I just started making fishing lures, so I'm always busy during downtime
now. My poor fingers never get a break. Good thing I never play all that
long anyway. I may end up just being a fishing bard. If this patch goes
through, that may be all I'd be happy doing with my bard.
I wonder how Verant would want us to role-play our song just immediately
stopping. "Hmmm, that's not how the tune went. Was there a key change in
there?" :-P
---Windleaf
At 02:00 PM 10/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
>lol. I always hit forage when it comes up so I never thought about sitting
>somewhere for more than a couple of minutes without hitting a button. It
>would never happen anyhow, too many casters go away after blowing all their
>mana while soloing and med for 15+ minutes while doing something else.
>
> Kit
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Tatsukawa [mailto:john@...]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:53 PM
>To: eqbards@egroups.com
>Subject: RE: [eqbards] Change to bard song mechanics on Test!
>
>
>I agree with you Kit. It's bad.
>
>Us bards have to press buttons every 5 secs to change songs and now we'll
>have to continue to be chained to our desks during downtime.
>
>Auto-logoff would be really bad, btw. Have you ever been in a room that has
>a motion sensor light? If you sit at your desk and you're reading, you have
>to wave your hand in the air every 15 min or end up in the dark.
>
>Auto-logoff is the same thing. You may be sitting reading stuff on your
>screen, not necessarily pushing any buttons for 10 mins, but get booted off
>just because the server thinks you're inactive. You'd have to make sure you
>push a button every 10 mins or be booted. After you're booted, you'd lose
>all of your no-rent items as well as any illusions you had up. I don't
>think Verant would even implement such a bad thing. Uhh, maybe not. Don't
>post the auto-logoff thing on the web Kit. Please! :-)
>
>---Windleaf
>
>At 01:25 PM 10/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >So it's okay to go AFK for 30 minutes to meditate or chloroplast heal but
> >not to Hymn? So are all caster buffs going to end when the caster logs off
> >so they can't park an enchanter nearby just to clarity and log him on and
> >off? Plain and simple this is stupid. It's another example of where
> >probably some bard was sitting AFK on the planes and now we all have to be
> >nerfed because someone abused the situation. Heaven forbid they should
> >handle this by putting in an auto logoff when someone is inactive for more
> >than 10 minutes like most games do.
> >
> > Kit
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: John Tatsukawa [mailto:john@...]
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:22 PM
> >To: eqbards@egroups.com; 'eqbards@egroups.com'
> >Subject: RE: [eqbards] Change to bard song mechanics on Test!
> >
> >
> >Absor has asked everyone to switch to a different thread on this:
> >
> >http://boards.station.sony.com/everquest/Forum3/HTML/003015.html
> >
> >I'd have to agree with Lago on Verant's reasoning that this is to keep us
> >from going AFK indefinitely.
> >
> >---Windleaf
> >
> >
> >At 12:58 PM 10/31/00 -0700, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:
> > >Of course this will make Aria and Clouding instant death songs in many
> > >situations. I'm hoping this is a bug and not a change or I will be done,
> > >trade skill changes or not. Maybe I won't uncancel my account next week
> > >after all, sigh.
> > >
> > > Kit
> > >
> > >I just came across this thread in whineplay, which I think all of you
> >should
> > >take a look at. Evidently there has been a change to the mechanics of
>bard
> > >song on Test:
> > >
> > >http://boards.station.sony.com/everquest/Forum2/HTML/027490.html
> > >
> > >It appears that this change is to keep us from indefinitely playing a
>song
> > >while AFK. The message received is evidently "Your song ends abruptly",
> >and
> > >has a chance of occuring on every pulse. Once again, Verant seems to be
> > >putting the screws to us. We can't take a break at all from the keyboard
> >if
> > >we want to keep two songs up, now I have to stay at the keyboard to keep
> >one
> > >song up as well. I guess bards dont need bathroom breaks.
> > >
> > >All this will do is encourage more use of a macroed gamepad.
> > >
> > >Lago Bardoon of Bertoxx, 48th Composition, Defenders of Aleria
> > >
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