object:Kill() already existed, but had a number of problems.

These are fixed and the best news is it can now be used to kill players! So prepare for much bloodshed!

But on that point, note that Kill() does exactly that and no more -- it does not attack the object or cause it damage. It simply makes it dead.

When a player is killed, he will die properly, losing stats and exp and going back to his savebed. Optionally you can name the killer, like this:
player:Kill(killer)

killer can be a string or a GameObject. If a GameObject, its name will be extracted.

ATM killer is (I think only) used to write the cause of death on the gravestone. If you don't specify a killer, "bad luck" is the default.

When a monster is killed, he will drop a corpse and give exp according to the usual rules.

Unfortunately the 'usual rules' are a bit inflexible for this sort of thing so whether and to whom exp is given depends on any non-scripted combat, as does any bounty dropped.

If he has no aggro history (ie, no-one has hit him), he'll drop an empty corpse belonging to no-one and no-one will get any exp.

You can specify a killer for mobs but (currently) this does nothing.

Previously the two main arguments were reversed on Kill() for some reason. So it was killer:Kill(victim). I guess that makes some sense like that, but the problems are (a) this order is unlike every other core method (eg, victim:Remove() and victim:Destruct()) and (b) as killer is optional and victim mandatory, the old order makes no sense.

There also used to be a third required arg, an integer cryptically known as how. This was completely unused. It did nothing so is removed.

No, in this case I simply fixed the script for him:

Log:
Correct calls to obj:Kill().


Modified:
   trunk/maps-B5/planes/demon_plane/palace_damned/potd_armoured_demon.lua
   trunk/maps-B5/unofficial/cleopatra/PetMoving.lua
   trunk/maps-B5/unofficial/cleopatra/petshop_test/PetMoving.lua
Modified: trunk/maps-B5/planes/demon_plane/palace_damned/potd_armoured_demon.lua
===================================================================
--- trunk/maps-B5/planes/demon_plane/palace_damned/potd_armoured_demon.lua   2009-06-21 19:33:41 UTC (rev 1264)
+++ trunk/maps-B5/planes/demon_plane/palace_damned/potd_armoured_demon.lua   2009-06-24 23:58:07 UTC (rev 1265)
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     if killer_obj ~= nil then
         me:Say(me.name.." "..killer_obj.message, 1)
         -- Kill the mob
-        ac:Kill(me, 0)
+        me:Kill(ac)
     end
 end

So does this not work (it should)? Or has he used an old revision of the script for the remodelling for some reason? And why is he not posting?

I think that's hilarious, actually. I think we should randomise the code so that sometimes it kills the mob and sometimes the player