A suggestion regarding Animal Empathy

Wrexsoul · January 20, 2011, 09:13:56 PM

Since it's pretty annoying to have animals you have used Animal Empathy on suddenly go hostile without warning, could perhaps a combat log message akin to the underwater air supply message be added? That periodically displays the remaining duration of the domination. Doesn't even have to be repetitive - just a simple "Dominating Animal - 10 rounds remaining" would help a ton.

Relinquish · January 20, 2011, 09:48:03 PM

Well, I know it's 1 turn/character level. Aka 1 minute. Should help in the meantime.

Pup · January 20, 2011, 11:48:37 PM

When I played an AE-heavy char, I would uncharm and recharm often in order to constantly restart the timer, so to speak.

Though this isn't a bad idea.

VanillaPudding · January 21, 2011, 02:16:50 AM

Make it hour / level with a slight XP loss if they die, maybe 5xp / level. Might make those Druids actually get angry when people just kill their FE'd pet ;P

Mort · January 21, 2011, 02:34:18 AM

Impossible to code without lag-inducement!

Mort · January 21, 2011, 02:36:21 AM

Well, that's not entirely correct. Nothing is impossible, but I'd have to bother strife to play with NWNX and enable some stuff. So, ETA is unknown.

Porkolt · January 21, 2011, 08:51:26 AM

Dying because your cave bear's AE drops when you're not expecting it -is- pretty damn disheartening!

SilentSouth · January 23, 2011, 03:41:07 PM

Quote from: Porkolt;219538Dying because your cave bear's AE drops when you're not expecting it -is- pretty damn disheartening!

I agree, and people also discourage you from bringing dominated animals along to help fight, as they know OOCly it can just go hostile without warning.

I have noticed that sometimes even a dominated animal, if it has previously been attacked by a PC before domination it will still continue to attack that PC even when dominated. I think this needs to be fixed also as it can become very annoying at times, and again discourages using AE to aid in combat.

Egon the Monkey · January 23, 2011, 06:14:15 PM

Actuallty SilentSouth, it's more a bad idea to bring AEd beasts on a quest because unlike summons they are not buffed up Level 1 NPCs. Their level tends to be high, and drive the spawn amounts through the roof.

As I once said to Thomas after he brought Wolf on Orcs and we ended up nearly re-enacting "300":

QuoteOrc Guerilla: Sir, they've got 8 heavily armed men and A SINGLE WOLF!
Chieftain: A Wolf, by Ilneval? SCRAMBLE EVERYTHING! PANIC! DEPLOY THE CHOSEN OF GAATHMAR! KILL THAT 25 HP BASTARD FAST!