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[Snorlitax]

My homun AI is always set to no kill steal. But I realise with this if there are a ton of people around, my homun basically does nothing but move around and not hitting anything. (Moves to a mob that is free, but in the time it takes to move the mob may have hit someone else or been hit by another homun first) I notice most homuns in orc 2 are set to kill steal though. However I thought kill stealing was against the rules?

 

 

Most AIs are set to no KS I think, but their AoEs make it kind of difficult to follow, especially when the area (*cough*OD*cough*) is filled to max capacity. xD

 

I'm new to the world of leveling at OD2 and basically, in the week or two I've been there, I've had the same talk with several people: 

"Could you please set your homun to cast his AoE at your feet? Because it's casting it on me, and it's killing my monsters".
"What?" / "I don't understand" / "I don't know about that"
"You go to the AI, first tab... *explains*"

My homun doesn't even have its AoE yet, and I wasn't even sure of how to set the homun to cast AoE at their feet... but with whatever little knowledge I have, I have to go around educating people on how to set their homunculus. Either they are lying to me in my face, or they really have no clue about this!

 

Now, I know many people don't read the forums, but somehow they all seem to know about AzzyAi and use it. And I also know that there's a Sera Poison Mist question in the FAQ at drazzy.com. But I guess people don't read that and even if they did they don't understand / don't get why this is so important. It's not only a matter of what's effective and what's not, it's a question of being polite. If a monster is attacking me, and your homun casts AoE on me and kills it, isn't that KS?

So maybe this is another rant post, but maybe we should do a guide on AI settings and polite behaviour while leveling your homunculus... or better, add it to the existing guides on homunculus. We need a comprehensive Homun Guide pinned right at the bottom of the page! I know someone started one, maybe we should work on that one and then pin it. 
 

Edited by Snorlitax, 10 November 2014 - 06:01 AM.

[Darksorrow1234]

Azzy should put dieter's lava slide mode "Idle" as default instead of "Attack"   (like sera's poison mist)

[Aizenath]

People should just stop being jerks when leveling, it's not a race and it's not life and death.

I leveled up my dieter to 150 without ksing or fighting for a spot and actually helping people that needed zenorc kils.

It's just basic manners and social skills, if they lack those, record and report for ksing.

[Snorlitax]

Azzy should put dieter's lava slide mode "Idle" as default instead of "Attack"   (like sera's poison mist)

+1 to that! 

 

People should just stop being jerks when leveling, it's not a race and it's not life and death.

I leveled up my dieter to 150 without ksing or fighting for a spot and actually helping people that needed zenorc kils.

It's just basic manners and social skills, if they lack those, record and report for ksing.

 

I agree with you, however, I feel like it's too much to report them for something that maybe they didn't really mean (there have been cases in which, after I tell them, they do go and set their ai properly). Plus, this happens basically every time I get a new spot. I would be sending like 3 tickets a day 

 

I also think the range some people use is just rude. There are homuns who kill stuff not just near the next chemist, but from the one past that one. I mean... it's common sense. Mine has a range of 10, otherwise I'm afraid she'll get lost and won't find me and I'll die (as it happened to me once).

[HappierKate]

I wouldn't mind that at all.  I played RO back in 2003 or 2004, something like that, tried to come back two years ago and got pulled away by life, and came back now and it's an entirely new game from what it was ten years ago.  I have basically no idea what I'm doing and while I love playing as an alchemist with an amistr so far, I keep being anxious that I'm breaking some rule of etiquette.  The community's so established and everyone else seems to know what they're doing and I'm kind of just trying my very best not to step on toes.  So...if HappyMaze really ticks you off, that's me and I apologize, please tell me what I'm doing wrong.  Some kind of etiquette guide like that would be really useful.

See look, I'm already learning to put my range to 10 instead of 14!  I promise I'm trying.

[Snorlitax]

See look, I'm already learning to put my range to 10 instead of 14!  I promise I'm trying.

 

Don't take my word for that. I'm no homunculus expert, lol. I don't know how much my range should be, I come back and forth between 10 and 15. I like 10 better but it just bugs me when other people's homuns walk and kill stuff right next to me when my homun stops several cells from them. Maybe I should stick to being polite instead of saying "ok if you're rude I'll be rude too" as that attitude just makes the game worse, but sometimes I feel I'm disadvantaged because of my low range. Sigh. You really need lots of patience when leveling in OD. We need more polite people like you, HappierKate!

[hesho]

even if there was a guide, ppl wouldn't read it.  I pretty much assume that 80% of the ppl in this game are jerks...

 

I have been in the same spot in od2 for 2 days now.. and yet.. this gen decides to sit his gen 1 cell next ot me with his dieter as well...     Seriously??

[Junipero]

"Could you please set your homun to cast his AoE at your feet? Because it's casting it on me, and it's killing my monsters".
"What?" / "I don't understand" / "I don't know about that"
"You go to the AI, first tab... *explains*"
 

 

At least you get an actual reply.  When I try to ask them politely about it, most of the time I get a "lol" or "rofl" or "lolol"