On Wed, Jun 23/99, "Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)" <
Michael.Garramone@...> wrote:
> From: "Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)" <Michael.Garramone@...>
>
> I have found the /follow command to be a lifesaver for travelling in groups
> with selo's. the only time you could not use it is in areas that are not
> wide-open or dangerous, like lavastorm, where you would not use it anyway.
> as far as long distance travels tho, auto-follow is awesome.
Follow definately makes life a lot easier than previously, but I'm still
finding, even in open areas, that due to the weird client prediction
bugs and people's wide variation in ping times it can still screw up a
lot. I've found it works best if I dont have people set follow to me,
but to someone who's about the slowest in the party. Then I follow that
person too, that puts me in the middle of the group instead of ahead,
making it more likely I will keep everyone under the effect of Selo's.
However this often also results in my client deciding the person I was
following turned right and ran in a circle a couple of times then
disappeared, when in fact they continued in a straight line.
A good trick I used to use before the follow patch that can still be
useful is when you are leading with Selo's and need to slow down to let
people catch up, instead of stopping, which usually causes most of your
party to also stop to see why you stopped, crouch while running, which
will slow you down considerably.
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