On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, CMai wrote:

> I think that we should petition about our hit list. We should not be hated
> by every agressive npc that we meet. For example, i would be standing
> healing myself then suddenly these Orc's warriors from all the way from the
> distance would rush up and beat me to a pulp. or when they would not attack
> the nearest pc but would travel the extra distance just to attack u.

What's worse, when my friends and I were fighting in Highhold
Pass, the spellcasting orcs that other people would fighting
would turn around in the middle of their fights to cast spells
on me! As you probably know, spellcasting mobs are wimps in
melee and their main threat is their spells. So basically I
ended up taking all the bad spell effects and damage for a mob
that someone else was fighting and got the credit for. Over
and over. Eventually I just ended up turning off my songs
whenever someone else was fighting an orc medic or apprentice.

In Befallen, another group was pulling mobs into a room they
were camping, past my group. The monsters would invariably
stop chasing their fetcher and attack me. I apologized and
explained it to them several times, but I still got the
impression they thought we were stealing their pulls.

> Another rant is we would get a faction hit for doing nothing at all except
> being near the MOB's death. Don't you all think this is very annoying.

I'm pretty sure this is due to the mob targeting you at some
point. Instead of making it so you get faction if you
contribute to a mob's demise, they made it so you get faction
if you're on the mob's hate list. The mob adds you to its
hate list if it attacks you, which because of the above
problem is almost always for bards.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...