This is not incorrect but is rather out of date. A better doc will hopefully be written soon. How attacks are performed. ========================== An attack can be started in two ways. Either the player use the 'kill' command, or he is attacked. Some of the more hostile spells will start attacks also. The kill command in defined in /basic/living/attack.c. It will check that the victim is present. All victims currently being attacked are stored in an array. If a new player joins the fight against someone, he will be added last. If the victim specified in the attack command is already in the array of all attacking objects, then that object will be moved first. Otherwise, the array will be extended, with the new victim first. There is an internal flag, "any_attack", that is set to true as long as there are any objects in the array of victims. Next thing that happens, is that the general heart_beat of the player object will call continue_attack() every time. continue_attack() will check the internal flag if there is anything to attack, and return immediately if not. Otherwise, a function clean_up_attackers() will be called that will check that the objects in the array of victims are still present and alive. If that clean_up returns with no opponents left, we return. But if there is a living and present opponent remaining, we call execute_attack to take a swing at him. A check will be made that the player has some weapon set up. If not, will will have the default "fists" as weapon. The weapon will be asked for how much damage it will do. The player's skills will get the chance to improve as well.
