My Faction is hostile to itself?

[SicariusSummoned]

So I made a faction for a set of leveled NPCs I'm going to have the player interact with and I found that despite all being members of the same faction they spawned as hostile to each other. The only way I was able to make them stop shooting themselves was by setting the faction as its own ally. Is this the proper way to do things or did I miss something that would have kept them from behaving this way?

[werr92]

There're only 3 parameters thar determine NPC's behavior.

 

1 - relationship between factions (neutral / ally / enemy)

 

2 - level of aggression (unaggressive / aggressive / very aggressive / frenzy)

 

3 - who they help (no one / allies / friends & allies)

[BlahBlahDEEBlahBlah]

Aggro radius can sometimes have a weird, unintentional and bug-like (I swear, I cannot explain why it would, so I call it bug) effect on an NPCs reaction to Neutral NPCâs, too (even if same faction).

 

(Just throwing it out there)

[SKKmods]

Yes you always have to set reciprocal faction relations even on itself, and with two factions just to be double safe I always force the calls on both factions;

pThisFaction.SetAlly(pThisFaction, false, false) ;ally
pThisFaction.SetAlly(pThatFaction, false, false) ;ally
pThatFaction.SetAlly(pThisFaction, false, false) ;ally

You have also hit the two neutral gotchas to look out for ... which is why I avoid neutral and only use deterministic friend, ally, enemy for spawns:

 

Aggression(2) Very Aggressive will attack Enemies and NEUTRALS on sight.

 

Aggro Radius will attack Enemies and NEUTRALS in radius

[SicariusSummoned]

Yes you always have to set reciprocal faction relations even on itself, and with two factions just to be double safe I always force the calls on both factions;

pThisFaction.SetAlly(pThisFaction, false, false) ;ally
pThisFaction.SetAlly(pThatFaction, false, false) ;ally
pThatFaction.SetAlly(pThisFaction, false, false) ;ally

You have also hit the two neutral gotchas to look out for ... which is why I avoid neutral and only use deterministic friend, ally, enemy for spawns:

 

Aggression(2) Very Aggressive will attack Enemies and NEUTRALS on sight.

 

Aggro Radius will attack Enemies and NEUTRALS in radius

Oh! I missed the neutrals. Thank you so much!