Wow! I'll check my numbers... Maybe iron/steel is far worse?

I don't get the idea of the op. Make everything easy, no quests to achieve things...  And then you have killed the game and produced a kindergarden copy of it.

My personal view...

Just to add another point of view: If you start lowering met value, most mages (low level) will not be able to afford reasonable training. This already is a problem, especially in the beginning of a career.

I like the moving npc's. It always was pretty disturbing for me to find them at 5 in the morning and at 11 pm, rooted to their place. It is not convenient, but by far more logic _and_ nice the way it is now.

From combining the Magic and Armor thread with my own thoughts on the topic, I would like to propose simple rules for avoiding the superman (-woman, -kra) syndrome. In the present state, one can be (in a rl terminology) world boxing champion, chess grandmaster, and Nobel laureate in Physics medicine and chemistry. This is not consistent with an ic character development.

A simple way would be to counteract this by just capping the sum of all stat ranks by (just to give a number) 60% of the maximum value (would be 1440, instead of 2400). That way you have to consider carefully, which way you are going.

A useful addition would be to be able to undo an increase in rank, when you find you have gone a wrong way or for further development of currently already maxed out characters (pls, don't bash me for that  ).

This cap would only involve restrictions at very high stats. One could also think of a more complicated scheme, where a certain profile has to be maintained during the whole character development. For example, the third highest stat rank has to be a certain percentage lower than the highest, the fifth again lower by the same step. By making this step height low or zero at very low ranks, and increasing for higher ranks, a careful character development can be enforced (e.g a linear increase from zero to 10% maximum for the highest ranks). Notice the packages of two, or else no exchange of priorities would be possible....

All this is subject to the effect of stats in the game mechanics, which I have not a real feeling for, being a rather inexperienced player. So, please consider these ideas in the light of my experience. 

If you see things from an ic perspective, the whole story is less mage friendly. Typically, a mage has no reasonable strength and can be one- or two-hit by almost all stronger mobs.

The alternative would be to run around in heavy armor - ohno, too weak. And, excessively ooc. So, I'm casting and running like hell, hoping I don't trip over a plant or stone. And, the famous sleep is not available, because my character does not like carrying around severed hands...

Just my two tria to show the other side of the argument...



PS. Pakerl is a rather low-grade Dermorian around 150 hours in game(?), lots of quests, str 70, end 80, int 106, will 110, (max red way 20, crystal 18)

 

Attempting to (Repair), the following message pops up:

> Using mirror http://updater.sajut.de/update/ for updaterinfo.xml
> XML Parsing error in file '/this/updaterinfo.xml': Error reading end tag. (in: line 59:63; html -> body -> div -> div -> br -> br > -> br -> br -> br -> br -> br -> br -> br -> br -> br -> table -> tr -> td -> img).
> Unable to get root node!
> Segmentation fault

After changing away from world preload the frequent drops were almost back to zero again, so for me it is not a big problem. But still, something seems to be wrong. Is the xml broken?

Thanks, and good luck
Pak.