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Thread: invalid target
a) civilians can only heal other civilians
b) combatants can only heal same-faction combatant or civilians
c) special forces can heal same-faction special forces, same-faction combatants and civilians
Players "on leave" count as civilians.
So you want to make sure that all players in your hunting group are either civilians, "on leave", or have the same faction as you should you be a combatant, otherwise you will not be able to heal some group members.
Message Edited by SparkyNine on 06-12-2005 01:34 PM
Message Edited by SparkyNine on 06-12-2005 02:02 PM
We were all same faction. I think I was on leave though, ahem, need to be same standing then?
Tbh, I thought it gave a warning saying your target is combatant do you wish to proceed with the heal. And then you go combatant too? Maybe that was pre-cu, or I could just have dreamt it,
The idea of a healer being able to heal anyone without thier being at risk is known as a "blue healing". The issue is that if the healer is on leave while the patient is combatant or SP then the healer is no longer at risk. This results in numerous exploits.
For example, you could have a doc in a pvp group and they could just run around healing folks and there would be nothing the apposing pvp group could do about it. Another example would be to have 7 healers focused on one combatant would could then take down a base by himself.
A better solution, one that I have already asked for, is to allow a healer to become the same faction level as the patient. There have been times in the CU where a healer could attempt to heal someone and then have a dialog box come up asking of the healer would like to become combatant so that they could heal that patient.
Even this method is not perfect as it would not help folks who are of different factions in the same group.
It does, however, prevent Blue Healing.
Marrow1 wrote:
A better solution, one that I have already asked for, is to allow a healer to become the same faction level as the patient. There have been times in the CU where a healer could attempt to heal someone and then have a dialog box come up asking of the healer would like to become combatant so that they could heal that patient.
But it does NOTHING for neutrals. There are people in this game that do not take part in the
Marrow1 wrote:
The idea of a healer being able to heal anyone without their being at risk is known as a "blue healing". The issue is that if the healer is on leave while the patient is combatant or SP then the healer is no longer at risk. This results in numerous exploits.
For example, you could have a doc in a PvP group and they could just run around healing folks and there would be nothing the opposing PvP group could do about it. Another example would be to have 7 healers focused on one combatant would could then take down a base by himself.
A better solution, one that I have already asked for, is to allow a healer to become the same faction level as the patient. There have been times in the CU where a healer could attempt to heal someone and then have a dialog box come up asking of the healer would like to become combatant so that they could heal that patient.
Even this method is not perfect as it would not help folks who are of different factions in the same group.
It does, however, prevent Blue Healing.
Message Edited by FFNogoodnik on 08-26-2005 01:58 PM
Message Edited by FFNogoodnik on 08-26-2005 01:59 PM