theworldofdreams.com

My VG hunts undead alot and a couple of days ago an idea came to me.Would it be possible for henchies to recognize silver weapons?Reasoning for this is not all henchies have the silver weapon the same category(ie:my husband has one with a silver bow and the other with a silver one-handed)and it would be great if we could command them to arm silver and they know which weapon to equip. Is this a do-able?

I think that's possible and a good idea
Maybe you'd have to tell it the first time which weapon "silver" is

*bump*

Yo D-man, what do you think?

re-bumped

Well, I can see a lot of confusion from this, since its a lot more difficult to figure out what the correct weapon would be in a given situation. If the henchman has a silver weapon of quality and a regular sword of maiming, one isn't necessarily better than the other. Then, in addition, you'd have to have them trying to decide whether they should switch from one handed to two handed, plus trying to remember to switch back to regular once they're fighting a non-undead creature. Though, of course, that assumes that the regular weapon is better than the silver one - what if they have a silver weapon of might and a regular weapon of maiming?

Basically, its a pretty complicated situation and I don't know if I could write AI that would do a decent job of making those sort of decisions. In those sort of situations, I think its usually best to keep the AI out of the way of the player's decisions.