This one isn't related to XP though.

On some quests earlier, my animal companion got stuck in certain mini-transition areas inside of other areas, and basically got lost. I thought that companions teleported to you after you're a certain distance away, but instead he sat at the door transition.

So maybe add a /o command where it teleports your animal companion or familiar to where you're at? That way they won't get stuck.

I'm not sure if this can be abused though.

_Nightfire_ This one isn't related to XP though.

On some quests earlier, my animal companion got stuck in certain mini-transition areas inside of other areas, and basically got lost. I thought that companions teleported to you after you're a certain distance away, but instead he sat at the door transition.

_Nightfire_ So maybe add a /o command where it teleports your animal companion or familiar to where you're at? That way they won't get stuck.

I'm not sure if this can be abused though.

This can be abused even more than unsummoning can. I'd be worried people would use it to get their companions out of trouble via teleport.

Maybe put in a "not usable while fighting" thing or something similar?

Yes if it was a dialog conversation widget thing it wouldnt operate in combat (it would say it's busy)

But yes it's a bio bug thats been around since day dot and hasnt been fixed (it's extremely annoying so I've never understood why they've ignored the bug reports for it)

Probably something to do with inside area transitions.

The other annoying thing about familiar/companions is the reverse problem.. when they follow you INSIDE a pub after you've told them to "SIT" or "STAY", that one is just a design flaw.

They should only "teleport through transitions" if they're in "follow master mode or guard me mode"

I think the convo thing could work, it'd prevent exploiting it.

After all, many areas like the mines have little tunnel transitions inside of the area which throw off animal companions, and you see lots of similar things in the majority of the quests. It's a slight annoyance. >.<

Jumping companions/famliars etc to the owner really needs to be implemented (Talus command is the obvious choice). It would be easily coded -- there is the obj_jump_location code that is on certain placeables that pretty much does this already.

If teleporting is only possible when not in combat should make it relatively abuse safe -- at least not more abusable than the fact you can already summon animal companions out of nowhere. Am I missing something?

Well if someone summons animal companion with me inside the town in some house or similar, I'll be on very awkward situation. Companions are not magical creatures that jump out of portal. They are like their name already says, companions. Living creatures. I don't even summon my companion inside town or places that it couldn't be in. That is only how I see it.

Occasionally I've summoned my creature a bit late if I knew that on the way to a certain destination he would get caught up.

Perhaps a way of having the companion automatically jump to the player after they become seperated by a certain distance? While taking into account whether or not the animal is in combat, or if it was told specifically to stand it's ground.

I think I'm just going to recommend using slay living on your companions until they learn to do what you want.

While the slay living route is indeed quite a viable option, and one that I do quite recommend, the command will also be added to Talus shortly. It will only function outside of combat, to prevent abuse/exploits. We may add other restrictions to it if there are other issues later on.

I thought I read about a bit of script or a setting on transitions that would allow henchmen and followers (including familiars) to go through area transitions with the PC...

Is there such a thing, or has all that pixel crack finally gotten to me?

This has been added as of v530.

"/o c recall_associates"