2009-08-05, 12:36 PM
Dusk Wrote:I don't like the idea of buff mules. I know some people rely heavily on HS/HB/SE mules, but it gives people with multiple computers a huge advantage while playing the game. It doesn't take a lot of time to make a buff mule these days, and it's annoying to hear how HS isn't an advantage for Bishops because AMs can bring along their HS mules.
Actually, I'm just unhappy with how much of an advantage people with multiple computers have in general, be it in CPQ or xferring items or anywhere else. Not sure how this problem can be addressed, though.
CPQ muling is what really pisses me off - teams that will party on a mule character, begin a match, then kick the extra person (It's happened to me twice) to give themself an easy win. Buff mules technically aren't doing anything wrong, and the alternative would just be people paying someone to sit in a map and buff them (people used to ask me to do this at Pianus/Pap when I was 8x). Not really any way to do away with that, besides what has already been done - requiring the character to move occasionally. Maybe make it so if the character will automatically un-party under set conditions, or block it from partying a person if certain conditions are met (I haven't thought through what conditions those would be though).