.txt and set requires_status to chain_guard_defend.

[dorkster]

You're getting stuck in dialog with the npc. repeat=true will make the event trigger every frame that the player is in the trigger area, but only if the requirements are met. So the intention is to use requires_status to gate this, and then have the npc dialog with unset_status. This should result in the event triggering only once. You can try adding a msg property to the map event to show some text in the HUD log. Only one message should appear when you walk into the area.

If you still are having trouble, you can upload the latest copies of your map and npc txt files for me to take a look at.

[BuzzLEquerre]

I added a "msg" to my event and actually it seems to repeat itself in loop, I think this is a status error but when searching I do not find, here is the file . txt of the zone :
ouest_river.txt

[dorkster]

Looks correct. The only thing I can think of is that the path to the npc file in the map event is incorrect. Can you reproduce getting stuck and post your flare_log.txt (it's in your Flare settings folder).

[dorkster]

Sorry, wrong link for the location of the log file:
https://github.com/flareteam/flare-engine?tab=readme-ov-file#settings

[BuzzLEquerre]

I looked in the logs it was indeed a file location error now it works ! thank you so mush !! :)