Special node when NPC sees the player bash/pick/unlock spell on door?

[NQNStudios]

It's a little weird that you can't steal without angering the town, but you can physically bash a door down in front of someone, and the only consequence for this is that in some scenarios, the dialog reflects that you broke in.

It could be cool to have a more interactive system for acknowledging the player's actions. (This could apply to stealing as well.)

What if town advanced details had some fields like this:

• Should being caught stealing make the town automatically hostile?
• Should being caught stealing call a town special node?
• Should being caught breaking a door (and maybe barriers/crumbling terrains too!) make the town automatically hostile?
• Should being caught breaking in somewhere call a town special node?

(Could we rig it so that special node could also call a 'Prevent Action' node that cancels the original action?)

And it might be nice if there was a pointer to the number of the townperson that witnessed the act.

I'm also not sure but I think attacking a friendly might make the whole town hostile even if there are no witnesses. That could maybe be changeable too.

[CelticMinstrel]

There is already a trap type that makes the town hostile. Maybe integrating a trap into a door would be a good idea? If you bash the door, the trap goes off no matter what, but if you pick the lock you have a chance to disarm it. Not sure about the Unlock spell, maybe it just skips the trap.

We definitely need to be able to replicate the behaviour of Erika's Tower. I think that would be something like a special node that's called when the town goes hostile?

I'm also not sure but I think attacking a friendly might make the whole town hostile even if there are no witnesses. That could maybe be changeable too.

I'd rather phrase it like "attacking a friendly always has a witness". The witness in this case is the victim themself.

I'm not sure we really need to change that. It sounds like a huuuge pain to work out. If you really need to have a friendly that can be killed, you can just put dialogue that allows you to insult them or something so that they attack first.

And it might be nice if there was a pointer to the number of the townperson that witnessed the act.

This is an interesting idea.

Should being caught stealing make the town automatically hostile?

So basically, you can mark a town as a "thieves' town" where it's not out-of-place to steal things? But it feels like that kinda defeats the point of marking items as not yours in the first place. Wouldn't it be easier to just not mark them as not yours in such a situation?

Should being caught stealing call a town special node?

See my mention of Erika's Tower, above. I'm not sure if there's a use-case for breaking it down by cause (ie, the reason the town went hostile). Even if there is, it might be easier done via context matching or similar (ie, a special node that checks why the town went hostile).

Should being caught breaking a door (and maybe barriers/crumbling terrains too!) make the town automatically hostile?

I'm not sure how useful this is. Which situation is more likely – that you want all doors in town to make the hostile if broken, or that you want certain especially important doors to do so? But I guess it can't hurt to have the extra options… as long as it's not too complicated.

Should being caught breaking in somewhere call a town special node?

I don't understand how this differs from the previous point.