Oh - but no - Verant said long ago that it was NOT a bug.
course, sometimes I don't think they can really make up their minds between
what is a bug/undocumented feature/exploit.
Anyway why would you state it's SO OBVIOUS? Why shouldn't a speed type
effect counter a non-speed type effect? Seems right logical to me. If there
is a bug - it's that the root icon doesn't disappear after being countered.
At 11:45 PM 12/2/99 +0000, you wrote:
>From: "M Sanford (Maev)" <pr0teus@...>
>
>This IS a bug. Its so obvious accelerando wasnt mean to break root and
ghoul root. Moving around while
>there's still the root icon on your screen? Being rooted after you zone?
This is a bug and always has
>been, and using it to break root is exploiting (not that it really matters
to Verant). But I wish bards
>would quit treating this as a nifty feature and acknowledge it as a bug.
So technically the song is not
>"un-broken" as you say.
>
>Maev Lorekeeper
>Tarew Marr
>
>Kimes, Dean W. wrote:
>
>> From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>>
>> On a happier note I did some testing of Accelerando last nite vs. Root.
>> This was prompted because prior to the patch I had made the following
>> observation accidentally in Kithicor.
>>
>> I was running across the zone when a skeleton of some description rooted
me.
>> Accelerando was up and running and of course I stuck in place. Since the
>> Mob wasn't advancing I quickly switched to twisting the two MR songs I had
>> memmed to hopefully resist some spells until Root wore of. Two pulses
later
>> when I got the "you slow down" message from Accelerando running out I was
>> free! Even though I had the Root icon clearly on the screen I was able to
>> run to the zone. Immediately on the other side of the zone I was Rooted
for
>> several minutes. I tested this again before yesterday's patch and the
>> pattern held, Accelerando, if it was on when the Root stuck, would break
the
>> Root when it wore off.
>>
>> After the patch this has again changed. Last nite I tested some more to
see
>> what other change had been made. If you are Rooted and Accelerando is not
>> up, it will not break it. If Accelerando is running when you get Rooted
>> however, the very first "Your feet move faster" pulse message will break
you
>> free. This happened every time I tried it, both with Root and Ghoul Root.
>> The icon remained on the screen and moving to a new zone caused the Root
>> icon to again take hold.
>> For now, as long as Accelerando is running when you get Rooted, relax. At
>> the next pulse you should (to use Verant's wording despite my actual real
>> testing) be able to move freely. If Accelerando goes down though you will
>> not be able to restart it. If you zone with that Root icon still on your
>> screen, expect to be Rooted on the other side.
>>
>> Kitasi
>>
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