Woodland Stride vs. Undergrowth

[Micteu]

Perhaps in some occasion rather thick areas of the wilderness, people could be slowed down like they are through water, unless they have Woodland Stride?

[kalbaern]

Dec 31, 2009 23:54:40 GMT -5 Micteu said:

Perhaps in some occasion rather thick areas of the wilderness, people could be slowed down like they are through water, unless they have Woodland Stride?

When I've time I'll look at adding Woodland Stride as an "immunity" to most of the stream and brush effects we use here.

**This gets added to the bottom of "The List" for now.

[Snubletraad]

I like this idea. Makes it even more worthwhile to play a druid.

[Micteu]

Would it make it any less of a resource hog if certain entire areas were marked as being brush-heavy, slowing down (maybe just a tiny amount) anyone without Woodland Stride?

[hyurg]

I believe that woodland stride has been brought up before for druids and rangers. As a druid player, I would love to see this work so that I can run through bushes escaping my enemies. However, an entire hex with slow down effect sounds too annoying to me if I was playing a character that wasn't a druid, ranger, or someone who could cast freedom of movement. I would love to see it work on certain areas in a hex like spots covered in berry bushes, rivers, and etc. but I think Kal said it was at the bottom of the list.

[kalbaern]

Mar 31, 2010 21:49:31 GMT -5 hyurg said:

I believe that woodland stride has been brought up before for druids and rangers. As a druid player, I would love to see this work so that I can run through bushes escaping my enemies. However, an entire hex with slow down effect sounds too annoying to me if I was playing a character that wasn't a druid, ranger, or someone who could cast freedom of movement. I would love to see it work on certain areas in a hex like spots covered in berry bushes, rivers, and etc. but I think Kal said it was at the bottom of the list.

Yeah .. the woodland stride will get done at some point here. It's the various triggers that slow you here (bushes, streams, etc ...) that I am looking at first though. I think I know why they misfire at times (though its been reported alot less lately) and if I have found out why, it'll mean I have to modify some present maps.

[hyurg]

When you say misfire do you mean the slow down effect hits when on ordinary ground or being able to cross bushes and rivers with no slow down?

[Micteu]

There were a few times when I and some other players were walking on the road north of Orlbar and suddenly slowed down by the T in the road. I haven't noticed it in the last months.

As for this:

Mar 31, 2010 20:29:00 GMT -5 Micteu said:

Would it make it any less of a resource hog if certain entire areas were marked as being brush-heavy, slowing down (maybe just a tiny amount) anyone without Woodland Stride?

It's more of a curiosity question of whether making entire areas slow-down would be less resource-intensive than having triggers through certain parts of those areas.