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Message ID: 15369
Date: Wed Feb 23 22:40:27 GMT 2000
Author: jhenders@bogon.com
Subject: Re: Today's patch


My problem with this explanation is that most other changes like this to
were done just to the PvP servers, not every server. Why was this done
to all the servers to address a problem specific to the PvP servers?

On Wed, Feb 23/00, Adam Wasserman <wassermana@...> wrote:
> From: "Adam Wasserman" <wassermana@...>
>
> The change was made for a very specific reason, and in some ways I support
> it.
>
> Primarily it was this:
>
> Caster A who is low on mana would bind himself.
> Caster A, not wanting to wait the 5 min to med to full (or whatever it is)
> would duel Friend B.
> Caster A would lose, loot corpse, mem spells and Voila, full mana.
>
> It was an exploit to reduce down time, since dying in PvP incurrs no exp
> loss.

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