Pet Commands and Pet Pulling Not Correct

[Ikonoclastia]

The issue with Chardok AEO and pet pulling has been bugging me ever since it came up. So I did a little research and this is what I found:

1. Chase range was definitely an issue which is not classically represented here. I believe that chase range prevented pulling the way that its used to pull most of Chardok to zone for AOE. I haven't been able to find evidence of this unfortunately.

2. Pet pulling is not correctly implemented. Pet pulling would not have worked on live because pet /attack command is just a /say pet attack as are all the other commands for pets other than follow and pet go away possibly. I cant' recall if you had to run back to where you left your pet to issue the follow and go away command but I think initially you did.

There was a /zone wide /pet kill %t command but that was done away with to be inline with the /say range.

Velious Era Comments - will search up some more evidence when I have time

shakana -- posted 05-15-2001 01:18 PM Datay, I'm not sure what abbrevations you are talking about...in this thread in particular or elsewhere?
Psych_, you don't need to target your pet in order to command it to do stuff (attack, back off, etc). You do however have to be within a certain distance range of your pet, he can't hear you if you are too far away.

LiLOLMe -- posted 05-15-2001 12:56 PM "/pet target" will target your pet. Hitting the F1 key twice will also. You don't have to have your pet targeted to issue commands. They just need to be "within range". Seems about 'voice' distance.

(Comment: the /pet commands are actually recognized on the server as /say commands that don't get broadcast. So a /say command then a /pet command acts like two /say commands and one gets filtered out.)

https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/i...1.27806/page-2

I think the most important line though is this one:

The range at which a pet will respond to your commands has been doubled.

http://www.reocities.com/TimesSquare...est_manual.doc <= Original Everquest Manual released in 1999.

This proves rather than the current zone wide pet commands, that there was a limited pet command range.