smarter Part 2, hoisted on my own petard

[Hungkung]

Sometimes in life, you just know you're right and you take the time to yell from the rooftops...or on a MMO forum, "WE ARE HERE WE ARE HERE"...and then you run into this little thing called a cold harsh dash of reality.

In this first post of this series I complained about dumb AI....


today I am rather fond of dumb AI, because when you wish upon a star..you might just get it. and when you wish players to truely be buggered, and forget your a player...it's daddy grab the grease can it's goin' be a long night.

Vanguard has at least 1 brillant piece of AI.
when you attack a camp, and end up pulling more than you intended and manage to run away safely the ones you aggroed remember you..no idea how long and thier aggro range turns from a dime into a dinner plate at a all-you-can-eat steakhouse.

I had mobs coming at me from across the camp (after I moved to a new attack position) bringing every friend they had in camp with them...thus adding all the buddies to the Hatelist and I shook my kitty tail out of there as fast as possible.

I finanly logged to clear the hate table, dunno if there is a way, or a better way or an in-game by class way to do it yet or not.

but it was brillant..and scarier than a woman you haven't seen in 20 years bringing in a 19 year old kid with her when you meet for drinks.

this was worse than the last time I made a wish and ended up hip deep in kittens.

[Ceyllynn]

lmfaoooooooooooooooooooo

as usual a well written funny post

murphy and sullivan those irish bastards got yah eh?

[Elidia Nacht]

To use the vernacular... I LOL'ed.

I'm often found yelling "where the hell did all these guys come from?" Oh and "OW!"

[sherrjo]

not so funny when you see the mobs steer well wide of them yet after 45 secs of "chunking" for want of a better word. Find out that you didn't actually swing wide enough of them.

Fighting 3 level 17 mobs when you are level 12 is good (if abeit short) fun; lagging for 45 secs then finding your character in a pool of blood is not.

[Sigurd]

I gotta admit, I love that mobs CAN 'chunk' - but ya, I think we should add a buff that when you chunk you are invuln and cannot do anything inc regenerate anything until you move or 2 mins pass and it drops.

I haven't had it happen since early very unoptimized beta on my old pc, but it sucks to die b4 finishing the load.

I am happy about not having the 'zone the mob' tactic.