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Pets should poof after 2 mins of the master being FD
I did some light reading of a Jun 16th, 2004 post and I found something interesting in it.
" * Undead Pets ----------------------- Pets no longer go away after their master has feigned death for more than 2 minutes. " Currently pets dont poof at all. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=3678 Thoughts? | ||
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Definitely remember that being the case on live. Always came back to no pet on my Necromancer after a FD AFK.
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OK, I looked into this a bit, some findings...
I should ask, do necros have 'unlimited' FD time? Or will the FD wear off after a certain period of time? Just looking into FD in general, there a patch message that was not well archived on 1/20/00 implemented this change: It looks like the 2/17/00 patch added this: Quote:
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Mention from Abashi was mirrored from station boards here on 02/24/00: Quote:
-Up until 1/20/00 FD had zero affect on pets, on that date charmed pets insta break but summoned pets do not die (can remain indefinite). Can also stay FD indefinite -On 2/17/00 FD for necros only gets a 15 minute duration -Some undetermned time between 2/18/00 - 6/6/04 FD duration for necros (possibly?) removed and pets are on a 2 min Suicide Timer during FD. How is FD currently working for necros on P99, unlimited duration? Edit: Found in era FD guide on Casters Realm mentioning the 2 minute suicide for Necros / SKs: http://web.archive.org/web/200012180...eign_death.asp Quote:
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Last edited by Rygar; 03-05-2019 at 05:18 PM..
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Right now pets con indif to everything while FD on P99 (making exping impossible while afk), not sure if that's classic or not, but kind of negates the original argument for the proposed change, doesn't it?
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There was some discussion on pet faction on P99 here:
https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=1637 Apparently the AFK leveling was happening, I never found the dev comment with pets being changed to indifferent, but I suspect it was a matter of AFK leveling being a bad exploit and not enough CSR to police it. Having pet poof after 2 mins will still help prevent any kind of AFK exping while FD. I imagine even with an indifferent pet, you can do some kind of guard command to get agro still or macroquest /pet attack target.
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Last edited by Ankou; 03-06-2019 at 12:32 PM..
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I get that macroquest is illegal, was just saying indifferent pets + FD can still be exploited via macroquest, pet poofing would make it more difficult though.
Anywho, up to the dev team really. The purist in me hopes they do, kind of nice seeing all the checks and balances of the original game discovered, gives me greater appreciation for the care they took back in the day.
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Not sure I'd be posting that here if it is an exploit (I suppose a gray area). Regardless, not sure if 2 min poofing would prevent that? Maybe just make it more time sensitive. Wouldn't know as I've never been involved in that type of pull mechanic.
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The entire idea behind most of what you listed (including the message) was to allow it to COMPLETELY wipe any trace of agro - including added safeguards like destroying the pet. It worked so miserably and broke so many mobs home 'spawn points' they eventually just made it so you got a message when agro was completely reset with no additional features.
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