» Fri May 27, 2011 1:21 pm Edit: Fixed my problem. I knew it couldn't have been BBC, which was what was frustrating the crap out of me. It was a map marker mod affecting the cells. I've had the mod for years and merged it with something else, I had forgotten all about it. Ignore my moment of stupidity. 
Happily ignored, since I have no clue what the problem was, now that you've edited your comment
On another note, when I was running around Leyawiin to get screens for this post, I had a http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc105/zinnikeys/BC/BC-Leyaw-WallArcher.jpg commit suicide as I was walking by the guard tower in this http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc105/zinnikeys/BC/BC-Leyaw-WallGuardsMapPosition.jpg. And no he's not missing any clothing, I took a piece or two from him. Also, I'm not sure if it was the same guard or not, but a few minutes before that one fell to his death, a guard was having a hard time leaving the same tower to get to wherever he was going. Instead of using the stairs at the bottom of the tower to get to the ground, he tried walking over the boulder next to the stairs, fell through it popped back atop the stairs, took the stairs the proceeded to walk into the back of the house closest the tower. Finally figuring out he wasn't going to be able to walk through that wall, he moved around a large rock and tried a new section of the house's wall. After giving up all hope of being able to walk through walls he finally trotted down the dirt path, around the house and vanished.
Either that was a different guard or after he finally found the road and went around the house, he literally did vanish and reappeared somewhere up in the air above that guard tower and fell to his death. Which I'm guessing is the more likely explanation as the 'blind' guard did seem to be rubber-banding a bit.
Either that was a different guard or after he finally found the road and went around the house, he literally did vanish and reappeared somewhere up in the air above that guard tower and fell to his death. Which I'm guessing is the more likely explanation as the 'blind' guard did seem to be rubber-banding a bit.
Yes, this is quite common guard behaviour. We've tried whipping them into submission, and cutting their pay, yet they still insist on doing silly things like stepping off walltops and trying to walk through solid objects. There's two possible reasons: 1) another mod loaded after BC is editing the pathgrids, or 2) they're just too stupid to know better. Usually reason 2 is the correct explanation. If it troubles you, simply remove the City Defences ESP(s) from your load order, otherwise just do as I do when spotting a foolish guard: smile benignly, shake your head knowingly, and go about your business. You might also want to donate to the "Save the Foolish Guards" fund, but first someone will need to create such a fund before you can donate to it.
