Make all new characters start with 50/100/150 more mv points. Reduce mv level gains with 1/2/3 points per level... Retroapply for current chars.

I spent a few days mulling it over in my head, and could only come up with minor objections.

1. It seems to cater to a play style that empowers veteran players: run from area to area gathering the perfect mix of low-level equipment vice the slower, more methodical method of exploration that new players unfamiliar with an area (or areas) would use.

2. It slightly nerfs movement draining strategies at the low to mid levels - which is when (IMHO) they're the most useful.

Like I said, minor. And I'll caveat the above with saying that, as far as I know, we have never tweaked the starting movement values, so they're the same now as they were when New Thalos was ten steps from Galadon.

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>2. It slightly nerfs movement draining strategies at the low
>to mid levels - which is when (IMHO) they're the most useful.
>

It also slightly nerfs classes with movement advantage skills/communes/songs. Pathfinding, refresh and the travelers song all would be at least slightly less useful. It is only a slight downgrade as they will still have an overall advantage but still a downgrade.

In my opinion though these abilities are most useful at low levels when other classes have low moves and can be outrun or overrun.

important. And that's movement not changing, despite Thera being probably ten times bigger than it was when the original numbers were calculated. I'd be all for an added 50 movement or so from creation (if that's a fair enough number, I don't really know), to counter the size changes, and the diversity changes as far as terrain goes.

Actually, Cador and I revisited movement back in, oh, 98 or 99 or so.

Since then, we've seen the option to train moves come in, gear that adds to movement regeneration introduced, some new movement-friendly abilities like Relaxation, as well as the gain of movement points from exploration.

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Make mv gains steady through the levels. A level 1 recovers as much mv as a level 51. Why would this be good? There would be much less gayness associated with being level 1. The outcry will ofcourse be, but that would kill this and that and what more! I think it wouldn't have a huge impact on game balance. Sure, people might be chilling with a bit more mv at any given time, but mostly the way you get screwed is when your mv regen is killed by plague or bleeding, or you get entangled by a ranger, in which you likely wont run far anyways.