On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ronnie Roads wrote:

> On a related note, given that the Watchman boot quest has
> to be started on a particular day/time in game, I need to
> remind myself of the conversion from Earth to Norrathian
> time. Last time I payed a lot of attention was trying to

About a RL hour and a half to a Norrathian day I believe.
Back when there was only one FP<->BB boat, it did a round trip
once every 12 game hours, which was 45 minutes.

Since it would've been too convenient for people to be able to
type /time and figure the boat was going to arrive in 4 game
hours, Verant decided to make it not quite 12 game hours so
the exact time during the day drifts with each successive
trip. :P

> predict the time of sunrise in North Karana so as to
> schedule a wedding =). Notice that Norrath doesn't rotate
> on its axis hehe.

It does rotate on its axis. The world is flat. :)

> Regarding mana song: have we chatted about its effect on
> casting cost? Anyone done tests?

There is a known Clarity bug where your mana bar will show a
greater amount than you really have (phantom mana). Casting a
spell will make it show the correct amount. This bug has
gotten a lot of casters incorrectly assuming Clarity is
causing their spells to consume more mana. It's just a client
update problem that nobody has been able to track down.

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John H. Kim
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