CZ on Pet Pathing, and the life as a MP
Quote from CZ's recent post:
You have ALREADY made the Heal Pet AUTOwarp. The demon and other attack pets, NO. I guess the Heal Pets ability to warp to me 95% of the time is not a "hack" in the code as you so un-elegantly say it?We’ve had suggestions for both a chat command and nano program for warping the pet to the owner. This is currently not considered a viable solution to the pathing, as it would be a ‘hack’ in the code, or we would have to allocate so much time to it that it would affect the work on the pathing itself.
Do you REALLY, and i mean REALLY think CZ, that they will be able to code theyr way out of a Pet that acts like this?:
1. Misses a Open door, and runs into the wall right next to it ALL THE TIME? Looks utterly rediculous, and IS even more rediculous.
2. Goes into Attack Mode, but just stand there doing NOTHING, OUTDOOR and INDOOR, even with NO obstacles hindering him, ALL THE TIME? This can only be fixed by running up next to him and press BEHIND, BEHIND, BEHIND AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaarrgh...
3. Paths worse than my Grandma on Crouches on a Icy Street with a 20% slope? I mean... sheesh.. The attack pet gets a order to attack, calculates a STRAIGHT LINE to the mob, and runs straight into the wall, just keeps standing there, or, the few times it half-way know that it has to take a little turn to get there, runs into, as I said, the wall.. Just to the left.. Of.. that.. little.. HOLE CALLLLED AA DOOOOR !
4. Just dissapears.. Dont know where? Back to the Metaphysical World? Still it has to be cancelled to make a new one.
Just when I tought it couldn't be worse, you put millions of NPC pets into missions, and the attack pet goes bananas on them. Ok, sure demon, some NPC pet aggroed you 15 rooms back? Just stay there and finish it up the next 10 minutes. You wouldn't be able to follow me through the mission anyway.
This so called "PATHING CODE" is so baked into the millions of code in this game, that I have a really hard time believing that someone ever, ever, ever will be able to half-way fix it. Just give up. I can see on how the pets behave sometimes, that this is nothing that can be MENDED. It must be coded ALL OVER.
Do the pathing right in your next MMORPG (yeah sure), and give us a WARP, or "hack" the attack pet like you DID with the Heal Pet, and makes the lifes of so many GIMPED, FORGOTTEN, and ANGRY MP's MUCH better on a daily basis, and save a few bucks, by us not quitting.
Also, take a trip into the MP's section of this board. The morale has never been lower in any Profession Thread anytime, ever, since this game was released. Read the posts there. Some of us have a unreal patience, and still hang around. However there's fewer and fewer of us every day.
Next Topic Please !" Ok here it comes:
How am I going to be able to contribute with killing all the uber unique mobs that have appeared in the game recently?
Demon has BIG TROUBLE hitting the lowest Team Mission Bosses, and has NIL chance to hit ANY of the uber unique bosses that are so popular to kill these days. On these raids, im as always degraded to a: MOCHAM DISPENSER ! TM. Pull my arm, receive a Buff. Thats it.. I feel so worthless as a MP its a shame. Oh I forgot... Sometimes I put my heal pet on the Tank. That adds a tiny bit HP on top of the Doctors 10001 heals. Thats me. A dispenser. With my blue weapon skills, sure.. I hit the mobs 1 out of 10 shots. Fun.
I advice you to either: Fix the MP profession or remove it as a profession altogether, and put up real Mocham Dispensers all over Rubi-KA. They wont complain much.
Evocations you say? LOL..
This game does have some interesting things but for the most part it lacks in every area compared to the other "big" MMORPG's. Just my 2 cents. Shame cause pet classes are fun to play but fairly useless in the grand scheme (oh wait there is no grand scheme in AO..hehe).