Oh I see. Yes we do have different Ideas about warping. What you call "short range" warping or teleporting, I call it catch up logic. Meaning, your Pet gets stuck in a wall or door or something and to resolve it the Pet part of the coding analyses all the different scenarios of what to do in this situation. Previously it appeared this logic was not in place and you either had to kill and recreate your pet, or go find it and help it through its problem. FC has done a better job with this problem, but what actually happened is not "warping" or "teleport" its just your pet or bot processing lines of code real fast to figure out where you are in the mission.Originally posted by Zane0
When I say warp, I mean teleport to your exact location. This is of course, usually short range.. though I believe my pet has also warped after a while from a different zone.
Yup, pets warp after a decent amount of time if you use /pet behind, or even /pet follow. It just takes too long.. Heck, it's already half fixed. With meta-physicists, I believe that the heal pet sticks very well to a target, warping very frequently.
I've been in plenty of team missions where I've seen a stuck bot, all the sudden move very fast and meet up with its master. So the pet pathing problem is still existant but in a least 10% of the scenarios that it was stuck before, it now quickly finds its master.
What pet warping means to me is physically taking a Pet from one spot and moving it to another spot. In words that sounds easy but if you have to code it its really not.
Here, let me try to explain it this way:
Lets say you are writing a novel. About two guys & two girls. The story is unimportant. You complete this mega 700 page novel, then after its all done, you decide to change one of the guys to a girl. So you have to go through the entire BOOK and change all the references to the one guy and now reference him as a girl, but you also have to be careful not to accidentally reference the remaining guy as a girl. That is a monumental undertaking.
So changing the way Pets path to include warping will be like rewriting that entire portion of code.
As an AO fan, I'd love to see Pet Warping.
As a programmer, I can't help but defend the FC
programmers on this issue.
- Tifanyx