Posted by Pendragon_Surtr on October 24, 1999 at 21:23:27:
In Reply to: Rager/mercenary thing posted by TheWatcher on October 24, 1999 at 18:59:45:
> Here's my problem: > They made them charmies out of convienience because it was easy to code. I have had ragers tell me to let the poor merc go because I had him under some spell like he was my slave, well, they are there to make a living..is this so hard to grasp? It happens in RL all the time assuming some of you are familiar with RL. > So I ask the imms to change the code so it doesn't say (charmed). Maybe it could say (hireling) or something so a rager won't have an excuse to attack a human warrior who just hired a human merc to carry goods for him. The way it is now, they are magically charmed slaves that you buy. If they were to change them to mercenary's, then you would have to pay the mercenary. Code it so every 24 ticks, one theran day, it charges you the amount that you originally shelled out for the merc.
> Ragers hate spells and therefore attacks any mercenaries and people with them for using magic because they have a (charmed) by them and we all know charm is a spell.
> This is retarded. We can all grasp the idea of someone going and hireing a companion to carry things, fight with us, hence the term "mercenary".