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Originally Posted by loramin
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Spellbook staring will be back on Green (up until the point in the timeline when it was removed; we just don't see it on Blue because Blue past that point already). And as for night blindness, I don't know about anyone else, but my gamma slider stopped working for me months ago. I assumed it was a staff night blindness fix, but maybe I just got a bug that happens to enforce classic night blindness as a side effect?
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You're incorrect here. Spellbook staring was never removed during the era P99 represents. Casters had to look at the spellbook to meditate until level 35. We don't have it on P99 solely because of client limitations. One developer suggested implementing a blind effect when a player meditates, but that's non-classic itself since it'd block both the spellbook and the chat window, which spellbook meditating certainly did not.
Night blindness is not strictly related to the gamma slider. The Titanium client has a built-in feature that brightens outdoor zones at night. This is immediately apparent inside dark indoor zones such as parts of Befallen where the effect is not present--they're pitch black without a lightsource, as expected. Other classic night-vision effects such as infravision and ultravision do not have their classic appearance, either. Look up old screenshots and you'll see what I mean, ultravision tinted the world purplish-blue and infravision caused mobs to look distinctly reddish.
Basically both of the above issues are client-related, and not non-classic by choice. The same applies to some other longstanding issues, like the nonfunctional stamina bar (they've tried and failed to get that working several times over the years, it simply won't work on this client) and a few other problems. Some other features are left non-classic by choice for various reasons, like item linking, third-person mousewheel scrolling, and the ability to keep multiple chat windows open. All of those have been reported as fixable at some point or another but remain in-place because the devs like having those things. Even they have their limits when it comes to pure classic.
As an aside, human characters still don't start with a candle.
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