Underwater mobs spawning in NT

[Chasing]

Finding wolves and skeletal raiders underwater off the coast of NT (Chaos)

[Delite]

See post http://community.istaria.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=25416

[awdz]

this is why no shipping exists - the dangers of the deep!

[Steelclaw]

They're not spawning under water. Thankfully.

So, the problem is that there's a few monsters (Skeleton Raiders being one) that are missing the AI code that makes them wander around the inside of their spawn region. You might notice that once they respawn, they just stand at their spawn point unless aggroed.

Once aggroed, the monster will chase its target indefinitely as the combat AI takes over position control -- until the target goes well out of range or logs out, at which point the combat AI deactivates and the monster will stop dead in its tracks. When someone comes along and attacks such a monster, the monster's combat AI will re-engage and it'll realize it's well outside of its home region.

At that point, the escape AI takes over position control, and makes the monster run away.

Normally, the wander AI should keep picking random places in the monster's home region for the monster to walk to, which will ultimately result in the monster wandering back into its home region after the combat AI or escape AI deactivates.

Now that we understand the problem, Amon has been hard at work finding the other monsters missing their wander AI, so hopefully this will all be fixed soon.

[Thicklesip]

Thank you for explaining, Steelclaw, and I'm glad the problem was finally figured out! Now that we know what's going on it's perfectly logical.

...not to imply I don't burst into baffled laughter when I send underwater skeletons home by setting them on fire. This game is amazing.

[Chasing]

Thank you for explaining, Steelclaw, and I'm glad the problem was finally figured out! Now that we know what's going on it's perfectly logical.

...not to imply I don't burst into baffled laughter when I send underwater skeletons home by setting them on fire. This game is amazing.

Breathing fire underwater?? *goes cross eyed*

[Gimbold]

They're not spawning under water. Thankfully.

So, the problem is that there's a few monsters (Skeleton Raiders being one) that are missing the AI code that makes them wander around the inside of their spawn region. You might notice that once they respawn, they just stand at their spawn point unless aggroed.

Once aggroed, the monster will chase its target indefinitely as the combat AI takes over position control -- until the target goes well out of range or logs out, at which point the combat AI deactivates and the monster will stop dead in its tracks. When someone comes along and attacks such a monster, the monster's combat AI will re-engage and it'll realize it's well outside of its home region.

At that point, the escape AI takes over position control, and makes the monster run away.

Normally, the wander AI should keep picking random places in the monster's home region for the monster to walk to, which will ultimately result in the monster wandering back into its home region after the combat AI or escape AI deactivates.

Now that we understand the problem, Amon has been hard at work finding the other monsters missing their wander AI, so hopefully this will all be fixed soon.

wonders if it has any thing to do with this

CHANGE:

• Increased the maximum wander time of the AI to allow for more flexibility between movement choices.

maybe they have too much movement flexibilty

[AmonGwareth]

wonders if it has any thing to do with this

CHANGE:

• Increased the maximum wander time of the AI to allow for more flexibility between movement choices.

maybe they have too much movement flexibilty

No, it doesn't.

[Fratricide]

is this the same reason that wisps no longer move about on their wispy way? I remember when you had to follow them around a bit before you started harvesting essence from them but now, they seem like they are tired of moving and truly want you to siphon their essence off so they can be less heavy or something.

[Shadowedraven]

I am guessing it is since the pale wisps that used to be there too have vanished.

[walkerglassmire]

is this the same reason that wisps no longer move about on their wispy way? I remember when you had to follow them around a bit before you started harvesting essence from them but now, they seem like they are tired of moving and truly want you to siphon their essence off so they can be less heavy or something.

Not really. The devs made the wisps stop moving some time back for no readily apparent reason.

[Shadowedraven]

If that's the case then what has happened to the Pale Wisps that used to be there?

[walkerglassmire]

If that's the case then what has happened to the Pale Wisps that used to be there?

If you're thinking New Tris, there are no Pales on New Tris. There are a couple Dims there still (I think) but no Pales. Pales are T2, so either Wisp Isle or the Dal Peninsula somewhere (not sure where anymore).

[Theramin]

Not really. The devs made the wisps stop moving some time back for no readily apparent reason.

Actually they made them stop because when the wisps moved, they did not always stop right away (or at all) when someone started harvesting from them.

[walkerglassmire]

Actually they made them stop because when the wisps moved, they did not always stop right away (or at all) when someone started harvesting from them.

Had been happening since before I had started playing, which has been a long time indeed. I stand by my comment, and release the thread hijack as moot.

Just be careful to not breath lightening underwater. Is zappy.