Some good testing here. This may be the perfect time to get this looked
into, in light of their obvious sensitivity to the recent Alchemy
debacle. I'd suggest cc'ing the email to Brad as well as GZ and ask that
they look into the testing methods they are using to confirm that it
actually works as intended.

On Thu, Dec 09/99, "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...> wrote:

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> That might make sense, except that from the data it was apparent with
> Lullaby that either the Mez (your right better term) lasted the full
> duration, or it lasted for 0 duration. It never lasted for 3 seconds as
> would be the case if they were getting a chance to break out every round.
> Since these mobs all had Speed Factors of 30 it was really easy to see. I'd
> lullaby, mobs would nod. Some nodded mobs would attack immediately,
> sometimes in the middle of propagating the nods messages. No mobs that did
> not attack immediately would attack thruout that entire pulse. The nodded
> mobs that attacked the first time would attack again. The nod messages
> would propagate again followed by attacks from some of the nodded mobs
> immediately thereafter. Often different nodded mobs, no apparent pattern of
> once it sticks you are good, mobs that didn't false nod for 10 pulses would
> often false nod for 2 in a row thereafter.
>

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