Back Herding
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Back Herding
Looking at the herding thread convinced me to finally ask. Why the hell do my hunts run the opposite direction all the time?! I understand that shooting them into something can cause this but why does it happen even when there isn't anything? Or if there is something in the way do I just decide to leave it? Or is there a way around it.
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Re: Back Herding
There is a max radius that hunts can move from their starting location.
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It happens when your hunts are too far, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
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The only key to consider is that shooting the farthest back animal is best for two reasons.
1. It provides the best movement of the herd
2. The backherding is triggered by the villagers location. Not the location of the herd or the animal shot. So by shooting the furthest away animal at max range you can move the herd closer to your tc.
This isn't a complicated topic but people tend to make it feel like it is mysterious.
1. It provides the best movement of the herd
2. The backherding is triggered by the villagers location. Not the location of the herd or the animal shot. So by shooting the furthest away animal at max range you can move the herd closer to your tc.
This isn't a complicated topic but people tend to make it feel like it is mysterious.
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_H2O wrote:The only key to consider is that shooting the farthest back animal is best for two reasons.
1. It provides the best movement of the herd
2. The backherding is triggered by the villagers location. Not the location of the herd or the animal shot. So by shooting the furthest away animal at max range you can move the herd closer to your tc.
This isn't a complicated topic but people tend to make it feel like it is mysterious.
It's not triggered by the villagers location
It's very easy to test.
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@H2O_
Example screenshots below. The hunt started at the blue dot southeast from the current location. Placed a wall to show where I stood
Sorry for that small text haha, here's the text:
First screenshot -> no backherd
second screenshot -> backherd
H2O_ wrote:notification
Example screenshots below. The hunt started at the blue dot southeast from the current location. Placed a wall to show where I stood
Sorry for that small text haha, here's the text:
First screenshot -> no backherd
second screenshot -> backherd
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Re: Back Herding
He's not asking about shooting hunts backwards. He's asking why hunts move away even when they aren't shot after a period of time. Like why don't they stay stationary
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rsy wrote:He's not asking about shooting hunts backwards. He's asking why hunts move away even when they aren't shot after a period of time. Like why don't they stay stationary
No he isn't lol. Read his post again.
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britishmusketeer wrote:rsy wrote:He's not asking about shooting hunts backwards. He's asking why hunts move away even when they aren't shot after a period of time. Like why don't they stay stationary
No he isn't lol. Read his post again.
Ah never mind
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I usually don't experience backherd that way but if your right then it's random because in the second one both the villager and the animal are closer to the original starting point but it still backherds.
I guess based on the number of dead animals as well I would like to see a video rather than screenshots to fully understand what happened in that test.
I guess based on the number of dead animals as well I would like to see a video rather than screenshots to fully understand what happened in that test.
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The backherd is triggered by the position of one or more (or all animals) of the herd. If it goes outside it's original circonference it bakcherds. The backherd does not necessarily go exactly toward the center of the radius. Also it is hard to know where the center or how long the lenght of the radius actually are. The pertinent area might actually be a diamond rather than a circle.
The specific animal you shoot to herd does affect the animation, yes. The number of animals in a herd does as well I think. The more they are the farther it goes with a single shot, it seems.
The specific animal you shoot to herd does affect the animation, yes. The number of animals in a herd does as well I think. The more they are the farther it goes with a single shot, it seems.
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Garja wrote:The backherd is triggered by the position of one or more (or all animals) of the herd. If it goes outside it's original circonference it bakcherds. The backherd does not necessarily go exactly toward the center of the radius. Also it is hard to know where the center or how long the lenght of the radius actually are. The pertinent area might actually be a diamond rather than a circle.
The specific animal you shoot to herd does affect the animation, yes. The number of animals in a herd does as well I think. The more they are the farther it goes with a single shot, it seems.
After a lot of testing this fits very well with my experience as well.
Think of the hunt location as an invisible dot which the animals randomly wander around. If you shoot the herd, the dot will move x meters in the same direction. But the hunts could move kind of freely around that dot but still follow it when it moves.
Of course just a theory but it fits the behaviour better than theone of individual animals position or the one closest or farthest away.
It would also explain why you get backherd in seemingly random positions. If this dot is stationary but the animals wandered away on their own, it will look like their position is somewhere where its actually not
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Decided there needed to be some descent documentary of this "dear" phenomenon... Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3J75xFRTMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3J75xFRTMc
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tabben wrote:Decided there needed to be some descent documentary of this "dear" phenomenon... Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3J75xFRTMc
Lol, that's the most unfortunate thing that can happen.
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Re: Back Herding
Very unfortunate, but in the end it's what you get when you play on standard Great Plains. Can't really blame the mechanic here, blame the map.
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Can't back herd a hunt if all the bison are dead. Vicswe ahead of the game as always.
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