> > > If this is what is actually happening, could someone point out where in > > > the code I could modify so when I alter one mob's name, all of them > > > will not. > > > > I'd suggest waiting unil J. Elson finishes OLC... you'd have o copy the > > mob into a new one and change it's name... only way it'd work, as far as > > I been able to tell. > > > I see, just as I thought.. It would seem that the whole struct char_data > * mob is a pointer pointing to mob_proto[x]. If this is so, then why > when you change the integers, all of the mobs don't change if mob is a > pointer itself?. Err, no, that's not true. If the entire mob was a pointer to the prototype, nothing would work. When you killed one Cityguard the rest of them would die too! A copy of all the data is made for each mob, but the *string data* is not copied deeply; i.e., the pointers are duplicated instead of the strings themselves being duplicated. The short answer is that yes, all mobs share strings, but they don't share anything else. Jeremy
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