tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post5135372157096825420..comments2024-03-18T19:38:53.390-04:00Comments on Parallel Context: What was that about Old Dogs?Redbeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-44294779398463485342021-01-28T15:59:15.608-05:002021-01-28T15:59:15.608-05:00Yeah, I've discovered that selling actual gear...Yeah, I've discovered that selling actual gear is very much a hit or miss proposition. I've had better luck selling mats and potions than anything else.Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-5170790259878483142021-01-22T12:38:54.896-05:002021-01-22T12:38:54.896-05:00I tell myself my inability to make money must be m...I tell myself my inability to make money must be my server, yeah, it's my server. Makes me feel better. I tend to get discouraged if I put a leather piece up and it doesn't sell. And then sometimes the AH cut after a few tries makes me give up.<br /><br />In Shadowlands I pretty much sell things like sought after fish, or leather patches that may not go for much but are cheap to sell.<br />Tome of the Ancienthttp://tomeoftheancient.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-73644798059822305292021-01-22T07:20:01.316-05:002021-01-22T07:20:01.316-05:00I think part of the issue I have with that is that...I think part of the issue I have with that is that if you're in a Battleground (Alterac Valley) you can be standing on a hill that the enemy can't get to you from, but a Warrior's Victory Rush will let them scale the hill and attack you, ignoring that limitation. I look at mobs like spiders, whose whole thing is to scale walls (hello, Spider-man!) and say "you can't figure this out? Come on!"Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-5011929211318309672021-01-22T04:38:47.286-05:002021-01-22T04:38:47.286-05:00"Exploiting" mob pathing is a fascinatin..."Exploiting" mob pathing is a fascinating concept. Even twenty years ago, when I was almost comically opposed to any form of behavior I saw as cheating (which included a whole load of things I now consider to have been borderline crazy - I once disbanded from a group in EQ and logged out, leaving someone's stuff on the ground, just because I realized after he'd handed it to me that he was going to log in alt for me to pass it to.) I was absolutely fine with the kind of mob pathing "exploits" you describe. <br /><br />The reason is that I always saw the way mobs moved in game as an integral part of the virtual world. Different mobs have different pathing strategies and that's just part of how they see the world. I didn't think about how a different coder might have set different paths - I just saw it as some mobs behave differently to others. Learning those behaviors was as much part of learning to be in the world as learning which spells they used or whether they were social with other types of mob.<br /><br />There was a thing called "perching", which was considered an actual exploit by the GMs. That was when you could fuind a place where you could attack the mob abd it absolutely could not get to you. I never did that. If the mob could get to you, though, even if it had to run backwards and forwards a lot as in your example, well that was local knowledge your character had about the world in which they lived and one hundred per cent legitimate, not just in game terms but as a fully role-played aspect of the virtual world. Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.com