Why does this happen: Air Troops getting AGGRO by Ground Only Troops?

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Originally Posted by Yoyobuae

It's "aggro" is not reset. They will continue to attack enemy CC troops (or trap skels) until there's no more "near" them. With "near" being defined as less than 10 tiles away (maybe even longer).

See here:
http://imgur.com/wDF0pG6,UxyfQku,AU9...N3I8ed,WQvSKwW

First some archers which were attacking a dragon and the circled group of dragons aggro'd them. As expected.
Then the same group aggro'd some mages which were quite some distance away, ignoring the nearby AD and WT.
Once the last wiz was killed then they aggro'd the barbs which just had poped out of CC.

In the case of the wiz it was understandable because the wiz was attacking another dragon. But those barbarians didn't have the chance to attack anything, yet the dragons started chasing them, ignoring the AD, WT, Castle, Tesla, TH, etc. Only once the last barbarian was killed did the dragons bother targetting the nearest building (the TH).

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Yeah, that is a good point. Then it's probably an issue that just goes back to how the code is written. If cc troops are out, regardless of type, attacking troops will always go for them unless they are a troop that only attacks defensive buildings. It probably just regards the summoned skeletons (or trapped skellies) as a cc troop. I have seen what you described before.

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Originally Posted by Yoyobuae

It's "aggro" is not reset. They will continue to attack enemy CC troops (or trap skels) until there's no more "near" them. With "near" being defined as less than 10 tiles away (maybe even longer).

See here:
http://imgur.com/wDF0pG6,UxyfQku,AU9...N3I8ed,WQvSKwW

First some archers which were attacking a dragon and the circled group of dragons aggro'd them. As expected.
Then the same group aggro'd some mages which were quite some distance away, ignoring the nearby AD and WT.
Once the last wiz was killed then they aggro'd the barbs which just had poped out of CC.

In the case of the wiz it was understandable because the wiz was attacking another dragon. But those barbarians didn't have the chance to attack anything, yet the dragons started chasing them, ignoring the AD, WT, Castle, Tesla, TH, etc. Only once the last barbarian was killed did the dragons bother targetting the nearest building (the TH).

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The ONLY REASON the drags are targeting the Barbarians, is cause you used a ground troop (barbian king) in ur attack.

This made the Barbians "active" and caused the Drags to attack them.

Im referring to air attacks that have no ground troops (nothing not even heroes)

as for your "reset theory" this isnt true. Ive pulled a CC troops with minnions, the witch makes 1 set of skeletons and then the witch follows the minnion outside the base, i use the drags to kill the witch (outside our reset 10 block range), when the drags are in the range of the skeletons, the skeletons will pull the drags to them even though they are not attacking

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Originally Posted by Yoyobuae

But those barbarians didn't have the chance to attack anything, yet the dragons started chasing them, ignoring the AD, WT, Castle, Tesla, TH, etc. Only once the last barbarian was killed did the dragons bother targetting the nearest building (the TH).

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those barbs became active once the Barb king was used .

notice in the pic, it shows the barb king has been used since its "special ability is ready" is highlighted and can be used (means the barb king is on the battlefield)

Because a troop the cc barbarians could target was placed (the attackers BK), it cause the cc barbarians to be active and the drags to attack them

if no Barb king was used, the drags would not have attacked the barbs

having ground troops being aggro by drags when no "ground troops were used in the attacking army" is the issue of this topic

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Originally Posted by ULTRAELITE

Ive pulled a CC troops with minnions, the witch makes 1 set of skeletons and then the witch follows the minnion outside the base, i use the drags to kill the witch (outside our reset 10 block range), when the drags are in the range of the skeletons, the skeletons will pull the drags to them even though they are not attacking

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That is really interesting. You wouldn't happen to have a screen shot or a replay of this on hand would you? It would be really interesting to see the dragons fly over all of the buildings to get to the skeletons just because of the cc troop targeting system that is in place.

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Originally Posted by ULTRAELITE

if no Barb king was used, the drags would not have attacked the barbs

having ground troops being aggro by drags when no "ground troops were used in the attacking army" is the issue of this topic

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If no BK was used (actually it was hogs which triggered the CC) then barbs would never come out of CC. Are you sure you have seen drags fly past ground only troops without attacking them? I personally have never seen it happen.

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Originally Posted by Firkrag

That is really interesting. You wouldn't happen to have a screen shot or a replay of this on hand would you? It would be really interesting to see the dragons fly over all of the buildings to get to the skeletons just because of the cc troop targeting system that is in place.

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no i just checked, last war had lavahounds in cc (and current war, has no cc troops)

but the witch skeleton pull/aggro happens when the drags are within like a certain range of the skeletons, i know its greater than 5 blocks, but not sure on its upperlimit

like for instance, the drags will pass over the TH and a few defensive buildings to go to the CC where the skeletons were risen and attack each one, since the witch spawns the skeletons scattered around her, the drags individually target each skeleton

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Originally Posted by ULTRAELITE

no i just checked, last war had lavahounds in cc (and current war, has no cc troops)

but the witch skeleton pull/aggro happens when the drags are within like a certain range of the skeletons, i know its greater than 5 blocks, but not sure on its upperlimit

like for instance, the drags will pass over the TH and a few defensive buildings to go to the CC where the skeletons were risen and attack each one, since the witch spawns the skeletons scattered around her, the drags individually target each skeleton

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Yes, I have seen this as well. The only other thing I can think of is maybe the skeletons spawned by a witch are regarded by the dragon as a ground/air target as if the witches A.I., being a ground/air defending unit, were imposed on those summoned skeletons. This is of course taking into assumption that no attacking ground troop had been dropped at any point during the attack. Did you have any ground troop in your cc at the time?

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Originally Posted by Firkrag

Yes, I have seen this as well. The only other thing I can think of is maybe the skeletons spawned by a witch are regarded by the dragon as a ground/air target as if the witches A.I., being a ground/air defending unit, were imposed on those summoned skeletons. This is of course taking into assumption that no attacking ground troop had been dropped at any point during the attack. Did you have any ground troop in your cc at the time?

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no , my attack were all drags and balloons, with no heroes used and the skeletons still pull aggro