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, 01:49 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.

uygi · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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

Sunderfury · #8 10-15-2019, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Dolalin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

I'll edit the title for this, just not sure devs will incorporate.

I also interpreted this as quest faction was fine, just killing mobs that was broke.

If they do choose to implement, probably want to know if faction was truly being adjusted from kills or not.

Dolalin · #9 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 · #10 10-15-2019, 07:09 AM

And here I thought you were a purist ...