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simon appleton

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Jul 9, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/9/98
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I have been told of the second druid promotion: I have to be
somewhere at midnight during a full moon. How do I know when it is a
full moon? Can you find out using the "T" hotkey? (I would investigate
myself but my game and e-mail are in different locations).

Vestlin

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Jul 9, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/9/98
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One of the books on the right of the main screen is labeled "Calendar".
Click on it and the resulting screen will give you the phase of the moon.

>moon. How do I know when it is a
>full moon?

Jim

confused

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Jul 9, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/9/98
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ke...@owl.co.uk (Ken Nicolson) conjured up this insight:

>simon appleton <simon.a...@economics.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:

>Yes - it's the bottom line, IIRC, of the Time page, where it tells you


>the phase of the moon.

It's not exactly that subtle. The entire thing is dominated by a big
picture of the moon in it's current phase.

confused


Warren A. Smith Jr.

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Jul 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/10/98
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No, but somehow it's easy to miss. I was pretty floored when I got
that quest. I waited until night and looked up in the sky and ... NO
MOON?!? Needless to say, I was just a little agitated ... until I
discovered that the phase is displayed on the time page. I had to
apologize for all the nasty things I had thought about the designers
of the game prior to finding this. :)
--
Live Long & Prosper!

Warren A. Smith Jr.
Pearl River, NY

Reder

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Jul 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/10/98
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simon appleton asks:>I have been told of the second druid promotion: I have to

be
>somewhere at midnight during a full moon. How do I know when it is a
>full moon? Can you find out using the "T" hotkey? (I would investigate
>myself but my game and e-mail are in different locations).

Yes, the T key works. Note that on Enroth the full moon lasts several days, so
don't panic about hanging out right on the doorstep of the Temple of the Moon
til then. It would be useful to locate it in advance, though, if you haven't
already.

GEORGE ARUGAY MONTEMAYOR

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Jul 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/10/98
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Warren A. Smith Jr. (WSmi...@mindspring.com) wrote:
: No, but somehow it's easy to miss. I was pretty floored when I got

: that quest. I waited until night and looked up in the sky and ... NO
: MOON?!? Needless to say, I was just a little agitated ... until I
: discovered that the phase is displayed on the time page. I had to
: apologize for all the nasty things I had thought about the designers
: of the game prior to finding this. :)

You just came up with a great suggestion for the NWC team. Would it be
possible for MM7 to have a moon (and the sun with lens-flare effects)
outside? Oh, and since it is not all that hard to pass several game
years, a solar/lunar eclipse would be nice. Imagine fighting outside in
the afternoon when all of a sudden a solar eclipse passes by. :)

George

Chris D

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Jul 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/12/98
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simon appleton <simon.a...@economics.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:

>I have been told of the second druid promotion: I have to be
>somewhere at midnight during a full moon. How do I know when it is a
>full moon? Can you find out using the "T" hotkey? (I would investigate
>myself but my game and e-mail are in different locations).

Click on the right-most Calendar book. But you needn't bother knowing when the
full moon is anyway. Minor spoiler below tells why:


It doesn't matter what phase of the moon it is, you can get that Arch Druid
promotion right after midnight on any night. I got my promotion on the 2nd of
the month, which was a quarter moon.


chris

Nai-Chi Lee

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Jul 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/12/98
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In article <35a8811c...@news.mindspring.com>,

Chris D <cdu...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>It doesn't matter what phase of the moon it is, you can get that Arch Druid
>promotion right after midnight on any night. I got my promotion on the 2nd of
>the month, which was a quarter moon.

I once got my promotion even though the calendar says three-quarter moon.
However, it could be that you just need to be plus or minus a few days from
a full moon. Anyone cares to try this when the calendar says half-moon?
--
Nai-Chi

Chris D

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Jul 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/13/98
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n...@philabs.research.philips.com (Nai-Chi Lee) wrote:

Mine was only one quarter moon, very close to a new moon. That's almost as far
as you can get from a full moon.

chris

Trebor A. Rude

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Jul 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/15/98
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On 10 Jul 1998 19:01:08 GMT, gmontem@apollo (GEORGE ARUGAY MONTEMAYOR)
wrote:

Hmm, so would you be able to use Sunray, Moon Ray, or both? :)

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simon appleton

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Jul 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/20/98
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GEORGE ARUGAY MONTEMAYOR wrote:
>
> Warren A. Smith Jr. (WSmi...@mindspring.com) wrote:
> : No, but somehow it's easy to miss. I was pretty floored when I got
> : that quest. I waited until night and looked up in the sky and ... NO
> : MOON?!? Needless to say, I was just a little agitated ... until I
> : discovered that the phase is displayed on the time page. I had to
> : apologize for all the nasty things I had thought about the designers
> : of the game prior to finding this. :)
>
> You just came up with a great suggestion for the NWC team. Would it be
> possible for MM7 to have a moon (and the sun with lens-flare effects)
> outside? Oh, and since it is not all that hard to pass several game
> years, a solar/lunar eclipse would be nice. Imagine fighting outside in
> the afternoon when all of a sudden a solar eclipse passes by. :)
>
> George

I noticed a cool effect last last night: it was dusk and I was standing
under a house. All of a sudden, it was light. Then I looked around
and everywhere else had gone dark. I may be imagining it, but it was
like darkness fell but the house switched its lights on!

Simon

Warren A. Smith Jr.

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Jul 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/20/98
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:38:17 +0100, simon appleton
<simon.a...@economics.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:

>I noticed a cool effect last last night: it was dusk and I was standing
>under a house. All of a sudden, it was light. Then I looked around
>and everywhere else had gone dark. I may be imagining it, but it was
>like darkness fell but the house switched its lights on!

Did you have a light spell running by any chance? I've noticed that
the light spell does nothing if it is dusk/dawn, but as soon as night
hits, the spell lights up the area around you. Even though the spell
description says it doesn't work outdoors, it definitely helps me see,
though the light radius is pretty small.

John Mueller

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Jul 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/21/98
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Warren,

I had noticed the same thing about the light spell--it tends to make thing
in the general area lighter at night. Since I hadn't seen any other
messages saying that the light spell works this way, I figured I must be
seeing things. It's good to know that someone else noticed that the light
spell appears to work at least a little outside.

John Mueller

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John Mueller

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John Mueller

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Andrew Klossner

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Jul 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/24/98
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> I've noticed that the light spell does nothing if it is dusk/dawn,
> but as soon as night hits, the spell lights up the area around you.

I see this effect even with no light spell. As soon as the sky goes
black, my immediate area is illuminated if I'm outdoors. This has
happened since my newborn characters first crawled into NS, so it's
not due to my residual magic.

-=- Andrew Klossner (and...@teleport.com)

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