Sentry for Citizens2

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Sentry is a character plugin for the NPC plugin Citizens2. With Sentry, NPC's can be set to guard areas or act as bodyguards. Hostile targeting, retaliation, and a variety of options and stats allow a Sentry NPC to be customized to almost any guarding or combat situation.

Features

Sentries Can:

Attack monsters, players, and groups automatically. Sentry also has built-in support for Factions, Towny, War and SimpleClans
Kill, and be killed by, players, monsters, and the environment.
Guard locations, paths, players, or other NPCs.
Use ranged or melee weapons. Shoot arrows, fireballs, snowballs, eggs, lightning, and potions with deadly accuracy.
Be configured with stats such as Strength, Health, Armor, Speed, Range and even Night Vision!
Ride mounts!
Work with Denizen to become Bosses and Quest NPCs that run scripts upon death.

Installation

Install Citizens2 You must use the correct version for your version of Bukkit
Download the correct Sentry from the Citizens Wiki. You must use the correct version for your version of Bukkit
Place Sentry.jar in your minecraft /plugins/ directory. Start your server.
Create a NPC with Citizens and give it the 'sentry' trait.
- ```
 /npc create Town Guard --trait sentry 
```
Customize your Sentry's stats and options and you're ready to go.

A full list of commands and options is available on the Citizens 2 Wiki

Configuration

Sentry makes a config.yml in the plugins/Sentry folder on first load. Use this to tailor Sentry to your server. You can:

Set defaults for new sentries
Change or disable the item used for various attack types
Add potion effects like slow or blindness to certain Sentry weapons.
Add armor, strength and speed buffs to armor and weapons for Sentries.
Set critical hit chances and messages.

The config.yml is commented with instructions.

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Posted Jun 10, 2014
Hello, I run a small towny server and was wondering how you would make a npc of a npc town target enemy nations. I noticed there was a target type to do this (nationenemies:Name) but have no idea how you would actually do it.

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Posted Jun 9, 2014
how can I set that the guard only a specific group (group manager) attacks?

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Posted Jun 8, 2014
@Matysm

The fix for crackshot is pretty simple, although it will requires us to use an event priority that bukkit says not to. Also will need testing to make sure it doesn't affect anything else. Stay tuned.

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Posted Jun 4, 2014
@mcmonkey4eva

Ah I see, thank you for clearing that up. Well denizens can be targeted by crackshot guns so if you guys do write a full functioning script do tell me. In the meantime I suppose I am going to have to try and implement crackshot support myself. What reassures me is that normal citizens take crackshot gun damage.

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Posted Jun 4, 2014
@Matysm

You misinterpret the dev situation of these plugins.

Citizens is maintained by a single person (fullwall). He's not available much... generally when we need to check something Citizens-related, we just jump into the code ourselves. Sentry is by jrbudda, who's super inactive and only really shows up to add builds to the BukkitDev page. Lately, I've been doing the majority of the maintenance... jrbudda doesn't like other people changing around his plugin much, so I'm limited to just version-compatibility and fixing obvious bugs. Fixing a bug with CrackShot would probably involve adding code to specifically interact with CrackShot. Sentry is designed to readily take any damage sent through an EntityDamageByEntity Bukkit event... if crackshot isn't firing that, that's a crackshot problem, not Sentry. To fix it, we'd have to rework damage to be taken however crackshot applies it... which might work for crackshot, but then break compatibility with other plugins.

Regardless, any possible fix would require the assistance of a crackshot developer, and none seem to be coming forward to help with it.

I'd recommend looking into Denizen - http://wiki.citizensnpcs.co/Denizen - the NPC scripting engine, which is watched by an active community and a large number of devs (Aufdemrand in charge, me doing most of the code-work lately as auf is busy too, Morph/Jeebs around to help, and tons of random inexperienced programmers throwing their help in whenever needed) - and making sure CrackShot applies damage to Denizen vulnerable NPCs. Since Sentry development has been dropped to 'bare-maintenance', we're considering replacing Sentry entirely with a Denizen script - here's a basic example of that (an early attempt at doing the replacement, far from fully functional, and it requires a Denizen build that isn't released yet, as its development is spawning the need for a lot of new Denizen script features) - http://mcmonkey.org/haste/4996

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Posted Jun 4, 2014
First off let me start by saying this feature has already been requested by many and that it would satisfy more than just the community I am aiding. I was curious as to why guns from the crackshot plugin affect and hurt citizens but not sentries.The moment I make a citizen from citizen 2 a sentry, he becomes invulnerable to crackshot attacks. Considering you guys are friends with the guys at citizens it doesn't seem outlandish to propose that you try and have a powwow and see what they have that you don't. I was considering having my boys do it, but I came here first as both an act of respect to you guys and your plugin but also because I think that others besides I wish to see this change occur.

Thank you very much for your time.

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Posted May 16, 2014
Hey,

please help me with my problem (or fix/improve that): http://aikar.co/timings.php?url=7473068

I have set the logictask interval to 25, it doesnt makes a difference to the default worth 10.

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Posted May 15, 2014
@Conorserver

Make sure you have the appropriate Sentry version for 1.7.5 - you can find it on the wiki: http://wiki.citizensnpcs.co/Sentry

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Posted May 15, 2014
This is broken for me on 1.7.5 it doesn't let you make them sentries!

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Posted May 14, 2014
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Is it just me or is mounted sentries path broken? Sentries go apeshit if I try making a path (or don't move at all if I select the mount).

Using latest dev build.

Still a problem.

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Posted May 13, 2014
@Gr0up115

Updates are on the wiki: http://wiki.citizensnpcs.co/Sentry

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Posted May 13, 2014
When is this going to be updated? It's the only plugin that doesn't work for 1.7.9 for me..

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Posted May 12, 2014
@matze135

That's something to ask the War plugin devs about probably. The Sentry dev who tried to add plugin cross-support isn't active anymore.

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Posted May 11, 2014
Sorry for my english.I translate this messege.
A question to the NPC and the War Plugin.

When i hit a npc in the war arena come this chat message:
"Your target is not playing in a warzone",
Can you somehow get points if you have a Citizens NPC Kills ?
I have citizens 2.0.13#1128 and sentry 1.8.2 with spigot 1.7.9

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Posted May 10, 2014
@Romanovski

Woops, never patched the internal version number. Yeah, 1.8.2 will still show as '1.8.1'.

If your NPCs are disappearing, you have a different issue... I recommend getting help with that on the Citizens IRC: http://webchat.esper.net/?channels=citizens

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Posted May 10, 2014
I downloaded 1.8.2, deleted both Citezens and Sentry plugin folders, Citizens is 2.0.13 Snapshot. Once I start the server I see Sentry 1.8.1 still. I know I deleted the old Sentry.jar. I'm running 1.7.9 spigot server. The real problem is my NPCs vanish after server reboot. I know it usually means that the Sentry plugin is not up to date. Shouldn't the sentry show up 1.8.2 since that is what I downloaded instead of 1.8.1? Is the download link for 1.8.2 pointing to the right version of Sentry? By the way I googled my brains out regarding getting 1.8.2 for 2 days now before posting here.

Thanks for all your hard work. I love your plugin. Keep up the good work.

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Posted Apr 29, 2014
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You're running 1.7.5, not 1.7.2

The Sentry version you want is 1.8.1

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Posted Apr 29, 2014
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Cheers mate, much appreciated.

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Posted Apr 29, 2014
@mcmonkey4eva

Well that's what i did i guess YOU didn't read what i wrote on my post :

"I already tried with the v. 1.8.0 (12/10/13) and the v. 1.7.1 (11/07/1) but that's still not working.."

I still tried this morning with these versions ( Sentry 1.8.0 Release 1.7.2 ) which are supposed to match with my 1.7.2 CB ( i got the latest Citizens 2 build ) but anyway there are still some errors :

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/server/v1_7_R1/Packet

Don't tell me that i need to find my appropriate version on the "updates" box i already did and that's not working, i ain't the only one having errors like that.

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Posted Apr 28, 2014
@Xdecupl0r

Are you freakin' serious. Can you read my post before replying to it?

For the 9000th time:

FIND THE

APPROPRIATE

VERSION

OF SENTRY

FOR

YOUR SERVER

ON THE WIKI

http://wiki.citizensnpcs.co/Sentry

IN THE 'UPDATES' BOX

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