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Message ID: 331
Date: Wed Apr 28 16:40:12 BST 1999
Author: John Robertson
Subject: Bellow's intended effect (speculative)


>
> 1. Bellow first came out doing 35 or so points a shout, 50's at level 20.
> You can almost drop a red creature without having to even run from it. It
> was an exploit because the song was too powerful. I hear some, however,
> thought it perfectly natural... They soon toned it down to where it
> currently is.

An interesting tidbit.

Apparently the way Bellow was supposed to work was that it was to do the huge amount
of damage that it originally did (something like four times what it does now), but
singing it was supposed to render you unable to sing any other song for the entire
delay time of the Bellow (to see how long this is, bellow at something once and see
how long it takes for the button to enable itself again without you clicking on it).

I guess the idea was that the song was bad for your voice. :)

If Bellow actually worked this way, would it be an improvement? Would people prefer
that it worked this way?

Jyzan