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From what was said earlier, brawl may be a default used when no other action can be done. It may not be listed.
It may be that "move closer" may be the default though.

It does. I had temporarily turned that off to try to improve the graphics on another game that didn't have anti-aliasing or it didn't work, and forgot to change it back later.

Unless it was changed (and i hope it was), pets on passive didn't heal or buff or do anything.

As brawl is a default, removing the queue for brawl alone does sound like a good idea since right now other powers aren't being checked for readiness while brawl is queued and trying to be executed. They would still close if no powers are charged but it would still be a massive improvement. A jerky stop/go closing movement might be a problem, but that would probably be easy to fix.

This is why i thought about making "stay" more absolute. The players could handle the problem themselves with all pets and everything else that uses the same AI wouldn't be affected. It wouldn't take as much coding either. Just more player effort.

Their was a game for the first playstation called "Carnage Heart" where you design and build robots, then use them on a battlefield against enemy robots. You didn't control them manually, instead you used a flowchart like system to design an AI for them to use. If a queue wasn't used, the AI would be ok if two different actions had differing ranges. But if both had the same range, only one would be used. The last action on the list would be done because the AI wouldn't wait on earlier actions to be done. In the case of MM pets, if healing or buffing is also ranged, favoritism would got to the last action. Either healing, buffing, or ranged attack. Not a problem with buffing as without favoritism, it would just be done when the other actions weren't (not in battle). But in a battle, the pets would either attack and never heal, or heal and never attack. Not having queue on melee attacks and having them first on the action list and then starting over if melee is done (enemy is in melee range), but still having queue on other actions may work. The only problem then would be melee pets, like thugs Bruiser. They wouldn't close to melee unless all ranged attacks were charging. Now i got flowcharts on the brain

I thought that as well. The pet AI seems to be the same for all the MM sets, so any solution would have to work on all MM sets. Your idea might work when the pets attack but may cause support pets to not use their healing and/or buffs. They'd change their mind too much. My idea would work if the player knows more about pet control but as you pointed out, it need's the "stay" command. It may not be as hands free as would be needed in an intense situation like battle, especially when teaming. Perhaps if pets set on guardian wouldn't go farther than a set distance from the MM so that ranged pets wouldn't run into melee unless the MM does too. Isn't guarding the MM the point of bodyguard mode?

Contrary to some anime series and movies, Ninja were actually assasin's. Their training was different but their purpose was the same. Their covert style was one of the things that made them different from the upfront Samurai. Batman used covert methods when facing superior numbers and/or a physically superior villain. The main difference is that he will not kill no matter what and has even been known to try and save a killer who may have endangered themselves. Thus the title "Dark Knight". Batman would be an example of a hero Stalker, not a Scrapper.

Looking back i should've used the term 'Covert' instead of 'Assasin'. Some heroes may be covert but aren't assasins, and not all Stalkers are Villains now.

I have a NS/Regen stalker (Ninja Sword is the stalker version of Katana) and i picked up the pool power of Phase Shift (3rd tier stealth pool). I have self rezzed in the middle of a large mob and used Phase Shift right after the rez. If i hit it fast enough, it activates before i stand up. If i take too long by even a fraction of a second, it won't activate until the animation finishes. There's a moment after the rez when you can use other stuff, but you gotta be quick.

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