Animal Companions/Familiars Attacking Bunnies

oldgrayrogue · Post by **oldgrayrogue** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:40 pm

Wouldn't setting your global command to "guard me" take care of that Asura? With that command I think your animal companion/familiar will only attack if you are attacked, and then if the attacker flees beyond a certain radius the companion runs back to your location. I may be wrong though.

AsuraKing · Post by **AsuraKing** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:48 pm

Well usually the enemies aren't that far apart and Dom isn't to smart in listening to my commands. Dom is usually set to guard me 24-7 cause i don't feel safe being the focus of attacks and all, but my bear doesn't really pay attention to me apparently...

Wynna · Post by **Wynna** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:05 am

Bats/Birds/Bunnies/Deer/Horses/Rats/Weasels are now cuddly again, if you can catch them. They'll still run away, but they're no longer hostile.

See? I do listen. Sometimes. Rarely. OK, I was already fixing it and decided to continue despite the complaining.

Post by **paazin** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:02 am

Burt wrote:Actually it's impossible for a wizard to attack non-hostile targets. You just can't target them with spells (barring AoEs I suppose). As such, I welcome hostile animals which I can murder with aplomb.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but I believe that's a 2da thing. And on the list of things to be fixed, so Burt can slaughter commoners by the thousands.

AcadiusLost · Post by **AcadiusLost** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:20 am

paazin wrote:Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but I believe that's a 2da thing. And on the list of things to be fixed, so Burt can slaughter commoners by the thousands.

You are correct; however this change needs to be made individually on a spell by spell basis in the 2da, and is less than intuitive. We've de-prioritized spell fixes in the near-term in favor of universal-benefit projects like a proper shared vault so we can link multiple live servers, and custom PnP skills for all PCs. Anyone who is eager to try to help sort out spell targeting specifically can talk to me and I'll help them get a start into it.