Just add some penalty for each boon one takes, like -3% exprate for 100% boon!
That oughta fix some things on some boonraces.

Marvin's post about races/boons. "boons are a huge double advantage", id
consider boons only as bonus, you can play any race, anyguild without
boons.And yes, they _might_ have better stats, but does it really matter?.


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"have signifigantly better exp rate", yet another which doesnt matter a thing.
Gnollinoids & Koboldinoids arent so wanted in eqparties mostly, there are
exceptions.
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"And it appears that tps will never be seriously made available to
non-donaters", getting pile of tps from quests would be harsh, since most of
those are doable within hours, try someday.(Since you seem to have pile of
those avail still)
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In the end, why dont you try something else than solo, since it doesnt get you
anywhere if you rape same certain areas for expa(sure you get exp, but thats
it). Go explore, learn quests, learn eqmobs, lead em, knowing those is _huge_
advantage, and makes you better.

It is true that \"playable\" is a very subjective term. Certainly, a lot more
could be considered \"playable\" by me than to a minmaxer. And a lot more
would be considered playable by a RPGer or something than to me.

My point was not to whine about boons. It was just to point out why many
\'bad\' races are still in frequent use by current batmud players and why so
many are not. You can fix gnoll\'s problems fairly easily with boons and get a
great exp rate. You can\'t do so much about barsoomian. Or centaur. Or leech.
Yes, some people still play those races, but not many, because they know that
they could do better in other races. Their advantage, like gnoll\'s exp, or
dwarf\'s skillmax, or zombie\'s spells or whatever, just isn\'t worth their
problems.

My definition of \"playable\" doesn\'t matter. Who race X shows pretty well
what is playable and what isn\'t.

I certainly know how to do a lot more quests than I have done, but since the
easy quests aren\'t worth the time during a reinc when I would rather be
training skills, and the harder ones are almost without exception heavily
party oriented, I have not yet bothered. I really enjoy the (solo) quests on
here, like ackbar, and merchant toolbelt, etc (anybody know how to get that
damned safe open in kurya quest? ) That was the only reason I mentioned that
as an option for tps. I agree that it would not serve any purpose to get tps
for buying Machine, or Silver Battlesuit, or whatever quest from some party.
Something different would have to be done.

I couldn\'t agree more with this. In the long-ago past I did used to do eq
somewhat (not Baal or anything, but still good, usable stuff) and it is easily
the best part of the game. And I do try to figure out how to get to different
areas, which monster has which eq and in which area, etc. Being led to those
areas just isn\'t the same as figuring it out yourself.

However, my situation right now requires that I solo. Nobody wants a party
leader who does idle-exp while at work, or suddenly goes afk if the kids wake
up at night. And as a lowbie stuck in a solo-exp reinc, I wont be leading much
eq any time soon. I don\'t see this changing at all in the near future, no
matter what I would rather do.

So, please totally change the mud to suit my needs. I want solo quests for tps,
a better selection of races to suit my playing style (or just those tps...),
and soloable midbie eq with name bonuses. Ok? Thanks.

--M