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I'm having an issue. I can't get my guard mobs to follow my commander mob upon loading.

Here's what I have.

5000H 100M 82V > tstat 62203
Name: 'Thieves Commander Follow Order', VNum: [62203], RNum: [ 1477]
Trigger Intended Assignment: Mobiles
Trigger Type: Load , Numeric Arg: 100, Arg list: None
Commands:
wait 2 sec
say Insisto!

AND

Name: 'Guard Follow Commander', VNum: [62204], RNum: [ 1478]
Trigger Intended Assignment: Mobiles
Trigger Type: Speech , Numeric Arg: 100, Arg list: Insisto!
Commands:
follow %actor.name

Mobs don't follow the commander. I've changed if from

follow %actor.name% to
follow %actor% to
follow commander

Nothing seems to work... What am I missing... It has to be something stupid..

You need to set numeric arg to 0.

See knew it was something stupid like that.

This doesn't work all of the time...

Example 1 - It works.

5000H 100M 82V AFK > zreset
Reset zone #622: The City Of Thieves.

5000H 100M 82V AFK >
Lieutenant Commander Coldar says, 'Insisto!'
A guard starts to follow Lieutenant Commander Coldar.
A guard starts to follow Lieutenant Commander Coldar.
A guard starts to follow Lieutenant Commander Coldar.

Example 2 - It Works Again

5000H 100M 82V AFK > zreset
Reset zone #612: Cleric City.

5000H 100M 82V AFK >
The High Priest says, 'Insisto!'
A temple guard starts to follow the High Priest.
A temple guard starts to follow the High Priest.
A temple guard starts to follow the High Priest.

Example 3 - Nothing.

Reset zone #611: City of Magis.

5000H 100M 82V AFK >
An old blind mage says, 'Insisto!'


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It's all the same set of trigger. I don't see why it works once place and not another. Unless having another trigger set to the leading mobs throws off the follow, which i don't see why it would...

Here are the triggers.

5000H 100M 82V AFK > tstat 62204
Name: 'Guard Follow Commander', VNum: [62204], RNum: [ 1478]
Trigger Intended Assignment: Mobiles
Trigger Type: Speech , Numeric Arg: 0, Arg list: Insisto!
Commands:
follow %actor.name%
end

5000H 100M 82V AFK > tstat 62203
Name: 'Thieves Commander Follow Order', VNum: [62203], RNum: [ 1477]
Trigger Intended Assignment: Mobiles
Trigger Type: Load , Numeric Arg: 100, Arg list: None
Commands:
wait 2 sec
say Insisto!

First off - mfollow is what you're after.

mfollow %actor%

Your issue probably stems from the use of %actor.name% - .name is "alias list".

Also, you might want to first check if the leader is a mobile (or players can draw away all the followers by saying insisto themselves):

I'll give it a try to see if that helps.

Had it as follow and not mfollow just so that I could make sure that they were in fact following the mob.

Still doesn't work on the same set of mobs.

I honestly just think this set of mobs don't like me.

EDIT:

Got it to work... changed the mobs name from A blind man, to The blind man and it worked...

This happens often when a keyword matches an object in inventory, a different mob, or something like that. Echo your variables to see what they really contain and switch into the mob to test it manually.

A useful technique in trying to figure out why a mob script isn't working would be to switch into the mob.

This then means that you will see any messages, maybe like:

which would indicate that the target of the follow command is invisible, or the mob you are in is blind. Of course, it may be a different reason, but switching into the mob might reveal the reason.