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Blind meditation was likely added in because in a lot of Diku MUDs you are "blind" while sleeping or meditating. If you're interested, these are from the Diku MUD that Brad McQuaid played on:
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< P: std (AFK) > WAKE REST SIT STAND KNEEL RECLINE ALERT As in the real world, your character will eventually get tired and run out of energy or get injured in the line of fire. When this occurs, you may wish to sit and rest or sleep for a quick bit. You recover more quickly when sleeping than when resting, and more quickly resting than standing. Persons who are magically put to sleep may be awakened with the "wake" command. The new position/status system commands are as follows: Command Does stand stand up and become alert sit sit down kneel go to your knees recline lie down rest relax, and sit down if you're standing alert pay attention, doesn't change position sleep go to sleep, doesn't change position wake wake up, doesn't change position. At some point your character may end up standing and resting. If you are standing and unable to do much, try "alert". See also: SLEEP Code:
< P: std (AFK) > MEDITATE Applied/Reflexive skill. Syntax: Sit or rest, then meditate Aggressive: No Class/Level: Enchanter/Invoker/Necromancer/Elementalist/Shaman/Cleric/Druid, Illusionist/Psionicist 1st "Meditate" allows the player to memorize/pray for spells with a chance of halving the time. A single proficiency check is made at the half way point for each spell. If successful, the spell will be memorized/ prayed for at that time. If unsuccessful, the spell will take the normal time before it is memorized/prayed. Meditation is automatic for casters while praying or memorizing spells. Psionicists and Yuan-ti can use the meditate skill to regenerate spent psp at a slightly faster rate. | ||
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We all know the game went to crap around Luclin. That's why were here. We are discussing a mechanic that was changed in Velious era. You know, the time when EQ was at it's best?
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Edit: My personal opinion is EQ didn't go to the trash can during Luclin but started with Kunark. The original game was the best, rounded and complete. They started tossing whatever after this but still kept some semblance which started fading faster with each expansion before finally being bent over the table with Luclin. It went from an RPG with a fairly deep background of influences before it to just another raiding game competing with other titles on the market. EQ lost its identity at this point. | |||
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Edit: The racial visions, part of the RPG setting, were later stripped out to give everyone decent night visions as an improvement. In madcows mind, "those RPG elements were so terrible they took them out. If they were not bad why didn't they leave them in?" .. because they started catering to people who didn't care or give a damn about any of that, They just wanted to raid and anything that didn't facilitate that end were rendered pointless. I personally think it was cool as a wood elf seeing things tinted reddish-orange glow at night and dark elves having things tinted violet and could see a long ways in the dark. Certainly added to their flavor. But you know, they eventually made player cities pointless for an all in one XP starter zone.. because why have player cities in your RPG?.. lol that's dumb | |||
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But when I frst linked those marble bags my thought was "Idk wtf these are but they just feel right to me." After seeing it in the other screens, its like the memories are coming back to me. That's why I keep harping on finding a tracking window in the transparent UI screen. I cant be confident about any of my memories from back then. ugh. Its wild what I cant remember. Do you ever binge really hard, accomplish so much, help so many friends, have so many laughs, drama's, high's low's, and then after the 3 or 4 day binge is over... you go back to work. And like remember zeeeeero of it. I bet there are some crazy adventures and fun ass nights that I had that I cant remember at all, and I bet while I was having them I was thinking "don't forget this its the greatest!" One of these days we're going to find out the brain processes our emotions playing this game the same way it processes DMT or something. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | |||
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I think its pretty well established that its the same as gambling addiction, man.
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