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Originally Posted by Wurl
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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.
"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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/\ yea, that stuff. Which other people just called 'Downtime' and it was rejected later. Other games didn't have these influences and were fast paced.. "Look I click this melee attack and it sets up a special then a super special attack" and they never sat down or had reason to. RPG can be defined in different ways, those games had the marketing brand to benefit. Turns out, who really cares about RPG elements in a MMORPG.. the RPG just got in the way.
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