I thnk homuculous should be banned. IF a player can just sit there with out any effort and let the A.I do all the work then what is the point? its no different than botting, a perfect example of this is in ant hellhole all the egg spots are camp out with humuculous, the actual low level characters don't get any chance at all.
Thats just not all, any one with those stuff can just camp out monsters that are passive with out no effort, you might as well just load multi bots with serveral pcs while your at it since you aren't even playing.
Hey, at that entrance you talk of (there are two), most of the time, it's bots. Homunculi are often spread out. That's what I saw last time. If you're a merchant, cart rev all the eggs at low power, that way, you only make one attack, and, the bots kill the eggs, and you still get the xp.
Have you played Alchemist and tried to lv up homunculus? The default AI normally tells them to charge into battle like mental patient with a whole frontal lobotomy. This causes kill stealing early on for the newbie alchemist. Often we download more decent AI's that tell it to stop at low hp (half or so). I mean, the default doesn't tell them to cast, but a custom allows them to. Technically, the homunculus's AI also is it's own form of brain.
Do you expect the player to simultaneously move the homunculus and attack with it whilst playing their character? It's not possible technically. With defult settings, you cannot tell your homunculus which square to occupy.
And, with the way you speak, I have a suggestion you'll love:
Ban any and all forms of grinding.
Yeah, let's make it to where even low level pc's who don't bot, cannot attack monsters lower or on par with them for long periods of time (camping) to gain xp!
I'm sorry, it's just, what you said doesn't make a lot of sense.
Along with that, each minute the homunculus is active, costs one hunger, so, after an hour, it may have run away (in other words, you have to feed it often, making afking difficult).
sill waiting on that Bot S.W.A.T. that gravity had initially planned to start.......also applications for it plxxx
I wonder if they'd pay members of it....
I mean, if they'd be willing to hire a 15 year old, I'd be doing it constantly this summer! (I need a summer job XD And one I'd be good at, or decent).