Message 1005 : A Newbies Guide to Arda - Part 3 (*Lost*) Written on Mon Jun 20 15:25:39 1994 A Newbies Guide to Arda - Part 3 - Frequently Asked Questions ------------------------------------------------------------- * What player characters can I kill? MUME discourages player killing, and there are very few player characters. If you do decide to player kill at a low level, you are doomed for the rest of your stay on Arda. A level 6 character has no chance against 30+ other characters online. Player killers are not respected and without help from other players, you will not advance. The only advantage I see to player killing is lots of equipment, but why destroy all of your morals to get a couple of swords and a bear skin? * How do travel points work? Ok, here is how I understand it. Every room in Arda, at a certain time has a certain number of travel points attached to it. For the mostpart, the number of travel points is zero. When you visit a room with >0 travel points marked on it, you gain the travel points yourself, and that amount of points are distributed (almost) randomly to another room on MUME. This explains why you get almost no travel points riding up and down the lane. Areas that aren't travelled much often contain a lot of travel points. * Ok, so where can i find them? Since high level characters often hunt for larger mobs, there are certain mobless areas that are ignored. Find these yourself and remember them. The shire i fairly safe for any adventurous newbie. Any body of water just before winter is also a good source of travel points. * Why do I keep getting diseased? All races except elves can get sick from sleeping during cold weather. Type 'weather local' to see what the weather is, and if it's cold, do not sleep. Elves may still sleep at any time. If you do get diseased, find your local cleric and ask for a heal (yes, 1 heal heals a disease contrary to the help file). * I'm blind! What do I do? Blindness only last for two hours, so if there isn't a cleric around, simply find a place with no mobs to sit and wait it out. It's not permanant. * I practice dodge, but by dodge % only goes up 2%!! why? Dodge is a bonus that does go up very, very slowly. You will find that equipment is the key to having a high dodge bonus. Light equipment, and items such as cloaks, iron rings, etc will lower you bonus. I believe that your dodge bonus can only increase 20% with 100% dodge practiced. * Why is this Eagle talking? If you are talking to a Mighty Horse, or a White Eagle, you are talking to another player - a high level metamorph. In order to gain experience they must be in this morphed form during battle. * Why do people buy wimpy dogs to follow them around? Dogs, cats, and falcons are very useful to take hunting with you when you go alone. They help you break the opponents parry bonus, making it easier for you to hit them. They die quite easily though. * I don't see an uizunghabugl spell or a nosalari spell anywhere! When a person of another class casts a spell, you see a translation if it i.e. uizingubughl (something like that)= invisibility After a while you'll get to know them. * How do I read mail? Go to the mailbox in Bree (mayors office) or in any other town, and look mailbox. Then 'read #' of message that you want to read. * There's a warg on the Old East Road! What do I do? Wait about 10 seconds. Someone will come along and slaughter it really fast. * I'm trapped in the old forest! Help! Try typing 'tell tom help'. There are some areas of the old forest that Tom does not respond to, so you'll have to start panicing. Head west - try to find an exit out of the forest that way. There are other exits, but all are quite hard to find. The best advice is to keep out of the old forest at all costs. * I am helplessly lost in the middle of nowhere - dying, no food, water. Well, you're in trouble. First type 'where' to see if anyone is near you, and if so, ask them for aid. If that fails, try asking your local cleric or mage to transfer you out of there. You will find that most are willing to help if the mana is available. If you KNOW that you will die (i.e. a thousand mobs between you and safety, and no one can transfer you), hide your valuable equipment (to be picked up later) and make a run for it.