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Yarash

Some items were never meant to be recharged, such as the wand of thunderous rage found in a junk pile. I believe there are other wands that load without chages too. I even think one is dragonscales. Obviously such a wand was never meant to be rechargable. This is a sweet idea though. Someone would n...

Yarash

My biggest concern is how this will affect anyone under level 41. Detect invis is supposed to be a very basic spell. You get it at level 1. It would also be rather annoying or confusing to cast detect invis and still not be able to see an invisible player, especially at lower levels. I would like th...

Yarash

And comparing procs on a warrior's weapon and invoker damage isn't quite fair. Most warrior weapons that proc fairly regularly are mainly the damage ones. The only utility one that procs often is the ebony, but the fact it is only blind (which how many different classes have?) and it is a very shor...

Yarash

I would hardly call an Invoker's procs a "highlight" of the class... Question: did you roll your invokers because of the procs invokers get? Another question: if you never had procs along with your invoker spells would you even miss them or even think to ask for them and give a viable reason to hav...

Yarash

It seems unlikely that invokers would ever get a pet. If they did, it would have to be so small that it could not be used to tank, as that would negatively affect game balance. I often wish I could make a small pet though, to see into dark rooms, test unexplored portals for aggros, etc.

- Mike

Yarash

They're not supposed to necessarily be "interesting" I disagree. I think this game should be fun to play. Corth sums up my feelings on this in his post. Don't make the class more boring, unplayable, or deleted. If magical damage is a problem, sesexe's idea of reducing it across the board should be ...

Yarash

rylan wrote:I think it would be cool to be able to remove and equip other items with a lag penalty. Say like 2 rounds of lag, and you get no attacks and your defense skills are disabled while putting on a new item in combat.

This sounds like a good idea.

- Mike

Yarash

The mud has 13,350 different mobs. Your suggestion would require evaluating and modifying nearly every one, as well as code changes. Do you really think that much lost productivity would be worth the result?

- Mike

Yarash

The answer to your second question (Sarell) is no, which probably answers your first question. Although I think I disagree that there is an abundance of it. I've been working on my mages' equipment for a couple years now and both are on or near an ac rating of 0, which seems about right. I am aware ...

Yarash

but I absolutely agree any way to make them die a little more in zones would be neat, make them into fragile little folk They are fragile now and die enough already. The average base hp range seems to be about 160-200 which seems to be less than other mages. With the casting of area spells more so ...

Yarash

Invokers --Keep the damage that all their spells do, get rid of all of the spell procs. This is a damage class and I'm not convinced the spell procs both fit the role of the class AND are needed to make the class useful in a zone. I know there are people who would disagree with one of those thought...

Yarash

Also the cave with the bear in it is flagged as underwater.

- Mike

Yarash

Disoputlip wrote:holy water sprinkler should not be on this mud

This is a real item used to deliver holy water onto groups of people during masses. It's not like a lawn sprinkler, if that's what you think it is... 8)

- Mike

Yarash

I just saw this on the fatwallet site and after looking at the news article someone linked to decided to give it a shot. I guess by law the three credit reporting companies must give you access once a year now. I went through experian and it showed me my report...never asked for credit card info or ...

Yarash

Birile reminds me a lot of an ogre's bowel movement. Time rids us of the BM, yet Birile remains. Baffling! Someone let that little halfling know there's a pinata missing at a party! No! Better yet, little Biriles running about everywhere are great. They remind us what happens when you don't flush! ...

Yarash

I would like to see some improvements made to reply, so hopefully I can convince a coder this is worth their time. Right now if you can't reply to a person, it says "No-one by that name here...". I was talking to a new player and trying to explain our spell system to him when that message appeared. ...

Yarash

Drache wrote:You all quests are to become or receive more.

The quest is to change your class. The quest is also optional. Nobody is forced to be a Lich if they don't want to. Having classes other than your own change is part of the game.

- Mike

Yarash

I fought a mob in WD tonight. The mob called for help. I died a couple rounds later. After I logged back in, guards came and arrested me. Seems kind of buggy so I thought I'd mention it here. The expected behavior was after dying the guards would not come.

- Mike

Yarash

If you want ways to lose eq, having it degrade over time is a bad idea imo. The way to go is death traps. If you lose eq to a death trap it is your own fault, and nobody elses. This mud could never handle that though. The people that are here generally like things the way they are. This is not a har...

Yarash

The mud I played prior to this one used movement points for melee skills. They also had a vigorize spell. Having tried both, I much prefer not using movement points for melee skills, though it would certainly make things more interesting in zones. Bash took 20 movement points. Tanks calling for vigs...

Yarash

As new, harder zones are introduced into any mud, older zones become easier. The common view seems to be that this is a bad thing. I disagree. I like having a wide range of zone difficulties available. Zones such as IC vault, SG and Brass tend to be mentioned specifically. (Nobody mentions moon temp...

Yarash

I really have enjoyed Mitharx's leads, especially in Meilech.

If the stats are adding up and everything is correct, this is an area that needs to be looked at subjectively. I'd reverse the hp/mana on that tattered cloak too.

- Mike

Yarash

Rangers should get a lot of moves, but I'm not so sure about the other fighter classes...walking around in heavy armor tends to slow a person down. 100 moves seems fine as the standard. If you start lowering it this is just going to serve as a severe annoyance for low level players, who are the peop...

Yarash

But what about when that player is honestly offended at the 'harmless ribbing?' You can talk about "shoulds" all you want, but you can't always be certain of the temperament of the player, or the imm for that matter. As I said, Lili could have handled it differently, but what I'm waiting for is som...

Yarash

Thank you for the comments. There is an article here if anyone is interested

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/monte ... 232627.htm

Yarash

I've got this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach that is just eating away at me. My mom went through surgery three days ago for breast cancer and a lymph node was removed from or near one of her arms. That arm is in a weakened state so about two hours ago I drover her around on errands. We were dr...

Yarash

Encouraging people to set their home page as the voting button page would help I think...if people did it.

- Mike

Yarash

teflor the ranger wrote:Well, was sort of implying that we don't thank them as much for other things.

This is true. The staff here is more accessible and restrained than on most muds, and gets thanked little, if at all.

- Mike

Yarash

You know, Shianna is a dude

Yarash

Well, a human dire or gnome psi is just silly, but an orc anti-paladin is conceivable. I think I've seen an orc anti-paladin mob, so maybe it's in D&D rules or something. Some research would be appropriate...from someone with more current books than mine. There would be an effect on balance though. ...

Yarash

Excellent.

I was thinking about this issue awhile ago as well, and a couple ideas came to mind (though not as good as yours).
1. Dark glasses (sunglasses)
2. Blind man's cane - use to figure out the room's exits, and maybe if it has mobs (slow execution rate, like search command)

- Mike

Yarash

I've also had trouble finding new players recently (last few weeks). About half a year ago I found several new players. I think when we had our initial push by the staff to vote on that topmuds site, it really helped a lot.

- Mike

Yarash

I tend to agree that this can be a problem. A devious person could probably press a corpse once with a level one character and have it rot within a few minutes. Something's not right if that scenario would work. I've also lost a corpse of my own when in a zone I was told my corpse was pressed. I inc...

Yarash

What makes the harm song cool is that you can keep singing it continuously without needing to rest. Also, it seems to hit everything in the room, whereas spells affect a limited number of mobs. The damage isn't high enough to be a popular song in zones though. If it got a small damage increase it st...

Yarash

Wouldn't it be so much more useful if this "swarm" of needles was actually an area effect spell (like the "swarm" of meteors in meteor swarm, for instance)? I'd like to bring up the idea for giving people a choice on this. Just as bards can target a single mob or the whole room, I was thinking spel...

Yarash

Ihazim wrote:Games like grand theft auto

In Toril, respect is everything...

*techno music begins playing, camera shows an ogre punching a paladin and stealing his horse*

(couldn't help myself ;)

Yarash

I dunno if implementing ebay-style auction code, testing, editing etc is not kinda wasting our coders' time when they could be, say ironing out tiamat or working on other core issues. Coders will do what they feel like doing. However, I tend to think that the code that is used the most should get t...

Yarash

oteb wrote:It is quite simple. It in fact has already happened. And there are certain people who are responisble for it.

The purpose of voting should be to choose policies, not punish leaders. This is not a trivial matter. These policies could determine if people are going to live or die.

- Mike

Yarash

You make it sound simple. The thing is, votes now will affect what is going to happen, not what has already happened. It's a question of who's idea for resolving the situation you prefer.

- Mike

Yarash

I'd like to suggest a change of wording for the recall text. Right now if you aren't in a hometown and type recall, it states: "You utter a single word, but nothing seems to happen." This could be made more newbie friendly by mentioning that the command is not working because the player is not in a ...

Yarash

fotex wrote:Sounds like it could get extra spammy with enough proxies in play, and small bid increments. :P

Only if coded poorly. The coders here would do a good job.

- Mike

Yarash

being able to put cursed and !drop items in containers would be nice. Since we insist on fumbling to the ground, every weapon you have basically needs to be cursed. I like this as well. To counter the argument that it could be used to drop cursed junk items by putting them in bags, the bags could b...

Yarash

Being able to put an instrument in a container while in combat would be cool too. I believe this is the cause of instruments piling up in inventory.

- Mike

Yarash

Would an ebay-like system with proxy bidding be preferable to everyone? I assume everyone is familiar with how that works, but the basic idea is that you bid your maximum, and the system automatically handles the incrementing of the bid amount. Thoughts? YES! This would be the perfect setup, should...

Yarash

not that my input matters, but the main reason I don't play is that it isn't worth the investment of time I *could* put into the game. would a pwipe get me to play again? yes, for a time. maybe quite a long time. but it won't happen. the problem i have at the moment with sojourn is that it caters t...

Yarash

I hate the bid increment thing also - why let it be over 100p? First, an increment proportional to the item's market value will generally improve the final price. Likewise, low increments lead to lower final prices. Second, this is really the only protection sellers have against sniping. The increm...

Yarash

As I understand there were a lot of one-way rooms that caused mobs to stack up, and that this was a mistake. If it's been changed it might be worth checking it out again.

- Mike

Yarash

Sometime within the last year, GamePro or EGM ran a segment on the steps to take to get into the video game business. You may wish to contact them to find out who ran it, and order a copy.

- Mike

Yarash

I think that once the excitement of the first year is over, it is gone for good. The only way to get this excited again is to go to a different mud. It has to be a good mud though. However, there are things you can do to improve your interest level. > Start up a new character from scratch of the oth...

Yarash

I think it depends on the item. When presented with, a large diamond for example, most mobs would thank the person and keep it I'd think. Something like a dripping spider head might cause the mob to gasp and drop the item.

- Mike

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