UO Second Age

Ok so I've noticed lately when I provoke monsters on one another, leave them to bard others, then come back and they have taken no damage from each other. Is this a bug?

Omnicron wrote:Ok so I've noticed lately when I provoke monsters on one another, leave them to bard others, then come back and they have taken no damage from each other. Is this a bug?

If 2 creatures are fighting and have damaged each other, when you leave and come back a while later, they are fully healed up. No, it's not supposed to be this way, but it's probably coded that way on purpose.

This was fixed along time ago... probably was broken during the recent AI changes.

lol

On this shard, when you leave the range of two provoked creatures, they stop fighting.

Perception wrote:lol

On this shard, when you leave the range of two provoked creatures, they stop fighting.

If that's true then I believe this feature is broken.

There are meny instance where things like this can occur. I can only imagine it is part of the RUNUO code to optomize memory usage or whatever. When people are not around, monsters do not move or anything as they did on OSI.

Consider that you live on an island with no access other than the recall spell. If no players are logged out on the island in your home, nobody else lives there, boats cannot get near it, and a mongbat spawns on your recall spot.

You have 0 chance of ever getting home. It will not move, the server will not bother with the actions of things where players cannot witness. It's like the old "If a tree falls in the woods" saying.

MatronDeWinter wrote:There are meny instance where things like this can occur. I can only imagine it is part of the RUNUO code to optomize memory usage or whatever. When people are not around, monsters do not move or anything as they did on OSI.

Actually, the original OSI code functioned the same way based on Batlin's findings.

ye i thought it was based on sub-servers though. if there was noone on my sub-server where my tower was owned, and there was a mob standing on my recall spot, i had to run home.

The way it worked from my understanding was that a mobile wouldn't move unless a player was with in a certain amount of distance from it.

There is probably a thread about this over at JoinUO.com in the demo section of the forum.

Just realised I was completely wrong, not sure what I was thinking, my last post meant the opposite.

The radius to players seems off then, or, I suppose it could just be that OSI had 500x the people that play here, so it was more likely that someone was in the area.

MatronDeWinter wrote:It's like the old "If a tree falls in the woods" saying.

If Lazaraith gets scammed out of a frying pan, and Downs isn't there to witness it, does he still get scammed?

If a LEETPVPER wins a duel on the Test Center, does he still PWN?

If mYm quits when you steal their keep but forget to quit playing, are they still -F-?