Re: Disease spells! What? "Ebola" shouldn't be enabled.

[Kimmo Hoikka <Kimmo.Hoikka@Digia.com>]

Peter Mardahl wrote:

> I wrote the disease code, and a previous poster was absolutely
> correct:
>
> EBOLA AND SOME OF THE OTHER DISEASE SPELLS ARE RIDICULOUSLY POWERFUL
> AND SHOULD NOT BE ENABLED.

> Except for testing by developers.

heh. this is really fun when you think about all those chemical & biological
weapons there exists in real-world in "safe" places and which are "not ment to
be used" in any situation.... except in tests and in extreme situations or
so.... ;)
also remember all the terrifying movies where some disease like this gets free
( 12 monkeys )...

> When I originally did the code, I wrote several disease spells of
> varying power.  I left the really deadly ones inaccessible and
> unusable to players (unless they cheat).
>
> I NEVER intended EBOLA or the other really contageous ones to be
> used without their power being carefully tuned.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, these spells are inaccessible
> to players in the current version of the server:  were you
> using that?
>
> Anyway, my intention was to tune these spells, make them
> reasonable, and give them to Priests of religions which
> had weaker attributes and would have difficulty advancing
> without an attack spell or two.

> I was going to wait for input on which religions needed balancing
> from people who actually play the game instead of just hacking on
> it.  No one bothered to send me comments like :
>
> "Gaean priests really suck rocks.  Can't advance them past level 5
> because they've got no way to gain exp.  They could use a
> moderately powerful attack spell."
> Then they would get a moderately powerful disease-causing spell....
> I would modify one of Ebola, Anthrax,
> That was the idea anyway.
> PeterM

I suggest we try to fix that exp thing and move them to much higher levels. if
they are levels 40-70 it should make them
better. then the high level experienced players would still have something to
hunt for... then we also need similar spells for wizards also to make the life
cycle of a character much longer. Currently wen you get a priest of a wiz to
level 20 you have no goals in game anymore.

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