The local fuana isn't designed to add to the environment, they are meant to be static and generally unused environment art. When you see a deer in ESO, it should elicit the same feeling as seeing a tree or a rock formation. It's background decoration.

Cop out? Yes indeed. Unrealistic? Totally. Problem? Not really, no.

Generally speaking the AI in ESO is remarkably dumb and unsophisticated. When you gaze into the eyes of the non player characters, you simply cannot fathom the magnitude of raw stupidity gazing back it you. Big area of effect made of fire between them and you that you literally just put there, despite options to go around? Yeah they'll just walk right into it, burning alive, with no apparent drive for self preservation.

Blade_07 wrote: »

I can tell the devs have never played Big Game Hunter or even went on a real life hunting trip. The ESO wild life is sorta of a buzz kill to realism. I know this aint really a bigy but never the less its lame as is. All of the wild life should have a much larger aggro range & they should run away faster as well. Also they should run much further away from you. Would be cool if squirrels ran for the nearest tree & went right up it to hide. Mouse and rats would run for cover. Make it so that you have to sneak up to them if you wanna kill them. Again I fully realize this is small stuff I'm talking about here but would be really cool to see that sorta attention to detail & again would really add to the realism of the game!

The reason it hasn't much attention to detail is because MMO developers don't care about the open world any more. Sure they pay lip service with words such as 'adventure' and 'exploration.' But really they all follow FFXIV's school of thought, which is that open world mobs are simply back drops and idle fillers, with select areas of consolidated mobs for quest purposes.

It also goes hand in hand with the concept that mobs are not meant be a consistent source of experience gain. This style of MMORPG gaming died in the early 2000s after the rise of Warcraft and similar titles. EQOA, FFXI, SWG and Vanguard would be the noteable exceptions.

And due to this change in design, open world mobs are not as focused on and thus we end up with how they are in ESO and similar games.


Then there's the separate and equally aggravating issue of leashing. I can't stand short leash mobs in MMOs. As far as I am concerned a mob should chase you indefinitely unless some other extenuating force hinders it, such as stamina, fear, death, change of zones, teleportation etcetc. It's so frustrating to be fighting a mob and then step over some imaginary and invisible line which automatically stops the mob from fighting, restores it's health instantly and sends it back to it's spawn point while being immune and moving at a swift pace. Contrast this to other games of old, where a mob would return back to it's spawn point at a normal pace and was vulnerable to attack.

I don't know why developers are so afraid of kiting tactics in MMOs these days. Please stop giving us ridiculous mechanics like fourteen foot distance Die Hard rolls and eight foot jump distances, suggesting the game is about being able to make use of space to your advantage - if you don't intend for us to kite mobs.

I'm tired of running circles in a five by five box.

Betahkiin wrote: »

The problem of increasing the area of effect is that if there are many players scattered in the area, they will start to bounce around the screen like pinball.

And? Is your defense that other players don't want to see other people playing? Any time I've ever pointed out something like that, it's often met with the a-typical rebuttal of 'don't play an MMO if you don't want to see other people!'

Additionally if being able to move mobs around more freely, extends the space in the game world that people traverse, then that means they'll be encountering each other more - as opposed to being isolated to select questing areas.

Also, how is it different from all the players pinballing around the inside of shared instances, making a mockery of the concept of an EPIC quest, when forty people and forty prophets are sharing the same objectives simultaneously?