Getting up to level 6 with the gnome priest gave a bit of time to review. The first few levels were very hard, but, as playing progressed, it did strike me that some of that perception could be attributable to having played so much on servers where the physical combat was so effective that one expected to do that on the new server. It became a little more easy to see that maybe tweaking physical combat first might be a decent way to start changing expectations about how fast game play should be... so there is likely merit in playing around with things so long as people are testing it and giving feedback on real experiences with a variety of characters... It is a fine line though. There are so many subjective areas that come into play. This character had high stats and so a reasonable amount of grace. With a mid-range character I think there is still a chance for being quite frustrated.
In the end though, I do believe playing a mana-based magic user would be extremely dangerous / tedious. It seems very hard to think that an adjustment will not be needed there immediately even if grace based magic is left alone. Anyway, since I've spoken about balancing everything, figured it would be good to show that I see some merit to experimenting on a smaller scale also. It was a fun evening... Thanks for putting that server up. Kevin _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
