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Originally Posted by Lagaidh
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I can get the pro arguments fully, and even agree with them on some level. For instance, the notion that regenerating magical energy might take a trance-like concentration from the individual, and as such, he or she ISN'T aware of the immediate surroundings. In my perfect world, this would be handled in some other way visually. Think warped graphics kind of like being drunk, but the warp flows from your avatar in 3rd person view. Meh I dunno. Blahdee blah!
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I agree with this idea. Meditate was bad as a gameplay mechanic, yet on some level it had some positive side effects. Downtime sucks, yet that downtime is largely why I'm still playing this game as opposed to newer alternatives--I can do other stuff, even go AFK, while my character meditates. Three hours online, here, isn't really three hours when over half of it is AFK. I can't really do that effectively in most newer games because they require almost 100% attention.
Whatever the pros or cons of meditate as a mechanic, book-in-the-face was a bad idea. It would have been better if the book was rendered as though you were holding it in your lap, while still able to see over the top.
Danth