On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Bill Mann wrote:

>
> Yeah, that's something similar to an idea I've been tossing around for a
> while. In The Realms, there is a spell that summon's the caster's group,
> from anywhere in the game, to their location. Personally, I think this
> would be a great song for one of our still-unfilled slots. Because it's not

Guys, this one ain't gonna fly. One of the big complaints
about UO (from a designer's standpoint) was people recalling
from the bank to the hunting grounds, fighting until full of
loot, recalling to the bank, selling and dropping stuff off,
then recalling bank. While it was convenient, it destroyed
most of the immersion factor of the game by eliminating the
travel component. Verant has been very careful to avoid this
(why none of the teleport points are in or very near high
level hunting grounds, PoH and PoS excepted since it costs
money to teleport to them). They're not going to give us a
song that lets us do it.

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John H. Kim
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