Posted by CFer on July 2, 2000 at 20:01:09:
In Reply to: Odd happening posted by A conjurer on July 2, 2000 at 16:21:45:
Somethings up with locate object. Its pretty freakin gay if you ask me...looks like they are making it more realistic. In my opinion, there are alot of things that I would like to see before this(as if this is necessary), but thats my opinion. I get a feeling they're making it work like this... If an items is higher level, its takes more to locate. If there are more of them, it again has an affect on the spell. Also, I get the feeling that int has something to do with it too, as a storm giant I think I lost over 200 on a few locates. I was getting pretty annoyed by it, aside from the big drain on mana, it left me lagged for a few ticks, on top of this, I was getting no message, no located objects, just mana loss. Even when I lost concentration I would still watch my mana go down and I would lag. I also noticed that if I located random stuff over and over each successive locate would get harder and harder.(Not sure about this part by any means) I wouldnt really care about any change as long as the help file was updated to accurately reflect what is going on. Now though, we're are all going to have to deal with a bunch of people whigging out OOC and posting messages like this. My advice, don't worry about. Locate is a spell of convenience and is hardly necessary at all.