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.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...
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I am curious John, is this the only problem you see
with this song? What about the song the way it was
originally stated with "in zone" party members only?

I was worried that this teleport song treads on other
classes, but we already have the Mell. Motion song.
This is basically just the opposite of that song, so I
am not sure.

I have lurked on this for a long while and you seem to
always think of things or problems that I overlook. I
am highly curious as to what you think of the original
idea.

Jada of Povar

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