ZooperDooper wrote on Jan 24^th, 2017 at 7:09am:


They can't do this, and for what it's worth this is a valid position for them to take.  They promised that with the pre-order that the panther would be exclusive to that sale, and to their credit they have stood by that promise.

They might offer a different colored panther and call it different.  And they might claim that promises made by Turbine are not binding on SSG.  Dunno...  Time will tell.

Asheras wrote on Jan 24^th, 2017 at 11:43am:



You almost never see them summoned any more, sad waste of coding.

Canteen Boy wrote on Jan 27^th, 2017 at 11:52am:

You mean like the kobold companions already available in the DDO store?  Great idea!
http://ddowiki.com/page/Creature_companion

Digimonk wrote on Jan 27^th, 2017 at 12:29pm:

Zoumzoum named his Ericktreikos in honor of Disavowed. He made him do tricks on drunk raids. Good fun.

spathic wrote on Jan 27^th, 2017 at 1:09pm:

You're right, it would be fun to watch the panther stare confusedly for a moment at a crate, before ignoring it completely.

Revaulting wrote on Jan 27^th, 2017 at 2:08pm:

This is accurately sums up trying to get a hireling or pet to do anything useful beyond the first 5 minutes after it has been summoned. 

I'm admittedly armchair quarterbacking it, but I really don't understand why it's so hard for the Rockstars to get hireling AI working, especially after multiple attempts over the years.


I wrote scripts for some *third-party* software back in my EQ days that ran heal bots, crowd-controllers, and melee that worked as well as, if not better, than a good portion of the real players.  Used to successfully multi-box raids with a couple of guildies where we ran 3-6 toons each with the scripts handling all but the main toon for each player.

The logic loops for monitoring health, removing negative buffs, and maintaining beneficial buffs should be pretty straight forward.  Ditto for crowd control functions and attacking.  It's essentially a bunch of IF ELSE and FOR loops.

Grand wrote on Jan 26^th, 2017 at 12:53am:


Just like most of their older pieces of named gear, and therefore the quests that drop them. They are in such a rush to push out the latest crap that the code supporting the old stuff is useless bloat, doing nothing but slowing the system. The current stuff will no doubt soon follow, making what they are working on now yet another sad waste of code.

Maybe SSG will have an epiphany and stop obsoleting their own work, but I won't be pre-ordering anything in the hope that they do 

So no sales at all this week? standing stones keeps upping the ante i see.

They dont know how to put things on sale? Wat?

Revaulting wrote on Jan 28^th, 2017 at 5:04pm:

Revaulting wrote on Jan 28^th, 2017 at 5:04pm:


That makes sense for the first time they had a lapse in the regular weekly freebies and store sales, right after becoming SSG.

But since then they have run several sales and freebies.  This relapse into failure doesn't make sense.

Doggydaddy wrote on Jan 30^th, 2017 at 7:45pm:


Makes sense.