Miscellaneous: Faction hits for killing mobs should be broken until [April 1999] era

uygi · #1 10-15-2019, 01:21 AM

Unsure when this is added and I am bad at research, but at release we didn't actually know what mobs had what faction hits.

Madbad · #2 10-15-2019, 01:40 AM

Oh noo I remember this being added

uygi · #3 10-15-2019, 01:52 AM

Having trouble finding the patch that initially added the faction messages [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dolalin · #4 10-15-2019, 02:51 AM

The faction messages were either in at launch or very shortly after. Here's a post from March 30th 1999 talking about them.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....8/iCBXAZjEQtIJ

Dolalin · #5 10-15-2019, 02:55 AM

Here's another post from Phase 3 beta talking about faction messages in the chat box. So all signs point to this being in game from the start, you're just remembering wrong.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....4/Rb265GcGBUgJ

Dolalin · #6 10-15-2019, 05:38 AM

Looks like I'm wrong. It must have been broken for awhile and then fixed in early April, according to this post it was an undocumented change:

http://web.archive.org/web/199905080...sages/1208.htm

uygi · #7 10-15-2019, 01:49 AM

JUNE 27, 2001

Quote:

Faction Fixes and More:
Also added a message that will let you know when you can no longer gain or lose faction with a certain group. It will say:
Your faction standing with could not possibly get any worse.
or
Your faction standing with could not possibly get any better.

Dolalin · #8 10-15-2019, 07:03 AM

Not sure I'd want them to tbh. I don't think replicating that level of brokenness is worth it for one month.

Sunderfury · #9 10-15-2019, 07:09 AM

And here I thought you were a purist ...

DMN · #10 10-15-2019, 07:34 AM

Was the "fix/patch" about not getting faction hits?

Or not displaying faction hits for killing?

Should be easy to check forum post history about people killing in upper guk without becoming KOS,