invisible horses

[dablade]

Don't you hate it when you're going on your horse at full speed, and get stuck on an invisible horse (specialy if 30 dark knights are chasing you)?

Of course it's a horse from one of them you killed earlyer, one of those that starts to fade away and becomes an invisible ghost before desapearing from the battle map.

Maybe they should stay, or go at once don't you think?

 

[Raz]

I think they shouldnt go away at all A lil odd that they suddenly dissapear

 

[Yair Hunter]

if they become un-usable anyway and than disappear than maybe they should become un-tangible, so things can go through...

why does it happen?

 

[Sir Robin]

I wish the horses would just stay - I doubt I'm the only one that has been unhorsed and wished the enemies' horses would stay there for you to ride for a bit longer than they do. Instead, I run for the horse, only to have it fade away just before I reach it. Ugh.

 

[compfreak]

Wow, a conversation of newbies with no one to explain it. Armagan says that horses take up a lot of memory, so they can't stay. And IIRC, he wrote this.

I could make the horses keep running off the battlefield instead of standing and dissapearing, but I'm too lazy

It was something very close to that.

 

[Sir Robin]

Wow, a conversation of newbies with no one to explain it.

Wow, a pompous forum regular who can't get over himself. Not everyone is going to know that someone, somewhere on the forum, once explained why horses disappear.

 

[Sir Saladin]

Yeah, I thought that was a little rude too. I don't know why the Ingolif's new guy thread isn't at the top of the page. It is well done and answers almost every newby question. Did Ingolifs anger the mighty Pavlov?

 

[Ingolifs]

we had an argument over the best way to eat kittens.

 

[compfreak]

Wow, a conversation of newbies with no one to explain it.

Wow, a pompous forum regular who can't get over himself. Not everyone is going to know that someone, somewhere on the forum, once explained why horses disappear.

Well, actually you do, since this is an obvious problem... But that wasn't what I was trying to say. I meant it as a joke, because I saw all low post counts. I know that even some active members with less posts than me have been around quite a bit longer. Sorry anyways.

 

[Sir Robin]

Sorry, compfreak; I mistook your intent. I hope there are no hard feelings.

Thank you for your explanation to the inital question as well.

 

[MMad]

I could make the horses keep running off the battlefield instead of standing and dissapearing, but I'm too lazy

That would certainly be a big improvement. Running into immovable, almost invisible horses tend to ruin the immersion rather forcefully..

 

[dablade]

I hope Armagan will look into this someday, because it's really anoying.
Making them run out of the map would be a very nice and more realistic way to deal with this problem IMO.

 

[BobG]

Sometimes horses do stick around actually.. I think it's under certain conditions, like if you kill the rider while on foot, or something like that.

Anyway, I agree -- if horses are going to disappear, it'd be better for them to disappear kind of quickly rather than the gradual dissolve they have now. Even better of course would be if they ran off the field. (And yes, I know warhorses were trained not to run away, but we can suspend a little belief, can't we?)

My only other wish would be for horses to get slowed or bumped off-course more often, rather than stopping and rearing every time. I have a tendency to be riding the fastest horse in my band, and too often I find myself riding up behind one of my soldiers, only to have my horse suddenly stop and rear because I came too close to them. Same for riding up on enemy horses -- when trying to catch someone to lop off their head, it's kind of embarassing for my horse to suddenly hit the brakes. Sometimes it obvious is appropriate for the horse to do a panic stop, like when coming up on a boulder or when hitting another horse from the front or side, but front-to-rear collisions I think should just slow you down or bump you off course.

 

[Fluffy The Hamster]

I have an idea. How about you make them disappear while they're not on your screen?

Say. you kill someone and it kills them but not their horse. If you look away. It can disappear quickly.

A special case for your horse, though. And problems if you order your people to dismount, then look away. :/.