NPC Hirelings (and pets) out of town should be able to guard just about anything, other NPCs, items you place on the ground, corpses, a door to your house, but they don't... it just gives a message
"Only your pets may be guarded."
When you have a NPC Paladin patrol the message is also wrong. It says...
"Your pet begins to patrol."
It should be "Your hireling begins to patrol."
npc hirelings get pet mesages/dont behave properly
npc hirelings get pet mesages/dont behave properly
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Re: npc hirelings get pet mesages/dont behave properly
The limitations on what can be guarded are accurate to mid '99 OSI as linked in the patch note posted above. OSI patch for this change was 3/18/98. http://update.uo.com/oldupdates/3-18-98.shtml
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Re: npc hirelings get pet mesages/dont behave properly
Matron and Derrick thanks, I didn't realize this was changed in 98.
It was so long ago I didn't remember that patch was when things changed.
It was so long ago I didn't remember that patch was when things changed.
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Re: npc hirelings get pet mesages/dont behave properly
np 
The message correction went in on Tuesday.
The message correction went in on Tuesday.
"The text in this article or section may be incoherent or very hard to understand, and should be reworded if the intended meaning can be determined."
Re: npc hirelings get pet mesages/dont behave properly
Twas fantastic before the change went in. I recall we used to stash a tame rabbit under the roof of a building/house and have it guard a pile of gold and items. It was also a time when corpses would decay and just drop the contents in a stack.
Anytime someone came by to grab the loot, they'd flag gray and either get guard whacked or noto pk'd.
Anytime someone came by to grab the loot, they'd flag gray and either get guard whacked or noto pk'd.
Save yourself the shame and embarrassment and just assume that if you can't understand me...you're the one who's retarded.
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Re: npc hirelings get pet mesages/dont behave properly
We had those old guarding rules here when they were thought to be accurate. However, sadly the criminal flag never worked correctly, and when a pet attacked a person taking a guarded item, the person who issued the command flagged and got a murder count, rather than the OSI way of the guarded item thief turning grey.