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<p>Created page with &quot;```Originally Posted : Thu Nov 11 03:09:45 2021 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Burlok &lt;br&gt;Title : Sands and Manticores &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;The deserts of Tsunami...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>```Originally Posted : Thu Nov 11 03:09:45 2021 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Burlok &lt;br&gt;Title : Sands and Manticores &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;The deserts of Tsunami were protesting outside the wizard workrooms this &lt;br&gt;afternoon. They stated &quot;enough is enough&quot; and were on-strike until &lt;br&gt;concessions could be made about their workload. Following several hours of &lt;br&gt;discussion I am pleased to report that weve reached an agreement that will &lt;br&gt;allow the deserts of Tsunami to continue to support the mummies and &lt;br&gt;manticores.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;THE BAD (the reductions)&lt;br&gt;NONE. Well, maybe none. None of this was intended as a reduction.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;THE ISNT THAT SPECIAL (code nuance)&lt;br&gt;1) Sands was old-code. I reworke it to meet the new tools available. This &lt;br&gt;is hopefully invisible to players.&lt;br&gt;2) Sands had a lot of custom modifications as various people felt it &lt;br&gt;should function different ways. These resulted in one core bug. The lower &lt;br&gt;level you were the faster your sands would increase. At level 5 you could &lt;br&gt;hit very high-level of sands faster than a hero. This was fixed. I dont &lt;br&gt;consider it a reduction though. Its a correction. Im surprised no one &lt;br&gt;noted it.&lt;br&gt;3) To the player, know this: Sands has a cap based upon the &lt;br&gt;sands-skill-level of the last person to cast in the room. Most &lt;br&gt;importantly: A) Although there are terrain modifications in a neutral &lt;br&gt;setting a sands-caster will hit their cap in ONE CAST. Sands generates &lt;br&gt;over THREE ROUNDS. So even if in unfavorable terrain at a sufficently high &lt;br&gt;level TWO casts should be more than sufficient.&lt;br&gt;4) Sands decreases based upon who last cast it and whether or not theyre &lt;br&gt;in the room. If you stay in the room sands ecreases relatively slower &lt;br&gt;(over 4 or 5 minutes). If you leave the room its over 2 or less. Makes &lt;br&gt;sense, right?&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;MANTICORES AND MUMMIES&lt;br&gt;1) Mummies are a different post.&lt;br&gt;2) I reworked the manticore combat bonus based upon the caps. Discounting &lt;br&gt;the sands bug (which would have always given them the max boost, but sands &lt;br&gt;was optional for them) they no longer have a cap. The cap is scaled quite &lt;br&gt;a bit better. Hero manticores should still achieve the cap. HUGE hero &lt;br&gt;manticores or manticores in mummy sands (remember mummies have all kinds &lt;br&gt;of sand boosting foo) will get a larger bonus but its on the order of only &lt;br&gt;about 10 points.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Direct feedback to me. Prefer mudmail or discord.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Hope this helps cut down on the feedback I heard which was &quot;I hate casting &lt;br&gt;sands over and over each room&quot;.&lt;br&gt; ```&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div>

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