Hey guys -

I made some serious changes to Moongate last night:

- Requires about 150 skill to cast. The old requirement was 25th circle, and 6 ranks of PM per circle isn't very outlandish for a moon mage, so that's about the same as it was.
- Scales upwards of 1100 ranks. This is for the most epic of moongates (Actually we don't have locations far enough apart, aside from the islands, to cast this at).
- Mainland-Island is still very hard.
- Island-Island is still harder as well.
- Pulse times have been increased to 10 seconds. Might increase it further, not sure, but moongate is supposed to be a skill that taxes the mage significantly. You ARE ripping a hole through spacetime or whatever.
- Mana range has been increased to 5-50. This means that in addition to having high skill, a very long-range gate is going to be remarkably hard to hold open very long. To do it well, you'll need feats, cambrinth, and potentially slaves to help you keep camb charged up.


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"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true." -E.A.P.

<<- Island-Island is still harder as well.>>

I'm curious, how hard is it from say, shard in ilithi to Fang Cove?


<<The real thing DR needs is to get out there to the kids who actually read books.>>

<<- Requires about 150 skill to cast

Do we know which skill fuels moongate castability? I assume since it's a utility spell, this 150 ranks of skill are utility ranks, or is there something else involved that I missed.

<<THanks for making it harder than it was previously...once moons rise...i will test it...why can't i make my own moons yet?

Because your name isn't Vegeta. :(

Nikpack

I hate PAFO. I propose PAFO be banished from 3.0 forever. :-)


<<The real thing DR needs is to get out there to the kids who actually read books.>>

>>Do we know which skill fuels moongate castability?

>Utility


Well, that would explain it... -_-;
I only got 445 of that. Didn't you guys mention something about how we could switch two skills to make one more than the other?

>you're crossing bodies of water, is your athletics skill up to the requirement?

I'm quite sure we don't use that sort of skill in our spacetime ripping warps.

Scraaaatch. I'm so sleepy, guys... I was in the wrong area and wasn't in Lang. I'll go kick myself in the butt now.

An additional update was made to Moongate, reenabling Rogue gates.

Rejoice.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

>>Rogue gates.

You should have the rogue gates flex creatures with the same powers as the Spirit Reapers, and have them flex to the highest person in the room :3

~ Leilond
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>>(or if that gets factored into the discern)

It does

>>Yea its my Arcana. I just find it amusing that you need such a high skill level to get accurate info. 540 in it and I still get weird numbers.

It's harder with harder spells, and if your arcana is lower than your spell skill, that indicates that your knowledge of how to manipulate mana in utilitarian ways (or whatever) exceeds your knowledge of the inner mechanisms of magic, which basically means sometimes you fly by the seat of your pants when you cast.

figuring out your personal cap can also be done by trial and error, at the risk of harming yourself. An even trade, IMO.

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"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true." -E.A.P.

Does Discern take into account the Utility feat?

With 687 Arcana and 536 Utility I get a consistent 16-18 mana on DISCERN. My personal cap is 28.

Hm, sounds like Discern is giving you the wrong numbers. I'll take a look, with that much Utility your personal cap sounds correctish, if you also have the feat.

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"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true." -E.A.P.