On Fri, Sep 24/99, Greg Gillan <GGillan@...> wrote:

> 6) Recent patches have had a serious impact on the song Selo's Accelerando
> with the following negative side effects: This song no longer breaks root.
> We were under the impression that this was an intended benefit, is this a
> bug, or has this functionality been intentionally removed? Also SoW now
> overrides our song, in effect cancelling it out. Many bards have already
> complained about having SoW intentionally cast on them as a form of
> harassment. Are there any plans to A) make SoW removable by clicking on it
> as was recently done for levetate, or B) make it so that Selo's overrides
> SoW, but when Selo's wears off, or goes out of range, SoW will continue to
> work. When could we expect such a change to occur?
>

I'm really a bit worried about this one. My problem with it is that
their history shows that complaints like this result in an even more
annoying quick fix. A classic example is the change to invisibility.
People used to cast it on pet owners to make the pet vanish. Verant's
response was to make invisible only castable on a group member. If they
did this to SoW it would be an incredible pain in the butt for everyone
in the game, as then to SoW some poor guy running back across 5 zones to
his corpse, he'd have to be grouped then ungrouped. I wish there was
some way to convince Verant to fix it the right way. i.e. Selo's
overrides SoW as it did, but when it wears off, SoW's speed is correctly
reset without the need to zone to fix it.

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