Fixed Random Indians get European Names

[ANSEL]

Methinks Cape Franco at hispaniola has lots of Indians.

A lot of Indians yes, but no Indian weapon. They all have European names?
PS. I see the Pyramid now is open, I will have a look inside.

 

[ANSEL]

Could the fact that they now are wearing European names have any negative effect ?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Could the fact that they now are wearing European names have any negative effect ?

Doubt it. But it IS weird. Let me make a new Bug Tracker issue for that.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

They are supposed to be "Akellani native" through this code in LEnc_monsters.c:

  case "skeleton":
      isSet = true;

     if(chr.model == "mummy" || chr.model == "native")     //ccc 10.2
     {
       gunProb = 0.0; // Swindler 05-10-10: mummies and natives don't have guns
       chr.name = VC_MUMMY_NAME; // ccc10.2
       chr.lastname = VC_MUMMY_LNAME; // ccc10.2
       if(VC_MUMMY_NOMONEY) chr.money = 0; // ccc10.2
       GiveItem2Character(chr, "indian"+ makeint(1 + rand(15)) );   // jun05 booty for stealing
     }

Do they still get random Indian trinkets for looting? If so, that code IS still executed.

Next query is for @Levis: Is there any spot in the Levelling/PostInit code where 'SetRandomNameToCharacter' could get executed on these characters afterwards?

 

[ANSEL]

Do they still get random Indian trinkets for looting?

Indeed they do.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Indeed they do.

Thanks for confirming. Then they MUST be correctly named at some point.
Which means they probably get renamed afterwards somehow.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

@Levis: Do you have any clue on this one?

 

[Levis]

well the model is "indian" with a number behind it now instead of native

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Maybe it is then THIS code that gives them their stuff instead?

  case "mummy":
     isSet = true;
     chr.sex = "skeleton";
     gunProb = 0.0; // Swindler 05-10-10: mummies don't have guns   
     LAi_NPC_Equip(chr, sti(chr.rank), true, false);
     if(VC_MUMMY_NOMONEY) chr.money = 0; // NK
     GiveItem2Character(chr, "indian"+ makeint(1 + rand(15)) );   // jun05 booty for stealing
     GiveItem2Character(chr, "mineral"+ makeint(1 + rand(2)) );   // jun05 booty for stealing
     break;

If it is indeed the other code, we could have "mummies" and "natives" given different names as if they belong to different tribes.
So we've got the "Akellanis" whose names are a brilliant Easter Egg for anyone who knows where the game came from.
A name for the other tribe should probably be either "Arawak" or "Carib". I think the Arawak are the peaceful ones and the Carib are cannibals.

@ANSEL: Can you confirm if the European name natives carried an Indian object PLUS another random item or ONLY an Indian object?

 

[ANSEL]

@ANSEL: Can you confirm if the European name natives carried an Indian object PLUS another random item or ONLY an Indian object?

First I will say that the "Arawak tribe" still is named as Arawak Indians, I dont remember where the other tribes (maybe " Carib")
occurs. Im not quite sure of the random objects, but I think they got both; it could be seen in the savegame I posted about the
temple ( pyramid).
Ps. I added a savegame just before you are going to the temple, there will be a lot of indians.

 

[ANSEL]

And here is a savegame with Arawak Indians:

 

[ANSEL]

The name of the indigenous people is" Taino " ( a Arawak people) and the "Caribs" who lived
in the lesser caribian was there enemies. But the old people who build the culture was the Tainos,
so the right name for the mummies must be taino.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I did some slight cleaning up and generalizing of the code that generates random indians.
Now they're back to being called "Akellani natives". Extract attached to PROGRAM\LandEncounters to try.

@Levis: I would recommend you have a look at this file!
It looks quite needlessly complicated now and it contains some ancient stuff that related to skills and abilities.
So you might want to look that through and remove everything that serves no real purpose.

 

[Levis]

I did some slight cleaning up and generalizing of the code that generates random indians.
Now they're back to being called "Akellani natives". Extract attached to PROGRAM\LandEncounters to try.

@Levis: I would recommend you have a look at this file!
It looks quite needlessly complicated now and it contains some ancient stuff that related to skills and abilities.
So you might want to look that through and remove everything that serves no real purpose.

It's on my todo list but it will be done after the public release.
The Post-Init runs after these things are applied so any skill related stuff set there is still fixed by my functions.