How do I make mobs friendly?

[Khrystina]

I have an idea in my mind for an AE mission, and for good and valid reasons I want the NPC mobs - traditionally hostile - to be friendly to the players.  

 

1.  Is this possible?

2.  If so, how do I do it?

 

Thanks!

[cranebump]

If you set them as patrols you can set them as allies. If I recall correctly, you can also select the minions surrounding an Ally to be friendly as well. Don’t believe there’s any way to make the inherent mobs all friendly. But if you set mish to empty, then use patrols .or allies, that should allow you to create groups that won’t attack the player. 

[cranebump]

I’d show a screenshot but afk for the night.

[Frozen Burn]

In addition to the above suggestions, you can also set a boss and it's surrounding minions to friendly as well.  Just be sure you do not set them as being "required" objectives to complete -- even though you do not get flagged in creator, the player has no way to actually complete objective with a "friendly" boss and minion group.

 

You can fill the entire map with friendlies like this.  Just look at the map allotment for front, middle, and back and fill it up, less your actual objectives you want the player to do.

 

Be careful with friendly patrols as they will fight with static enemies that you may have in the mission -- unless that is what you want them to do, of course.  

[Ankylosaur]

Also, if memory serves, defendable objects can be surrounded by friendlies. The map and the attacking mob (if thats an option) must be set to empty.

 

This could mean SWAT vans surrounded by police with SWAT shields, or cargo trucks with people carrying crates, or mainframes with lab techs with clipboards - some nice window dressing options...