You definitely already know this, but here it a bug nonetheless! When you attack an NPC, or get aggro, they chase you. We have a couple things going on here that will need to get ironed out.
1) NPC's need to STOP chasing you after a certain time - not too sure what that is. Distance from spawn point, distance from player, timer without attack landing?
2) With /speed 40 on, I can outrun any spawn - yet no matter how far ahead I am, they can still hit me and do damage (reminds me of a certain SOE expansion ~cough~)
3) If you aggro, then /goto or /move, the aggroed NPC is immediately popped where you are and the fight continutes (this will not effect normal players, but likely a part of the above)
Just putting this out here so others know, we know.

4) NPCs that spawn out of range and walk into range are not seen until they reach the end of their movement.
5) Attacking NPCs on long movement loops are still causing problems :/

Lol Do you have nightmares about this?

Nah, I plan on fixing as many bugs as I can for this release and each one gets us one step closer to live. The only major new feature I am adding this release that I haven't already is merchants.

haha, it was a lot of fun trying to lose the mobs that were out to get me, I climbed towers, trees, swam under water, jumped down waterfalls, stairs and sprinted behind the corner and they were still on my neck =)

OK, I have most (all?) of these problems fixed. I'll put it on SVN for you to try it out.

Thanks, LE.

As of right now I defined the max chase distance as 50. Eventually I'll add the field to the database so you can customize each spawn. Each spawns actual position when running should be the position that the client is displaying.

Did you forget to reset the proximity again?

heh, crap yah just a second

kk, it is on svn

All these issues appear to be resolved in rev 125.