Reports on bugs, and questions on if something is a bug.
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Selveem
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by Selveem » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:28 am
I saw the code update stating that formations now work for aggressive mobs.
I joined Kyrria's group with Tamri. I chose to move to the middle of the formation.
Formation of your group:
Front Rank: Kyrria
Front Rank: Shagel
Front Rank: Tamri
However, it seems like the mobs still attack at random..
You follow Kyrria.
Mineshaft in the Howling Peak
N-Mineshaft in th
Broken tools and piles of stone line the western wall. The eastern wall is
pocked with marks of picks and shovels. A faint glimmer of water on the walls
makes tiny veins of precious metals glimmer in the light of lanterns hung on
rusty spikes in the beams supporting the tunnels. The mine continues to the
north.
A goblin miner is here.
The goblin overseer is here.
Kyrria is standing here.
The goblin overseer growls at you!
You sidestep the goblin overseer's piercing attack.
Tamri walks in from the north.
This land shall come to the God who knows the answer to War. -Ninety-Nine Nights
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Mask
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by Mask » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:16 am
Formations do not make it impossible for you to be attacked in the middle and back ranks (unless you are in the middle rank with a person either side and 2 people behind you - but that would require a bit more work!) - they just make it much more unlikely that you will be attacked.
However, formation code requires the mobs to be set up correctly for them to work. In this case, the goblin you were fighting was not - please post in this thread if you encounter mobs which consistently seem to ignore formations.
Thanks (I'll fix the goblins).
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Hrosskell
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by Hrosskell » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:34 pm
The guys in that tomb near Beshaba's Temple (mummies, skeletons, etc.) seemed to ignore formation the other night. We had Althasizor in mid and back rank, and he'd get trained (and subsequently moved to front rank) a lot.
Jamais arriere.
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Raona
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by Raona » Wed May 30, 2012 10:07 am
We found a low-level PC was preferentially targeted when it was the only PC in the middle rank of a formation working its way through forgottencrypt.are. Does anyone other than Mask know what magic sauce causes some creatures to ignore formation? Is it a problem endemic to undead? (We had trouble with the mummies, in particular, VNUM 110802.)
