Shattered Kingdoms

I would like combat speed reduced (both warriors and casters included) but unfortunately, it would really screw up leveling. For example, I would like to each combat round to last twice as long to allow people to analyze the situation, cast spells, quaff potions, and so forth, but that would make me reach GM in 250 hours instead of 125. It would really screw up the slower levelers.

Why fix something if it isn't broken.

Dulrik already thought of this in the "nospam" feature that he implemented not too long ago. If you don't want to use a tool that Dulrik has given the entire playerbase to cut down on combat spam then that's your problem.

There's also scripting you can use to cut down on stuff like this.

If the fuss is about all that scrolling that happens then I don't know what to tell you. You've already got lots of options to deal with it.

What you're asking is that Dulrik completely rewrite the way combat works now. And I'm sure he has better things to do than revise the timing on all of the spells and skills in the game.

If SK's code is well built, this whole change shouldn't take more than 10 secs to do it. If the time cost for each skill/spell is static then it's quite some work.

Increase combat time a great deal and then it would take longer for everyone to level! You could force all players to spend atleast 100+ hours to reach GM....! Nice he?

My name is Ghent Atirum, and I support this message.

Not all of us know how to/can script with our clients. And while the nospam feature is a nice try at combating the constant scrolling, it in no way stops the huge lists that we have to sypher through to see what is really going on in the battle.

Perhaps instead of slowing everything down we could get an even shorter system that groups attacks together? Such as a merc. with four attacks seeing "You strike XXX four times" or "You hit XXX three times" and so on? I mean seeing a list of up to twelve lines, one line for each person in a possible six positions for each group, for normal melee is much better than each and every person having up to four lines for themselves.

I have no idea how hard/easy it would be to put in a feature that groups a single players attacks like this but it would probably be considered a better solution than slowing things down or gaging everything altogether.

The big thing I have when I run a priest is hitting info and trying to decipher the grid while it's rolling by. It gets even worse when there are pets involved, worse yet when there are duplicate pets. The grid isn't very neat when an ungreeted or pet is in formation, making it difficult to find the actual heavily injured party. So I'm left with being told who to heal and I hope that single person stays alive.

When I run a fighter, it's just spam. I do whatever random keystroking I do and that's it.

While it does not relate specifically to slowing down combat speed, I feel that players should have to manually assist in PvP encounters. Not only would it eliminate a couple existing bugs, it would require more coordination and tactics in group vs. group combat, with the added benefit of reducing spam.

Of course, auto assist would continue to work against NPCs/creatures; it would simply be disabled against players.

A fine idea, but triggers would have to be outlawed then.