Returning script ignored. Bug?

Meglobob · #1 August 14th, 2008, 03:10 PM

Btw I am keen for Illwinter to look at it and deciede if it is a bug or not. But we cannot hold up the game for that.

The debug is:-

comp_castspell: No eval Returning due to gems

Quote:
Not enough vis for Returning

It could mean your golem + 10PD or so thought my single S mage was no threat to them and so your golem choose to not waste 2s gems casting returning. Such is the way of AI scripting. But no one knows, other than the developers.

Meglobob · #2 August 14th, 2008, 04:32 PM

Ok, I will cancel the teleport--->magic duel. No more rehosts after this!

Its not a instant kill you know, magic duel the golem has a 50/50 chance of surviving. I think its WAD. Your golem is not casting Return because its confident that he and the 10 PD you have in there are enough to defeat a lone mage. Thats just how dom3 works.

chrispedersen · #3 August 15th, 2008, 01:30 AM

I have had the same bug occur.

Pretender + 2 seraphs. All kitted out; all with between 4-20 astral gems. All scripted to cast returning.

No one did.

Xietor · #4 August 15th, 2008, 02:01 AM

I do not think it is a bug. Unless it is a new bug with 3.17. Before if you had a large titan or tartarian and gems and script it to cast returning, it will not do so if the ai thinks the attack is not threatening(and i think the ai measures this by hps etc).

So it DID used to be if you had a golem and 25 pd, it would not cast returning if a mage teleports in for a magic duel because the ai judges the mage no threat.

This is similar to scripting a mafe to cast fog warriors and there is 100 trolls in the army. a Wraithlord enters in artifact gear. kills your whole army. your mages never cast fog warriors. Why? it does not judge the single wraith lord a threat.

But you also do not want a foe to be able to make you waste your gems with a scout either, so that is the trade off.