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I saw this last night with cyaan as he was attacking around the area. And thought I would reproduce this.

Thanks to Erienne, who in turn called PlunderDucky.

Seemed to work when you cast flying arrows magic and click at the center of the stones.

I wonder if there are any other's like this , or like cyaan said last night... just a bug.

The NPC used to support spells like rain and arrow hail now say that to prevent client issues with them not saying anything.

i found one:

swimmy: that's different.

darkice: Like I said, the NPCs used to support stuff like the rain spell will say that when you try to talk to them.

Thank you for your responses, after I get more experience with Magic I'd like to go hunt for more of these.

Here is another one.

I give credit to Ronnymana for helping me stumble on this one.

It's right there when I tried to pick up that apple during the arrow spell.

PS: Jax* I hope there's no problem with me searching for these.

Some `fake' NPCs are created temporarily for local effects (such as the summon spell particle effect, arrow-hail particle effects and rain particle effects)

In order to not leave the client hanging while waiting from a response from the server, a simple '?' message is sent whenever the client sends a request to talk to one of these `fake' NPCs.


---Freeyorp

Freeyorp101 thank you for your reply.

So you mean it's anytime anyone casts that spell , that NPC is hidden in plain sight? so long as someone is casting that spell, I could click an area.. and it will be there? So, it's not just found in certain areas; but more apart of the spell itself?

These are an unfortunate side effect of the hackish method used to send local effects to the client: creating an basic temporary NPC, then sending an effect assigned to it...

Any spell that sends an effect to a location rather than an existing object (such as a player, or mob) will create one of these fake NPCs for this purpose

The client sends out a request to talk to an NPC whenever an NPC is clicked, and in order to stop the client from freezing while waiting for a response the server must send a basic message to the client when a request is received to talk to one of these `fake' NPCs.


---Freeyorp

I may be beating this to death but this is interesting,

What about a group of attack? If we had like 20 mages all castings an effect to an environment, wouldn't that mean you'd be creating 20 different NPC = ?.
spread out in the environment?

Would be nice if it said something cool...

"as you see a hurricane of arrows fly before you".. or something to that effect.
when you clicked that created NPC

but again, thanks for your reply.

Can't we set the NPC's job ID to 0 so the client will ignore them completely?

Kage wrote:Can't we set the NPC's job ID to 0 so the client will ignore them completely?

That defeats the purpose. If the client ignores the being, how can it assign a particle effect to it?

ManaServ supports assigning particles to arbitrary positions without needing beings to hold them.

jaxad0127 wrote:

Kage wrote:Can't we set the NPC's job ID to 0 so the client will ignore them completely?

That defeats the purpose. If the client ignores the being, how can it assign a particle effect to it?

ManaServ supports assigning particles to arbitrary positions without needing beings to hold them.

It would not be difficult to add this support to eA...

This product sometimes by "# kalmurk"

lien wrote:This product sometimes by "# kalmurk"

It is pointless to find and report everything that causes it. We already know what they are.

jaxad0127 wrote:

lien wrote:This product sometimes by "# kalmurk"

It is pointless to find and report everything that causes it. We already know what they are.

BTW... that's Jax's way of saying "Its not a bug! Its a feature!"