At 02:33 AM 8/11/99 -0700, you wrote:

>From: jhenders@...
>
>On Tue, Aug 10/99, Ben Wilson <bwilson@...> wrote:
>> From: Ben Wilson <bwilson@...>
>>
>> I totally agree. There is NO secret nerfing going on. Do you question when
>> you hit for max damage in melee 5 times in a row? Then why the big fuss over
>> some missed notes? It happens, I think they have a name for it, bad luck?
>
>Umm. Take a look at the people who are mentioning this the most. Mostly
>40+ level players. Don't you think someone who had played the game long
>enough to get to that level might just have _some_ feel for how often
>you get a missed note by now?
>
>

Not really. Your own mind can start noticing things it never noticed before
completly unintentionally. An example of this is whenever i learn a new
word... it pops up all over the place. Before i just glanced over it and
ignored it, but now it stands out like a signil fire. I would guess the
same thing is hapenning here... and that nothing has changed, except maybe
a *lessening* of missed notes as verant documented on the higher level
songs. Some individual simply had a bad experiance and could not get selos
started because he happened to have a bad roll of the dice at an
inopportune time. And from that point on it just snowballed down hill and
he started to notice the missed notes because he was now thinking about
them unconsciously all the time.

Gendal Concorden, Master of the Revels, Level 50 bard of Tunare
Who hardly thinks that because he is lvl 50 that makes him a statistician.