[MUD-Dev] Striving for originality

[shren]

On 17 Jun 2002, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 12:05, Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com wrote:
 
>> I like that, although how did you deal with mage stacking? I'm
>> making some assumptions here that the big spells would do a lot
>> of dmg, but then with multiple mages in the same encounter, if
>> they'd all saved up for the big spell, they'd almost negate the
>> value of the melee?
  
>> Every week you'd see troupes of mages wondering around killing
>> the big mobs!
 
> There are a few ways I can see to combat this:

>   1. Don't let the mages gain that much power.
>   2. Make some of the big mobs more resistant to magic
>   3. Fireshield.
>   4. Chance of catastrophic failure.
>   5. Magic capacity of the localized area.
>   6. Vulnerability while casting.

All of these things sound like overkill.  *All* I saw back when I
logged on to UO was troupes of mages wandering around killing big
mobs!  That's what people did.  The average skeleton had a longer
lifespan than the average demon lord because the skeleton wasn't on
anybody's hit list.  If you give the mage the "kill something once a
week" spell, let it kill something once a week.  Giving people that
kind of power is going to require a little bit of thought, but that
"little bit" doesn't mean "neuter it by the roots".

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