If you are going to re-run the tests also try this:
Clarity - song 1 - Clarity - song 2 - Clarity - song 1 etc...
My guess is it should be the same as Clarity alone......
Rokenn
>From: <kim@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: [eqbards] Clarity and mana regen (fwd)
>Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:34:30 -0500 (EST)
>
>Well, if you're going to put it in the Song Analysis, let me
>double-check the figures...
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:52:34 -0400 (EDT)
>From: kim@...
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Clarity and mana regen
>
>Ok, I tested it again with a friend last night, L39 cleric,
>L40 bard.
>
>Normal med, 1 bubble - 100 sec
>Med with Clarity left on, 1 bubble - 62 sec
>Med with Clarity start/stopped each message, 1 bubble - 62 sec
>Med with Clarity/Hymn, 1 bubble - 62 sec
>Med with Clarity/Hymn/Accel, 1 bubble - 74 sec
>
>From this, I'd conclude it does *not* give you mana back each
>pulse. If that were true, start/stopping Clarity with each
>message, which generates a new message about every 3-4 seconds
>vs. every 6 seconds, should've dropped the meditate time to
>about 40 seconds. There is no way experimental error
>(eyeballing 1 bubble, fumbling with the stopwatch, 6 second
>screen updates) could account for this huge a difference.
>
>Furthermore, we got the exact same med time playing Clarity
>with one other song, but not Clarity with 2 other songs. I
>dunno if this is different from other songs, I'll have to test
>it with Hymn some time - I recall getting the feeling our
>songs were not lasting as long as before a couple months
>ago. But it seems the latent duration of Clarity is not quite
>as long as the other songs, and you lose the effect if you
>take longer than about 6 sec to refresh it. That would mean
>if you're timing meditate times playing Clarity + another
>song, and you're "lazy" and don't immediately switch songs
>when you get the message, you could be letting Clarity expire,
>thus creating the illusion that Clarity is not as effective
>when woven with another song.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
>
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