I am talking strictly RPG's - you can't compare an FPS to a RPG. Of course
some don't consider Everquest a RPG either :) I am getting out of this
discussion now since it is not directly related to bards.

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> From: Roop Dirump[SMTP:roop@...]
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 9:55 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Bard Petition
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> From: "Roop Dirump" <roop@...>
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> Duel a human sometime. No one is ever fooled they aren't fighting the
> computer. Really, MOB tactics are very limited, move to target, get weak,
> move away. Cast from distance or use bow from distance. Fairly
> simplistic,
> especially when fighting many at once. Monsters will use spells to heal
> each other, give you that, but they really don't use the spells they have
> that intelligently... thus they are given unlimited mana. It almost seems
> MOBs cast what spells they are given at random, to me.
>
> Look at the AI in the current crop of FPS games these days. EQ may not be
> Unreal by any means, yet admit EQ's AI behaves about like Doom's did.
>
> Roop
>
>
> >From: "Jones, Brian" <brian.jones@...>
> >
> >I have to disagree with you on the AI. The AI is much better than any
> game
> >that I have played. Yes there are places where you can trap NPC's and
> kill
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