Alter level monster/kill count

[TheFortuneTeller]

I don't see any function in the code that lets one get or change the numbers for total level monsters or killed monsters, but I thought to first ask here if I merely looked over it before I add a new ACS function.

[Blue Shadow]

Get? [wiki=GetLevelInfo]Yes[/wiki]. Change? No.

[Gez]

To increase monster count, spawn a monster.

To decrease monster count, remove a monster.

To increase monster killed count, kill a monster.

[TheFortuneTeller]

To increase monster count, spawn a monster.

To decrease monster count, remove a monster.

To increase monster killed count, kill a monster.

Though smarmy, you are right that this does not solve the root problem: when a monster is removed by a "stop" directive in DECORATE, without it being killed, it does not decrease the total monster count. Is this unintentional behavior?

[Gez]

The question then is why do you remove monsters in this way rather than through Thing_Remove?

Have you tried unsetting the COUNTKILL flag before it stops?

[TheFortuneTeller]

I was not using Thing_Remove (which works as expected, by the way) because I was not writing an ACS script, I was working with DECORATE code that randomly replaces monsters with A_SpawnItemEx (the code is old). I've just remembered the RandomSpawner class, though, and I'm going to try that instead.

Nonetheless, I was not expecting a monster removed even in an unconventional way to render the maximum kill count unattainable. Maybe this ought to be remedied, but I guess Thing_Remove is already a workaround.