Miscellaneous: No /target-ing Pets

[loramin]

Very minor, but I found this patch note (from post-classic ... but right after classic, so the fixes described should presumably be broken here ... unless Verant just broke them in the month in-between):

February 13, 2002 3:00 am

General **
- Improved sound for many users. Should eliminate a lot of the "choppy" sound issues - Fixed one of the link-death-while-zoning bugs - Characters who disconnect while zoning shouldn't be 'stuck' for an inordinate amount of time - Renamed all will-o-wisps and will o' wisps to Fred. - Reconsidered and changed Fred to willowisp. - Pets no longer pace. Pets will now, when close to you, STOP. - Many higher level NPCs now have a random delay before they initially spawn. This means that they will appear at a more random time interval after servers or zones are brought up. This is designed to provide a fairer distribution of these NPCs across all time zones - If you right click to auto-inventory an item that you are looting and it will not fit into your inventory, the item will simply appear on your cursor as if you had left clicked on it

Gameplay Related **
- NPC and PC corpses can now be /considered to find out how long until they decay, and PC corpses additionally tell you how long you have to resurrect them - The timer for corpses is now seven days for any corpse over level five, whether the player is on-line or off-line or any combination of the two - Characters below level eight will no longer see light blue cons - Spires will no longer try to teleport you to Luclin if you do not own the expansion, and therefore will no longer move you to the 'safe point' in the zone when it can't take you to the Nexus - Pets can now be targeted by typing their full name after the /target command (or at least enough of it to distinguish it from the owner) - Knockback now works correctly when on a horse - Summoning a horse in Plane of Sky will no longer allow you to levitate - Gating when in the same zone that you are bound no longer causes problems - Horses will no longer disappear when a character is moved to the 'safe point'

I'm not sure if the not-stopping thing was just that visual bug where pets seem to keep moving, or if it impacted gameplay, but the not being able to /target them thing seems unambiguous.

[Rygar]

Pet pacing was a thing. You would hear the walking sounds always on raids or med breaks. Was very annoying, this must be implemented.

As far as /target not working, may need more research. Possible you could do it with the full name... Meaning /target Lekn would not work, but /target Lekn00 may. The numbers after pets indicate the number of spawns in zone with same name.

[Potus]

Gameplay Related **
- NPC and PC corpses can now be /considered to find out how long until they decay, and PC corpses additionally tell you how long you have to resurrect them - The timer for corpses is now seven days for any corpse over level five, whether the player is on-line or off-line or any combination of the two

LOLOL

[CrazyPro]

Originally Posted by Potus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

LOLOL

Dew it Nilbog. DEW IT! Get rid of our ability to see corpse and rez timers, and nerf the corpse decay timer back to 3 days or whatever it's supposed to be.