Yes, the adjusted range formula made gating easier overall.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Here it is:

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http://forums.play.net/forums/DragonRealms/The%20Moon%20Mages/Responses%20to%20GM%60Official%20Announcements/view/1605

Okay - I lied. I hadn't chased down the ramifications of this change quite as far as I thought I had, and as a result you wouldn't have been able to teleport the max distance (Which I think Boar Clan --> Aesry represents) with any spell since they all use the core formula Moongate uses (Teleport, for example, just scales more rapidly because it's far easier to shove more mana in.)

Since I'm not a fan of this I've redone the distance calculation that underlies all teleportation spells which should, at max mana, allow travel from any two points in the game (Assuming they pass all other teleportation checks).

Since the change is kind of mathy let me just give you a graph with the equations scrubbed. Blue is old, red is new, X is distance, Y is difficulty (Which roughly means mana).

http://tinypic.com/r/23r0g14/9

I also removed the randomness (not shown on that graph) since I figure people are far more precise in their teleports these days and it let me cut the formula a lot closer at max mana.

Also, also, there are some minimum ranges on each spell that you can always reach that are not reflected on that graph either.

THIS IS ON TEST ONLY. Please try it out before we go live with this, it's always possible I caused something to go horribly wrong.

-Raesh

<<Out of curiosity, does transmogrify ever (with enough skill) do a 1:1 ratio transfer from one pool to another?

The best I've seen reported is a ~25% conversion (~75% lost) to the new pool without the spell and a ~60% conversion (~40% lost) with it. This was with 737 unbuffed astrology and a capped BC.
http://forums.play.net/forums/DragonRealms/The%20Moon%20Mages/Responses%20to%20GM%60Official%20Announcements/view/1590

Without the spell I don't think it would, but I could see it happening with the spell.

Went and tested this too for myself, with astro at 1053, and a 100 mana cast of BC i got a conversion rate of 70% from full pool of defense into completely empty survival. do not have AUS to test with as well.

On another note, does align transmogrify teach anything? i forgot to check before and after use.

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You're close to capping it at a 70% conversion rate. I don't feel comfortable going much higher.

-Raesh

"It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true." ― The Slow Regard of Silent Things