screw everything, adding dogs!! is paramount

[Jackard]

omg it spins

pull up to the stop sign, wolves still spinnin

o.o

GET THOSE DOGS

[Onionfighter]

Make them spawn in groups and if one attacks they all attack. And if they knock you down they eat you.

[OvShit]

Hey, here`s an idea: add dogs but make`em purely decorative. They`re living in a doghouse, need to be fed with raw meat and they bark. They bring no profit, ofc.

[Thijssnl]

Yo rims, nice dawgs on your car!

[Reeyfer]

Wait the AI isn't good enough for hunting dogs, or just dogs period? Because for a guard dog it would seem like you would just give it grizzly ai, amp up its detect radius and hostility, and convince it that all trespassers are prey items. Have them roam randomly the rest of the time, incapable of traveling outside the owner's claim unless attacked (and then traveling back if scared off, lost the target (deaggro) or killed/incapped the target. That would be pretty awesome, especially if they gave them bear-like prowess when bred up to the top level. One or two, sure, most good players can handle. But a lot of people who could punch a brick wall down might go look for another if they saw a couple dozen mean arse wolf dogs roaming around inside.

What is the problem with the ai for this anyway? Because it WOULD be awesome although there is a lot of other stuff that seems higher priority than trying to work up new ai if the current couldn't be hacked into suitability.

OR you could, as brickbasher, just bring a bow anyway and snipe the dogs?
Sounds rubbish to me!

Well obviously there would be ways to trick them just like there are any wild animal, since they'd just use a mashup of wild animal ai and since any ai in any game is pretty easy to trick. The whole point is a small pack would discourage low level raiders, a single good dog would discourage noob scavengers (if you could store them in the item slots on wagons and have them attack anyone who opens the wagon it would be pretty funny... honeytrapping would explode though ) and a gigantic pack would discourage vet raiders (especially if you could somehow make them attack in groups, combining their damage against armor soak, which would make sense since a guy in armor against a large pack of pissed off attack dogs is pretty much screwed unless he's wearing some magical suit of armor that has no gaps and no friction points or angles at all for them to latch on to. Chain mail and plate with leather leggings would just slow you down and encourage them to kill you from the crotch up). Sure they wouldn't stop some of the people with massive stats, but neither does a wall or a building or anything else but another high level player. This is highlander online, or didn't you know?

[Potjeh]

OR you could, as brickbasher, just bring a bow anyway and snipe the dogs?
Sounds rubbish to me!

Doghouses, and dogs only come out if they have a target they can path to.

[Jackard]

Doghouse sounds like its for a pet. I think you mean kennels.

[Danno]

Make them spawn in groups and if one attacks they all attack. And if they knock you down they eat you.

Hahaha, yes! And/or maybe make it like Call of the Wild where these dogs even fight each other.

As for people saying they should attack chickens, I think it would be more appropriate for them to attack the foxes that attack chickens. What good would it do you to have your own dog thwart your attempts to obtain live chickens?
Maybe they could help you track scents and blah blah I'm sure every good idea's already been mentioned.

[Potjeh]

Doghouse sounds like its for a pet. I think you mean kennels.

Kennels sounds like a big building where you keep a bunch of dogs together. Doghouse sounds like it's for a single dog, so you can deploy them individually where you want them.

Then again, I could be wrong about the word kennels, I'm not a native speaker.

[Jackard]

its basically the same thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennel