I guess I play on a 28.8 as a matter of fact and it takes me a mere minute
to zone with a average of 268 ping.
Naeeldar
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimes, Dean W. <
Dean_Kimes@...>
To: '
eqbards@onelist.com' <
eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] RE: Hey this sounded interesting.. *Time to KABOING
??*
>From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
>Maybe with DSL. It takes me 2-3 minutes just to zone and I have a 56k
modem
>due to having a nearly 500 ping, which Brad recently said was within the
>average range (200-500). 9 zones takes 18-27 minutes just for zoning. My
>neighbor who plays on a 33.6 modem takes 4 minutes to zon on average. Now
>that's painful.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Naeeldar [mailto:jackal@...]
>Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 2:02 PM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] RE: Hey this sounded interesting.. *Time to
>KABOING ??*
>
>
>From: "Naeeldar" <jackal@...>
>
>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.
>>
>>>
>
>>