NPC selecting a specific player from a group
 

Anyone know of a good way to code an event where an NPC who is fighting a group of people will select a player randomly out of that group and cast a spell on it?

I am not so concerned about the random part or the spell but just if there is a way to have an npc to select which player in a group it would attack.

I don't think it is possible for it to pick anything other than it's primary target and maybe the rampage or secondary target. But, if there is a way, you probably would be best to look for it in the quest object wiki here:

http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...a=QuestObjects

I'm not sure if this is quite what you're looking for, but you could use a Quest Global to select someone at random from the Hate List:

I think you could then use another Quest Global to cast the spell on them:

That should cast a spell with a Spell ID of 123 on a random person in the hate list.

You might be able to find a way to work back from that Client ID given by GetHateRandom to get the group ID, then find out who's in it, but I wasn't able to find anything like that just browsing through the quest globals.

Hope this helps.

I've changed up GroupCount to account for names and also used count and member id of group to do something like this. Basically, if you're number 2 in a group of 4, I'd have a random integer of 1-GroupCount if Group. Get the client name and perform the action. It can make raid encounters a little sticky;p I'm trying to dig up the code, but no dice yet. Will keep it posted.