yes i do the same thing, i should have mentioned it. its always best to be
last in the group to make sure you never leave anyone behind, where you are
auto-following instead of being followed. good point.
Shada Silverleaf, Level 46 Bard, Mithaniel Marr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhenders@... [mailto:jhenders@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 11:27 AM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Educating the masses
>
>
> From: jhenders@...
>
> 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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