The AI is pretty simple, as AI's goes. Over the years i've done some upgrades to it, but it still has a long way to go before it is as smart as i'd like it. Like any AI, it can be "tricked" into making stupid decisions, that while they are programmatically correct, are technically bugs because they shouldn't normally reach that behavior. Or in lamens terms:
Understanding abusing AI is a pretty simple. All you need to do is ask yourself on any situation, "If the monster was as smart as a relatively stupid dog, would it still do this?"
Judas[Cult] wrote:When I was told that luring an animal into a gate was "abusing AI", the following debate comes to mind...
Would an animal who is attacking you jump into a moongate, or run around the stupid thing? It would run around it to get to you. Now there is code in-place to allow this to happen, so this particular abuse of AI can't happen again.
Judas[Cult] wrote:What about when you make monsters attack one another? Is that not the same?
Nope, not the same. While dogs can fight over meat, they usually do so after the threat is neutralized. IF you are still "around" and the only thing keeping the monsters fighting is you hiding around a stone 2 squares away, then that's due to a lapse in the target awareness. This should get fixed in another upgrade in a few weeks, just haven't had time to do it. If you're in combat with an npc, and they start fighting, you better be fighting at least one of them actively.
Judas[Cult] wrote:What about when you use bears for that matter so that drakes damage one another? Is that not the same?
A relatively stupid dog will end up doing stuff in fights that hurts itself or others. For example tackling an enemy off a steep hill and fighting on its way down. What's not the same is when you use that trick to make the monsters fight each other on purpose. Since one they eliminate the summoned animal, they would stop caring since it left no meat to fight over.
Judas[Cult] wrote:What about when you attack a monster and run away from the others, so that you can single them out? Is that not the same?
Nope, even pack animals can be lured away by cunning enough hunters. That being said i have debated some AI upgrades to the pack mentality of some monsters and even letting them "run and get help", but honestly i don't think the shard needs it as a whole and i'd only implement it on certain monsters.
I hope this cleared up the grey areas for you.
But as i said, if it's ever a grey area, usually its just safer to not do it. If you really need an answer, just ask if a moderately stupid dog would do it.
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and he kinda moves his body or moves my hand with his paw to the part where he wants me to rub lol.... 