I can't say I love it either. You, Mek, have a good perspective and bring up good points on a lot of topics. But often your perspectives are from that of a veteran player (which makes sense, of course).

This is completely fair to say. But, I can also say that in this case I have always vehemently despised the movement system at low ranks. And that has nothing to do with it being a factor in getting PK'd at those levels. It's purely to do with the annoyance of sleeping all the time.

The idea about starting with 500mv's instead of 100 is brilliant, honestly. But I'd further add that MV regen be based on a character's max MV (if it does not already) rather than a fixed scale like HP or MANA, but with a cut-off at the low end so that people who are for some reason MV-nuked don't have to sleep for an hour to recover (woe is the Rager). Why? Well, here is an example:

Player A has 1200 max MV.

Player B has 600 max MV.

I'd want their regen rate to be based on a percentile rather than an actual fixed number because it should reflect the fact that Player A is seasoned by travel and is twice as comfortable with the rigors of travel and subsequent recovery. The result would be that Player A would gain, what, 200 mv's a tick while sleeping, and Player B would gain 100mv's. Both are proportionally the same, but the obvious advantage goes to the seasoned vet.

And also, I wouldn't fret too much over mv-drain tactics becoming impotent because THOSE abilities almost all cut MV in half each time they land (with one exception that comes to mind). Since it isn't draining a fixed number amount, it's going to whittle Player A and Player B down about the same.

Example using energy drain in a fight:

Player A
1200
1> 600
2> 300
3> 150
4> 75
5> 37

Player B
600
1> 300
2> 150
3> 75
4> 37

The point there is that for all of Player A's MV advantage over Player B, it really only affords him one extra hit from a MV-halving ability in reality. Sure, if combat breaks after 2 hits, Player A is in better shape, but eh...doesn't seem too substantial. 300mv's in FoN might as well be 150mv's for all the distance you will get on it.


That was long, probably redundant, and a bit jumbled, but I hope you see what I am driving at.