Can no longer attack an animal while under attack by a PC.

Can no longer attack an animal while under attack by a PC.

I like the idea that I won't accidentally kill myself when I get attacked, but it does close two strategies.
the first strategy is a way of protecting your gold from those with better items: If I'm getting attacked and I'm close to an upgrade, I might be able to attack a few animals really quickly, get some gold, then upgrade my equipment and die. I won't have anything stolen, as the attacker has better items already, and I won't lose as much gold if I've just upgraded.
The second strategy is a way of protecting your items from those with worse equipment: If I'm being attacked, I can attack a dragon, hoping to get hit. If the dragon kills me, I lose gold, same as I would if I'm killed by a player, but a dragon can't steal items from me.

So, these strategies are no longer valid, but they were fun to think of and use, for the limited time I was able to.

So, although the update did help a lot of people, it did remove a few interesting strategies.

I'm for more freedom in this game, in the last two days you have severly crippled people's freedoms.

Shinynew wrote:

I'm for more freedom in this game, in the last two days you have severly crippled people's freedoms.

I agree. At least replace this with a run or block strategy.

Yes some thing other than simply being able to attack, or be attacked (and upgrade) would add so much to the gameplay, like possibly blocking or dodgeing or even trying to get away (they cant attack your for X seconds)