Is hard to make balanced AI either they are godlike or pushovers… and once you figure out AI flaws you can make the godlike a pushover.
I play Morathi and soon I’m fighting all the highelves the lizardmen and some skelly bois that marched in because they’re tomb kings and they do what they want.
True. When we initially enter the Maw and find Jaina for the first time… the whole thing is really lacklustre… she chain casts Frostbolt aside from some mix mash of spells she uses initially. And she has to cast it several times on a weakling creature. It’s not immersive at all
I think there’s only one instance that currently works like this and that’s VoA and I’ve never heard anyone complain about being locked out of VoA before. I think it’d be fine in a new zone like whatever they are adding in 9.1 but if you try to lock people out of ICC or Ulduar or any of the popular mog/mount instances I feel like that’s going to just annoy people.
I’d probably treat it like I treat Halaa in Nagrand or VoA and just not bother doing it if it’s locked.
I was thinking more along the lines of future content - but then we always have Chromie or NPCs you can ask to send you back to a prior period.
You’d probably be busy doing the unlocked stuff.
Dynamic content is lame. Why would anyone want it? Its literally always a disappointment in every implementation.
You’re not wrong, but it’s because of how it is done. Perhaps it’s to not leave people out, so things take forever to change. Maybe they can have group and raid instanced dynamic content as well as for the World, with the World helping to unlock content and provide all forms of dynamic content, and allow replayability on a group scale or raid, for those who missed it.
This here. Players flip out with temporary events that change the world that revert in a week. Imagine what would happen if it happened regularly.
This sounds like it’s gonna lead to Skynet
You dont seem to realize this, but what you are asking for is not an easy thing.
Ah yes… Trial of the Crusader PvP boss. That sure was an interesting experiment. Also the 3rd boss of Magisters Terrace to a lesser extent.
Also Blackwing comes to mind, yelling out “Attack the one in a dress” to his minions… then a raid tier later not following his own advice
‘Intelligent’ NPCs could be used, or they can stick with what they have and treat them like any other RTS game when they’re all together. Difficulty can scale by encounter, as it is now.
So all it is, replace Warhammer armies with Warcraft armies, replace the Warhammer World with a Warcraft World. Replace Warhammer Generals and Heroes with Warcraft Generals and Heroes… Let them march against the Jailers forces.
Zones are a little small mind you.
when wanting dynamic content, dynamic evets etc for years and years and for some reason blizzard continues to refuse to do it.
AI is a lot tougher to program than people think. If there was some real AI in this game it could be completely changed into something really cool.
Maybe I should be using the words “computer controlled battles” instead.
Make it sort of a sandbox game, you mean?
Don’t think they’d do that, it would require a massive rewrite of the code.
I actually thought they were going to do this in cataclysm. I was wrong. So very wrong.
I do agree with you a lot more AI or computer controlled stuff would be really great for the game. We could see some really cool things and a more “alive” world.