Mob changes.

[Seryie]

just wondering when we'll be told exactly what changes were made with the mobs, ie the isles and the mansion.. I know why it was done, just want the full details if applicable.

But I will say it has slowed ranking, and made it far more dangerous, having stacked butlers, and butlers walk in on your while your fighting is detrimental to the health of newbies who rank, especially in these popular areas... Not complaing just an opinion.

[xanthas]

thx for f'ing it up for everyone seryie...

[Niktoo]

Newbies rank in the mansion? hmm...

No wonder I can't find any more goodies to attack there...

[Hamp]

I believe they were just changed to roam more. Not totally sure but believe that is all that changed.

[Davairus]

If you think thats bad, you should try emerald forest sometime. I've seen five nymphs manage to stack up together at the Lost Grotto once. Its actually fun though I think. Some berserker I was grouped with dived into that pile of nymphs, 5 on 1, raged, and took everything on at once. He finally died with 1 nymph left. It'll be cool seeing paladins doing that to butlers (unlikely, but cool). So anyway, given the scripting, I felt it best to make things more fair levelling-wise (20-30 anyway).

"attract or attack" is a choice you'll need to make. This makes AFK levelling hard, if your group has to actually flee and co-ordinate a little. Oh and there's no such thing as slow ranking when its butlers involved, they have multiple vulns, and they don't even dirt or bash.

Ill isles isn't even worth discussing, you got sreyb and emerald as well, at that point.

[Seryie]

Given this is only a measure to slow the scripters. But affective i'll give you that... for a short time.

[Kalist19]

[Mendek]

1. Mobs in Emerald don't sneak
2. Mobs in Emerald don't flee
3. There are more of each mob in Emerald

[Davairus]

4. emerald is right next to Seringale making you pk bait

I did overlook it on purpose.

[Seryie]

5.and the mansion takes all of what...a few extra ticks to walk too.

6.Emerald is also closer to town... so if you do manage to avoid being lagged to death you can access the safety of town with great ease... if theres a justice on.

7.Meanwhile if you get attacked at the mansion and they miss a trip, they have a whole lot more chance of being caught before you get back to town.

[Seryie]

Can I have a reply dav?

[Davairus]

Walk to mansion = blow half your moves. They then recall. So you can blow the rest of your moves walking back, or another half recalling yourself. The net result is you're way behind on moves, and if your pk fucks up somehow, which occasionally happens when you go after a group, you're in deep water. Its no accident that some of best training and ranking areas (shire, gnome village, emerald) are close to town. The further away from town it is, the easier it is to actually rank there. Due to mv

[Seryie]

Anyone with half a brain would sleep on the stasis before making the final treck to the mansion.

but i understand and thanks

[Mendek]

Dav assumes we all have only half a brain.

[Brains]

Mmmm, brainssss....

[divsky]

Ever realize how popular ranking scripts are for those 2 areas, where the mobs are always in the same location every time? Especially the isles since it provides both free food and water, and both are very far away from town. Think having the mobs roam around might have something to do with that? I know some people love their precious scripts, yet always take up the rightoues torch of "Think of the newbies!" when anything happens that is detrimental to their heavily coded style of play. Yet they never realize that players who do less playing than watching zmud play for them hurt newbies far more than any small change to ranking areas would. There's a rather unfair gulf that they create between the newbie and the experienced scripter.

I really don't think this is hurting the newbies. I think it's hurting the script kiddies around here who will remain nameless.

[Seryie]

Pity those 'script kiddies' have already rescripting moving butlers.