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Message ID: 13028
Date: Wed Jan 12 19:02:30 GMT 2000
Author: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4
Subject: Brad On Binding (OT)


That will work fine and dandy assuming you trust the people enough in your
group to pull your corpse to the zone to get a res. If you are in a pickup
group and don't know the people you are grouping with, you are taking a big
risk if you /consent them. Thats one of the disadvantages of a pickup group
I discussed below.

Galtin of E'ci

> Get a cleric in your group and s/he will summon deads to their corpses.
> Fast
> and easy.
>
> From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
>
> I agree. I usually find myself joining pickup groups. What I have found
> is
> that in pickup groups, players tend to look out for themselves before
> considering the welfare of the party. To add salt to the wound, the
> problem
> is
> magnified because of the time I usually log on. I live in Hawaii so when
> I
> play
> its usually after midnight on the mainland on weeknights. When a pull
> turns
> bad
> and someone dies, especially if it is a melee class bound in a zone far
> away,
> the party usually either breaks up because its so late at night or the
> casters
> leave the group because it will take the melee class too long to get back
> to
> the
> zone they died in.
>
> I think its safe to say that Verant doesn't take situations like this into
> consideration when they have the mythical class balance tuning sessions.
> I
> think they just assume everyone has a regular group/guild that they play
> with
> all the time and as a result they are focused on group welfare vs personal
> welfare.
>
> Galtin of E'ci
>
>
>