[CF List] wraight

[Steven Lembark]

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      Another alternative is to say that fb and w's don't need
     
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      "food" but "lifeforce". They basically live at zero fp
     
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      forever and consume mana to survive. This means that if
     
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      their SP goes to zero they begin to "starve". Their
     
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      "food" would be existing restore mana potions and magic
     
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      crystals (basically they'd store "food" by charging the
     
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      thing before going into battle).
     
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      At first, I thought that it would be a very good solution, but now I
     
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      think that it would be hard to make that work.  The regen rate for
     
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      "lifeforce" would be (mana rate - food rate), but if the result is
     
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      negative then the player would have a hard time to get enough mana to
     
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      prepare for a battle.
     
     
Except at very low levels, mana regen is higher than food
use. Adjusting the initial rates for fb's and w's would
allow for reasonable rates. A char w/ 25+ POW (wait for
an 18 stat on the char regen and put it on POW) would
normally regen at a fairly high rate. Note also that
praying accelerates mana regen; which would also help.

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