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<b>Message ID:</b> 16897 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Mon Mar 27 19:02:21 BST 2000 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Kevin L. Crawford <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [eqbards] Digest Number 839 <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1746288116"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; &gt;   In early beta, the Bard sang his/her song to everyone around them.<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; As has been mentioned before:  This is not true.  This occured in<br/>
 </span></blockquote>late/mid<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt; Beta 3 and lasted for about 3 weeks.  It was a bug and it took them a<br/>
 </span></blockquote>while<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt; to figure out what they broke when they modified our songs.  This was<br/>
 </span></blockquote>also<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;<br/>
&gt; If a simple bug caused this, then despite the exact order it<br/>
&gt; happened in, the point of the original poster still stands.<br/>
&gt; It sounds like our songs are actually implemented to affect<br/>
&gt; everyone/everything in an area of effect, and checks are in<br/>
&gt; place to disregard the song if you&#39;re not in the bard&#39;s group<br/>
&gt; (or vice versa if an offensive song).<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I still wonder about that.  I bet the reason our songs had too much taunt<br/>
power until recently was that they fixed the EFFECT  so that it only<br/>
affected<br/>
the group (when they fixed the bug) but they forgot to fix the fact that<br/>
npc&#39;s could detect it<br/>
&quot;trying&quot; to buff people that aren&#39;t in the group.  Thus causing our songs to<br/>
have a greater &quot;taunt&quot; than they should.<br/>
<br/>
I wonder if that is what they fixed which seems to have so dramatically<br/>
reduced our taunt?  Just a hunch...</div>