Create a new NPC named "Target Dummy" in each faction's capital

onlinegamer1

If actual Target Dummies are too hard to create, just do this:

1. Create a normal enemy NPC, whose name is "Target Dummy" in each faction's capital city.
2. Give him 10,000,000 health, and make him VR12 (for now) with proper armor/resistances.
3. Give him 10,000,000 health REGEN RATE (i.e. basically unkillable)
4. Program his AI to never move or talk or fight back.
5. Give him a full suit of armor which covers his face.
6. Create a special room in the Fighter's Guild. This room should have an "instance" door. Make it operate like a Group Dungeon (i.e. you/your group get your own "instance" of this room, with the dummy in it, so that no one else in in there with you.)

(And just incase he somehow dies)
1. Set his respawn timer to 5 seconds.
2. Set his XP and loot to 0.
3. Make him have nothing to pickpocket.



Ta da! No new "tech" needed for a target dummy. Player AddOns can be used to calculate DPS.

JaJaLuka

give him 10,000,000 HP regen per second

everything else here +1 support.

onlinegamer1

JaJaLuka wrote: »

give him 10,000,000 HP regen per second

everything else here +1 support.

Edited OP for this idea! Brilliant.

onlinegamer1

Was hoping to get a ZoS reply here...

Artemiisia

just because we make thread, that dont mean that ZoS will reply to erm, actually more like 1% of the threads that will be made, now back to the idea

I hope more it will come as a achievement price with player housing in the future, while you start building your house, so u can have it in your garden going berzek on in

reality, if it comes to the game its more likely going into the crown store

infraction2008b16_ESO

I think having public dummies is a waste of time due to lag and player interference, what we need is a training dummy introduced with some form of private instance like housing.

Gidorick

I want a dead horse target dummy. For all dead horses to be target dummies.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/160275/dead-horse-nope-target-dummy

onlinegamer1

infraction2008b16_ESO wrote: »

I think having public dummies is a waste of time due to lag and player interference, what we need is a training dummy introduced with some form of private instance like housing.

OP updated (point 6).

Mantic0r3

+1

RoughReligion

+1

Attorneyatlawl

But my 'mursion! /sarcasm Seriously though, this would be a rather half-baked implementation to say the least. There's no such thing as "reasonable armor/resistances" for a start, as different activities in the game sport monsters and enemy players with widely varying stats. Now, a similar room where you could set the numbers yourself including those, creature level, and select from a few basic pre-set movement patterns the dummy would travel along, would be fairly useful. However, I question the push for this sort of feature when we still as of yet have no proper in-game tools due to API limitations to track basics like buffs and debuffs even through addons, let alone accessible in-game options, proper combat logging, scrolling combat text for in-combat feedback, numbers on the health bars without having to keep a fleet of add-ons updated, and so on and so forth.

@ZOS would really need to do a thorough UI overhaul such as outlined in my signature thread link, for this to even be relevant to gameplay.

doggie

Just put one in the itemshop that you can spawn and stays up for 20 mins, with 30 million hp. Sell it for like 200 crowns, cheap, yet people who don't have crowns anymore will have to buy some.

onlinegamer1

doggie wrote: »

Just put one in the itemshop that you can spawn and stays up for 20 mins, with 30 million hp. Sell it for like 200 crowns, cheap, yet people who don't have crowns anymore will have to buy some.

That requires new tech.

What part of "my idea doesn't require new tech" was hard to grasp?

Alphashado

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

Was hoping to get a ZoS reply here...

We have been pestering them about target dummies since launch. http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140994/formal-request-for-target-dummies-1-6-is-a-perfect-example They have never replied.

The most we got was an offhanded comment from a developer in an ESO live episode saying yeah, maybe at some point...

onlinegamer1

Alphashado wrote: »

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

Was hoping to get a ZoS reply here...

We have been pestering them about target dummies since launch. http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140994/formal-request-for-target-dummies-1-6-is-a-perfect-example They have never replied.

The most we got was an offhanded comment from a developer in an ESO live episode saying yeah, maybe at some point...

This is why I made this idea the way I did. It doesn't require new tech. Just make an NPC in a room with certain attributes.

Gidorick

My dead horse idea doesn't even require the addition of an npc. just let us hit dead horses!