Here is a question which Dee would know the answer to:
In a magic spell, I chose "Allies" as the Target for a spell, but when I tried it out, no one seemed to be allies (including NPCs with zero stamina). So the question is this: What is an ally and how do I assign allied status to an NPC?
-Jeff
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on a very related topic (and i feel really unintelegent asking this as well)... is there any way to create a party of characters that you can assign yourself controle of? sorry i'm dumb. 
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Originally posted by Paploo:
**Here is a question which Dee would know the answer to:
In a magic spell, I chose "Allies" as the Target for a spell, but when I tried it out, no one seemed to be allies (including NPCs with zero stamina). So the question is this: What is an ally and how do I assign allied status to an NPC?
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This is currently meaningful only for hostile NPCs. If you give such a spell to a hostile NPC, it will affect all other hostile NPCs when cast. Until Coldstone has a party system, it won't be of any use to the player.
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Originally posted by Dee:
**This is currently meaningful only for hostile NPCs. If you give such a spell to a hostile NPC, it will affect all other hostile NPCs when cast. Until Coldstone has a party system, it won't be of any use to the player.
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So in theory, you could have an NPC with its fighting style set to "passive" (attacking only if attacked) and this NPC could follow the player character around and attack other NPCs if they attack it first?
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Originally posted by markborok:
**So in theory, you could have an NPC with its fighting style set to "passive" (attacking only if attacked) and this NPC could follow the player character around and attack other NPCs if they attack it first?
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which brings about the question can npcs attack each other
lets say i wanted a ravenous pack of dogs fighting and attacking each other?
test out a similar scenario
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Originally posted by Dee:
**Until Coldstone has a party system
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Does this meen you're working on an expansion that gives Coldstone that capability?
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Originally posted by Captian LeGrenadier:
**Does this meen you're working on an expansion that gives Coldstone that capability?
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It'll depend entirely on how well the first Coldstone is received, I believe. Register quick! 
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Since we'e kind of on the topic of a party system... If a change like that was released could it be a plugin, or would the change be drastic enough to make us download a whole new version?
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I imagine that there would have to be a lot of code changes to the Application itself, so that part would have to be downloaded. Of course, just downloading an update to the Application wouldn't be that bad.
Of course, I imagine a change like this would probably come with a relatively big upgrade to the application, so other things would probably be incorporated (like the sought after action for changing NPC stats through an event, and maybe even the ability to enter variables into more of the text fields that normally only take numerical values).
-Jeff
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