Hello once again,

Pre-Post Request for Lummox JR's Help?

This time I am having trouble with my combat system and targeting. The combat proc that for so long housed the complex damage calculation for macro based combat is no longer sufficient, it causes run time errors when it pulls a death check proc that requires item spawning and at this point in my alteration of it, it just won't work properly. If you ever played Ultima Online, that is a generalized basis for where I am headed with Imersia. I need help in creating a targeting system that is flexible, concise, and properly coded.

In the target system I need;

Click based selection of a target, including yourself.
A war-mode toggle;
Target nearest player;
Target nearest monster;
Target self;
Clear target;

What I need in the combat system;

A proc that will handle something to the extent of while you are in 'warmode', if you aren't 'attacking', you do have an 'enemy', and if you are within attacking 'range', attack that enemy. I have other procs that handle what kind of damage will be dealt by the aggressor and what dissipation the defender will have, a skill checking system for gains and a death-check proc, but all of these are old and poorly coded even from what I can tell and I need to just revamp the whole system so it will nolonger be a sore point.

Right now I am at a place in my coding that I can tell I could easily lose steam and send this project into the abyss of unfinished work. Alot of other content hinges on the completion of working combat, including the archery and the magic, and I feel stranded at the moment.

Thankyou in advance for your help,

-R. Shannon

-- Since I am trying to learn at the moment, if you have only moderate skill at coding, I would ask that you do not reply. I need to learn the best possibly way, the most concise, why and how. I am more familiar with Lummox JR's coding style since most of the systems I have had problems with constructing have been patched and reworked by him. But I would love the advice or input of any skilled programmer. 10 skilled viewpoints may show me different ways of getting to the final answer and may also leave room to discuss and find the best solution.

-- It doesn't take a very large stretch of the imagination to gather that I am not an accomplished coder. My first language was DM, and I have only dabbled in it for a few years. Now that I am trying to undertake a large project the only way that this can be done is if I receive instruction on why and how so that I can add it to my bank of knowledge. The hope is that next time I won't hit a brick wall, but instead will see a solution.

(the question got off topic before and the answer that was given left out everything that I didn't know how to do)