Why would the trip from Qeynos to Freeport take 45 minutes? With selo's you
can easily make it in 20.

Naeeldar

-----Original Message-----
From: Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) <kblair@...>
To: eqbards@onelist.com <eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 11:07 AM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] RE: Hey this sounded interesting.. *Time to KABOING
??*

>From: "Blair, Keith (Keith Blair)" <kblair@...>
>
>> I think the melee/hybrid/caster thread needs to
>> be kaboinged.. now. And the bind thread should IMO
>> go the same way, but first I would like to
>
>If you have an opinion on it, which you do - then it doesn't need to be
>"kabonged" after you get your opinion noted. Everyone should be free to
>speak on the issue.
>
>> If there wasent a penalty like this the game would
>> turn into something very boring.
>
>And boy oh boy it's such exciting fun running back to
>your corpse. Yay!
>
>> With selo's we are pretty well off for travelling and
>> giving bards bind will seriusly overpower unless it was
>> made useless by giving it penalties.
>
>Selo's gives us a good way of GETTING somewhere. It
>doesn't even come close to comparing to gate.
>
>I'd be interested in seeing the results of a caster
>and a bard racing from Freeport to Qeynos and back.
>I can see it now. Caster pays 1pp for SOW and nearly
>keeps up with bard. Bard arrives in Qeynos let's
>be generous and say 10 minutes before wizard does.
>Bard heads back and gleefully waves at wizard still
>on his way to Qeynos. Wizard gets to Qeynos. Wizard
>gates back to Freeport and laughs it up for 45 minutes
>while the bard is still running.
>
>Or better yet, high level bard & high level wizard in
>the same race. Bard takes off a runnin'.. Wizard does
>his fancy teleport to the Karana's. Runs rest of way
>to Qeynos. Gates back to Freeport. Bard arrives in West
>Commons on his way to Qeynos.
>
>Yeah, Selo's makes up for all of that.
>
>>