Would it make sense to put extra trains into mana?
Halfling blade master...
No.
All of your trains should go to health. And as many practices as you can spare to turn into trains, and still have enough to practice cabal skills.
Unless you wanted to roleplay that you were the fastest Halfling Blademaster in all of Aabahran, and could travel long distances faster than anybody else - then you'd just slam all your trains into moves. 
Dey
I like Deys idea 
:D
But Bali is right, hit the HP because there are items that take VERY FEW slots that will raise your mana VERY easily. Where as HP slots arent as easy.
Unless you wanted to roleplay that you were the fastest Halfling Blademaster in all of Aabahran, and could travel long distances faster than anybody else - then you'd just slam all your trains into moves.
Dey
I can think of 2 items that add a total of 200 moves...
But if you roll a halfling blademaster, put your trains into HP and get +move EQ and claim you are the fastest in any single race, and then I do the same except I throw my trains into moves AND and get the +moves EQ, I'd have the advantage. 
Dey
Avian?
Edit: Why are we even having this discussion?
Paladin with heroism!?!
Edit: I have no idea. Somebody shoot us.
Dey
Erm, Maybe you mean the best trained, because well, you run faster with speed not farther
Assuming two people have an identical running speed, and run back and forth from Val Miran to Miruvhor, twice, using the exact same route, without mount or flight, who’s more likely to finish the fastest?
I meant faster in the sense that they could get places faster than other people (which they would, taking into account that once about 600 moves or so were used up, the person who didn't put trains into moves would have to rest whilst the other could keep running.
Dey
bha.. your logic is failed.
Who is faster, Maurice Greene or Haile Gebrselassie.
Maurice Green with have a higher speed ergo faster..
But Haile can run for longer, ergo more endurance. = more moves.
Aren’t there two ways of looking at it?
Two people run 1500m – one of them is a fast runner, but cannot keep his pace for long. One of them is slower, but keeps that pace consistently.
The first runner is the fastest in terms of the top running speed – however if the second wins due to his consistent, albeit slightly slower running speed, and thus achieving the fastest time – doesn’t that make him the fastest/quickest in terms of how long it takes to get from A to B?
One such dictionary definition for 'fastest':
- done in comparatively little time; taking a comparatively short time: a fast race; fast work.
With the FL example, two people running the same speed from Val to Miruvhor and back twice but one has more moves – the one with more moves is faster because he has finished the run in a shorter time and another. One word, many meanings.
Dey
dun know dey, always felt moves was about endurance. Hell the "ic" way to say your out of moves it to talk about how your feet/legs are tired.
course could always build a delay into the game based on Dex when moving, hahahaha, wouldnt that suck for giants...takes them .6 seconds longer to move one step east giving a giant a .6 second lag on moving. hahaha...
as it is now, sans running into walls, everyone moves at the same pace from one room to the next.
From a logic point of view it only works to have max moves as speed and regen rates as endurance, as said above everybody moves at the same rate.
dun know dey, always felt moves was about endurance. Hell the "ic" way to say your out of moves it to talk about how your feet/legs are tired.
course could always build a delay into the game based on Dex when moving, hahahaha, wouldnt that suck for giants...takes them .6 seconds longer to move one step east giving a giant a .6 second lag on moving. hahaha...
as it is now, sans running into walls, everyone moves at the same pace from one room to the next.
Doesn't matter if it's speed or endurance. I meant being fastest not in terms of speed, but fastest in terms of getting A to B quicker than another. Same word, slightly differing definitions.
Dey
So that means that my healer is the fastest in the lands ?
Not when your healer is chasing a little halfling PC
Healers are cheating bastards!
EDIT: Speed is NOT moves. Speed is you! IE: The real person putting in the commands. Speed is how good you are at typing and how well you have memorized the layout of the lands.
You can have 100000 moves, but be the worst typer and total newbie. You will not get there faster. You will not be faster. You will just suck, and have a lot of energy to suck.
EDIT: Speed is NOT moves. Speed is you! IE: The real person putting in the commands. Speed is how good you are at typing and how well you have memorized the layout of the lands.
You can have 100000 moves, but be the worst typer and total newbie. You will not get there faster. You will not be faster. You will just suck, and have a lot of energy to suck.
Agreed. I'm talking IGly here though, just as a character who roleplays himself as being the fastest - which the player can accomodate and demonstrate ICly by being a fast runner AND having lots of moves, thus being able to get from A to B (assuming A to B requires lots of moves) faster than other players who have an equally as fast running speed but not as many moves - thus making them the FASTEST because they are getting from A to B FASTER than the other player (who will have to rest earlier).
People are looking into this way too much!
Dey
'Are you factoring in things like flight or a mount? or is this just on the characters own merit?
The entire debate is moot anyway, as a paladin with regular moves would win thanks to heroism. Paladins can practically run forever, and that’s unmounted and without flight.
Paladins aside though, what I meant was that I am a decent runner but there are some players better – yet you can bet in an umounted/unflighted footrace I’m going to win with twice as many moves as my opponent. That still means the other player as a player is a faster runner (because he can move faster, I simply would have more moves to facilitate running for longer) but in-game it would be seen as the faster player exerting their energy too quickly and becoming tired whilst my character paces himself and can run twice as far – making my character, ICly in the in-game world, faster.
I can’t believe how in-depth this discussion is becoming.
Dey