Spellpack and SCS AI Options

[DavidW]

I'm in the process of revising the AI in the original Sword Coast Stratagems, and I've probably got time to make some modest allowance for the possibility of Spellpack being installed. It would be helpful to know:

(i) some foolproof way of detecting if Spellpack is installed;
(ii) your advice on how clerics, druids and mages optimised for the old spellset ought to be rethinking their strategy and spell choices if Spellpack is installed (L1-5 spells only).

If this turns out to be viable, I'll extend it to SCSII in the fullness of time.

[SirLancelot]

QUOTE(DavidW @ Aug 17 2008, 05:24 PM)
Regarding Call Lightning, I'm quite surprised those blocks work - have you tested them? (The game handles offscreen targetting pretty suboptimally).


Yes, they work. You cannot really do elaborate checks unless you summon an invisible .cre offscreen that sets your LastSeenBy() for you and starts shouting.

But in cases like this, a brute check does the intended job very well.

The "summon an invisible .cre" seems to have so many uses... it's not just for shouting, but for targetting purposes as well. I remember Horred implemented it within BP scripts in a suboptimal way. It had a lot of merit, though.