I have seen this exact behavior in other zones as well, namely Misty Thicket, Blackburrow and Upper Guk. Merely running past an ongoing melee that I am not involved in seems to then later adjust my faction when the melee concludes. As you stated, so far I have not disliked the behavior because the faction adjustments are in my favor, but it definitely seems to be a bug.

Back from lurker mode because a silent bard is as useless as lipstick on a troll.

Keledal
Bard of Erollisi Marr

>>> <kim@...> 09/24 1:46 PM >>>

From: <kim@...>

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 jhenders@... wrote:
>
> This doesn't explain situations I've seen where another group is
> fighting a mob (not one of the ones they are ignoring) and it stops part
> way through the fight to run over and take a whack at the bard in
> another group. I've seen this in both Unrest and Cazic.

There's still something buggy going on as well. I'm still
taking faction hits in Solusek for mobs that other people pull
past my group (which isn't necessarily a bad thing since I
want to increase my faction with the fire giants and Solusek
mining company).

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John H. Kim
kim@...