Bug with silence

[grantis]

[color=red:3g2jxeuf]cast 'silence' older
Ok.
A gang leader's mouth clams shut![/color:3g2jxeuf]

<209hp 128ma 109mv>

cast 'fireball' older
Ok.
A gang leader hates your guts!
You throw a fireball at a gang leader and have the satisfaction of seeing him en
veloped in flames.

<210hp 115ma 109mv>

order followers assist grantis
You massacre a gang leader to small fragments with your slash.
A gang leader crushes you extremely hard.
A gang leader misses you with his pound.
You massacre a gang leader to small fragments with your slash.
A gang leader misses a kick at your groin, you breathe lighter now.

<192hp 115ma 109mv>

Mayor Virdo tells a manes that it is the nicest person he has ever met.
A manes misses a gang leader with its claw.

<192hp 115ma 109mv>

A soiled janitor leaves east.

<192hp 116ma 109mv>

You massacre a gang leader to small fragments with your slash.
A manes claws a gang leader hard.
A manes misses a gang leader with its claw.
A gang leader crushes you very hard.
A gang leader massacres a manes to small fragments with his pound.
You massacre a gang leader to small fragments with your slash.
A gang leader makes a nice ballet step which plants a foot a mile above your hea
d.

<178hp 116ma 109mv>

cast 'fireball'
You massacre a gang leader to small fragments with your slash.
A manes claws a gang leader hard.
A manes misses a gang leader with its claw.
A gang leader misses you with his crush.
A gang leader misses a manes with his pound.
You massacre a gang leader to small fragments with your slash.
A gang leader misses a kick at your groin, you breathe lighter now.
[color=red:3g2jxeuf]A gang leader yells 'Thugs, to me, I am in need of aid.[/color:3g2jxeuf]
<179hp 117ma 109mv>

Ok.
You throw a fireball at a gang leader and have the satisfaction of seeing him en
veloped in flames.

Damn cheating gang leaders

[Vixn]

Seems he uses mysterious technique based on deaf-and-dumb language and pantomime.

[Krok]

Oh, he borrowed my mystical ki powers!

[Yasik]

His yelling is a proc message. Silence is useless.

[kjartan]

But really... slience [i:x8i5u4m4]ought[/i:x8i5u4m4] to work. Maybe I'll have a look at that tonight too.

[12345]

*blink* Oh yeah... realism.

While you're at it... there's a couple procs that still allow mobs to cast through silence, though it's been fixed in many areas.

Is there supposed to be a way to stop mobs from phasing? Because webs, arms of the abyss and the rest just don't seem to work.

I'm sure I'll think of something else... I kinda like having this realism thing on my side for once.

[kjartan]

I think many, but probably not all, of the phase checks are level based. That is, a level 41 or 42 mob can phase right through your pathetic level 40 bind. I'd have to double check that, though - it could just be random.

I think you can't phase through force fields.

[12345]

Hmm.. I used a bad word. I was referring to the proc that allows mobs to 'fly away' in battle. In sakura, there's a mob under the water that uses it to hide underwater and come back and attack, in Aaost, there's a bird that flies away then returns and attacks. In ET there's a gargoyle that does basically the same thing. You can still web or use arms to reduce their hitroll, but they'll fly and swim away with no really problem at all.

Just seems odd that if I'm holding them with arms that they'd be able to move out of my reach... same with webs.

I call it phasing, but it's not a 'phase door' type effect, it's some mob_proc.

[12345]

In Kj speak: kvp_hide(), possibly kvp_hostage() as well.

[Clink]

[quote="12345":2wl76pj1]... You can still web or use arms to reduce their hitroll, but they'll fly and swim away with no really problem at all.

Just seems odd that if I'm holding them with arms that they'd be able to move out of my reach... same with webs.

I call it phasing, but it's not a 'phase door' type effect, it's some mob_proc.[/quote:2wl76pj1]

It probably makes sense for them to resist webs and be too nimble for the arms to grab hold. Maybe I can convince one of the coders to look at that.

[12345]

Cool, while you're at it, you can adjust it so they're not close enough to hit me with their weapons too.

[kjartan]

Ok, the thug leader is silencable as of next crash or reboot. If there are other specific mobs that are violating reasonable silence behavior, tell me the specific mob on here and I'll probably try to fix it.

[grantis]

Many thanks, much appreciated

[heaven]

what about those mobs that are not silenced despite masterful casting? Would these be solved? It makes no sense that masterful casting = useless action.

[kjartan]

It depends on the mob. If you see a mob that is acting like it's not silenced even though you successfully cast a silence spell on it, post it here and I'll perhaps fix it. I have to fix them, or at least some of them, on a case-by-case basis and I don't want to search the entire zillion mobs so I'll just fix them as they're problems.

I don't know what masterful silence does; I'll check and if it doesn't do anything, I'll make it so that you never get a masterful casting of silence.