Herding

[AEowynSP]

Ok so as if you can't tell I play Siege. I have had herding on several of my toons over the years and it is always good for a giggle.
Now what is the difrence between luring and herding on a production shard?
(just in case your not familiar with Siege rules luring is perfectly legal and a valid tactic)
I have some ideas with a RP theme but I don't want to put my account at risk.

 

[AEowynSP]

Basara care to chime in here? Can I have fun with Herding on a prodo shard without getting paged on?
A gallping horde thru Luna bank or a herd thru fel PVP...
Come on it's a skill for a reason right?

 

[Basara]

I tried answering right after you posted yesterday, but had my browser crash right as I was getting done.

Typically anything you can do on SP, you can get away with in Fel on a regular-ruleset shard. The other facets are a bit different, especially with the wide range of rules knowledge (or lack thereof) among the current set of GMs. For example, I'm pretty sure that herding a couple dozen unis & ki-rins all the way from Grimswood to some necromancer's doorstep in Luna might be considered griefing - would definitely be considered such if you parked the herd in the guy's house (or the Luna Inn), and left.... For the most part, the logistics of getting a a blue herd somewhere in a trammel ruleset facet is more trouble than it's worth, unless you can take a herd through a moongate (I don't know enough about the skill to know how much you can transport the critters around, other than on foot).

To quote Tony Randall's Gremlin character from Gremlins 2:
Grandpa Fred: [interviewing Brain Gremlin] Creature what is it that you want?
Brain Gremlin: Fred, what we want is, I think, what everyone wants, and what you and your viewers have: civilization....
[a Gremlin with a beanie cap acts goofy next to Brain]
Brain Gremlin: You take a look at this fellow here.
[Brain shoots the Gremlin in the head]
Brain Gremlin: Now, was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized.

 

[Fink]

unless you can take a herd through a moongate

Can't, no. Nor out of dungeons, onto boats when you "jump" to the plank, etc. Most server lines are okay though.

Can I have fun with Herding on a prodo shard without getting paged on?
A gallping horde thru Luna bank or a herd thru fel PVP...
Come on it's a skill for a reason right?

Felucca/PvP is fine.. I've herded successfully at champ spawns for both offensive (rats) & defensive (dragons) purposes. I haven't really used them for blocking in fieldfights, I'm usually too slow to keep up. But yes, perfectly legal.

As for Luna, depends what you herd. Animals are fine, but mares & kirin/unicorns in Malas (trammel ruleset) are illegal. Usually they're guard-whacked anyway.

Basically if you're only raising eyebrows and not raising hell, there's no reason you can't herd through the bank.

 

[Xanth de Orlig]

i used to enjoy herding 50 or so llamas i had gathered up throughout the lands, and bringing them to the fel yew moongate ... no danger really ... but amusing indeed ... a solid wall of llamas to cause a bit of chaos ... until they are mercilessly slaughtered that is ...


or bringing a herd of angry dragons to wreak havoc on a harry in destard ... always a nice twist on both the offensive and defensive sides ...