On a similar note this is what happened to me last night, bear in mind
that my bard is a follower of Erollisi Marr and I have extermely good
faction with all wood elves due to the fact that I am a wood elf and I
have slayed too many Crushbone orcs to count (from level 3-20).
I was on the Sister Isle helping a few friends get a bracer of erollisi.
When as usual a pirate spawneed and attacked one of the sisters. Seeing
this my group mate attacked the pirate and was doing perfectly fine
against the pirate. So I joined in since I was doing nothing wihle
waiting for the boat. Here was a follower of Erollisi and fellow wood elf
defending his brethren against an evil pirate. So I made the mistake of
singing Heal, anthem and chain targetting the pirate. While attacking the
pirate I hear some battle cries from the sisters and think that they are
going to join us in the battle. Boy was I wrong they slayed me and then
my cleric friend. Was it me or was something totally wrong with this
picture?
Treilanin Loreweaver
Karana
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jason Rochelle wrote:
> From: Jason Rochelle <Jasroc@...>
>
> Very good thought. I wish they would fix this, i really hate zoning in
> from NFreeport to WFreeport (a spot where many guard killers pull to, i
> am always apprehensive that i will get a bad faction hit just running by
> a battle (as has happenned with GOOD faction MANY times).
>
> Here is another thing to chew on: when i was 6th level, i was killing
> spiders on the plateau in NRO. After a bad fight, i ran to the guard
> near the plateau, and started my hymn to heal and sat. I got
>
> your wounds begin to heal
> your wounds begin to heal
> your wounds begin to heal
>
> and then i saw "Stop you filty scum" (or some such thing), and THE
> GUARD attacked and killed me quickly. I scrolled back up to see what i
> had done, and i had done NOTHING. I had ok faction with the guards, i
> did not have the guard targeted, i was not in combat, and i was singing
> ONLY the hymn.
>
> Just something that has botheered me for a while...
>
> > Message: 24
> > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:33:57 -0700
> > From: "Chris" <spc@...>
> > Subject: Re: Re: Re: BARD HATE
> >
> > I actually think part of "bard hate" comes from a coding error (theory only). If I
> > am playing heal and a mob runs through our group
> > getting pulled to another group, I will get all the Faction +/-'s for that mob
> > being killed. I think this was because in Beta the
> > bards songs affected everyone (grouped or not) within a certain radius. I think
> > this area effect code is still in the game but with
> > an additional check (i.e. in radius + in group) for PC's but for aggro mobs I
> > think they effectively get "hit" by our songs (thus we
> > get those faction hits for mobs we never touched). Thoughts?
>
> > Please send submissions for the eqbards newsletter to toren@... with the subject lol.
>