I have found the /follow command to be a lifesaver for travelling in groups
with selo's. the only time you could not use it is in areas that are not
wide-open or dangerous, like lavastorm, where you would not use it anyway.
as far as long distance travels tho, auto-follow is awesome.
Shada Silverleaf, Level 46 Bard, Mithaniel Marr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhenders@... [mailto:jhenders@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 10:52 AM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Educating the masses
>
>
> From: jhenders@...
>
> On Wed, Jun 23/99, John Robertson <johnr@...> wrote:
> > chlebek@... wrote:
> > >
> > > Why is the bard song too dangerous?
> >
> > I didn't make the original statement, but I'll tell you why
> *I* think it is
> > too dangerous. The bard song only affects party members
> within a certain
> > range of the bard. We've all experienced the case where a
> party member
> > gets out of range of Selo's Accelerando and then falls
> behind the party.
> > Imagine the same thing happening 100 feet underwater.
>
> Again though, like most of the discussion on my post, this
> misses what I
> thought was my main point, which is that a bard song wearing
> off should
> not nullify an already in effect spell. That is what makes the bard
> song especially dangerous. You can't even use it for yourself when
> grouped or to help one person who the spell effect has worn off from,
> without risking negatively effecting other party members who happen to
> be in range. What makes it doubly dangerous is that the spell icon is
> still in place on their screen, so they may not notice that
> they've lost
> the effect until it's too late.
>
> Your points however are equally valid. It's enough problem keeping a
> party together with Selo's, given that people theoretically run all at
> the same speed in this game, with the huge variation in swimming speed
> depending on skill it wouldnt be much use as the party's main resource
> for an underwater trip. But the cancellation effect makes it less than
> useful as a back up resource as well.
>
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