[CF List] wraight

[Kimmo Hoikka]

Steven Lembark wrote:

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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.
     
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      Except at very low levels, mana regen is higher than food
     
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      use. Adjusting the initial rates for fb's and w's would
     
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      allow for reasonable rates. A char w/ 25+ POW (wait for
     
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      an 18 stat on the char regen and put it on POW) would
     
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      normally regen at a fairly high rate. Note also that
     
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      praying accelerates mana regen; which would also help.
     
     
mana regen is never too fast (at low levels especially), if mana is 
consumed for food, what is then used for casting??. this would just make 
special races way too weak, even now low level characters suffer for low 
sp regeneration, most of the time is spent just waiting so what would it 
become then, more fighter oriented playing less wizards and sorcerors, 
not the way to go. the idea of feeding from lifeforce of others, from 
draining or from fire or cold sounds more interesting.

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