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Great idea, extremely useful. Unfortunatly, it's another tool for _script_ed healers like /follow was. Really useful if everyone promised not to cheat . Otherwise, it'll be yanked before it will be added. Garscow      I have to disagree, completely.  Right now, even without the addition of this sidebar message I mentioned previously, I can create a fully-functioning healer bot with the macro tools that we have.  I could even verbally tell this bot to stop cadding me. (Now, before HGM says, gee, Slyph, it really sucks that you're creating healer bots, let me say that I am NOT doing that. I agree! It's a wonderful argument to bring back /Follow. But as you may remeber, there were several healer bots running around less than a week after that was introduced. They mostly dissapeared after /Follow was removed. Everything is possible now, with a little effort. The only thing that's stopping them appearing again is it takes just slightly more effort to write the macros than it does to shout Healer! over the sunstone. If we make it require less effort, those healer bots may appear again and reap havoc in our world. (On another note, I'm not getting into the Sylphstone + Cad debate because I don't think I could be coherant enough ) Garscow

How many people out there use a Sylphstone ring? I'm pretty sure there's over 40 regular users, with perhaps more than 100 exiles who actually own a ring. For every exile there's 30 ranks plus the according number of hours required to get that experience. That's a great deal of hours! I don't think it's fair to throw all of these hours away by disregarding and covering up a bug which is difficult to fix. I think that if this is truly a difficult thing to change then perhaps you should think about massively changing the healer code. imho, it is not appropriate that a simple bug like this, involving just a time difference between a conditional statement and a variable, hinders playability and makes it inconsistent. I don't agree that this should not be low priority, and neither should various other fundamental healer bugs such as death through caduceus.    Hear hear!  Of course, the issue would be largely mitigated if the balance tax was repealed...    As far as the two full actions a round argument goes, isn't that the point of rings?  To make what was a full action before become a free action? HWC for Phelps, who isn't good enough at cadding to tell if his ring works or not... obPhelpses of the World obBalance Tax SDB

I think that if this is truly a difficult thing to change then perhaps you should think about massively changing the healer code. What healer code do you recommend be massively changed? No, don't answer that