At 01:06 PM 9/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>NPCs will never be given the ability to bind. This would kill "Binding for
>donations at gates", and the sale of binds. Verant does not want to do this
>(In fact in the Policies and Procedures manual for Guides it forbids Guides
>from binding players because it would 'damage the economy of players selling
>binds'). NPCs binding would lower caster's value to the non-casters in
>Norrath and eliminate a point of player interaction, Verant doesn't want that
>either. I've got a 14th level Enchanter and I bind for free all the time even
>though I could use the cash. Why? Because I like that feeling I get when
>some 10th level player say "Hey, thanks a lot!!" when I turn down his 2gp that
>he's trying to donate. NPCs binding would eliminate that four thousands of
>players.
But that part of the economy is already broken. I play a very poor gnome
enchanter (less than 1 plat most days because of trying to buy his 12th
level spells). I sit near the gate in Freeport /shouting things like "Poor
gnarled gnome binding for donations", while I meditate, which immediately
gets followed by someone else shouting "Binding for free!" So, there is no
economy as long as people give things away or donations are not given.
>Bind anywhere? Never happen. In fact, I think the casters are probably lucky
>to have gotten that ability, as it's potentially quite unbalancing when
>fighting uber-mobs like dragons.
Potentially??
I'm half-tempted to start posting false stories about how we "camp Vox with
our kamikaze casters" just to get Verant to see the illogic.
I'm all for game fun, too, which is why, when I have that incredibly rare
opportunity to join a group, I jump on it, even though I'm bound in Arena,
and the group is in Mistmoore. Let me tell you, that was one long walk.
So was I supposed to abandon the group for who knows how long (this is 4am
EST, btw), hoping to get a bind closer? If NPCs had bind, and I could go
there great. They still wouldn't be able to bind me at (for example) the
lesser faydark zone point (like PC casters can). The economy wouldn't be
broken. Heck - once the first person gave it away for free, it already
was. Do you guys remember when it was "Binding for 2pp" instead of
"donations"?? That's a case of the economy being broken by uncaring casters.
Talies