Re: Transport by Ra

[Steve Ames <steve>]

> In order for a Priest of Ra to transport almost exactly half way around 
> the world (in one hop), they reqiure the Defer group up to rank 11 (as 
> Sun Port is rank 11) which would add another 8 ratings to your estimate.
> 'Course, it costs the same amount of units either way.  But with the 
> elven DUs defer give you, it's 22 out of 42 DUs that you blow to get 
> there.  By the other way, it's 22 out of 31 and that's rough if you 
> teleport and then have to bring order to the world in some manner.

Make sure you come back with a passenger as well... That way its 11
out of 31. Unless you have some reason back in your home city, stick
until you have a passenger or your about to forget the memloc. You can
always ferry messeges/stuff for the temple. *shrug*

> While this may be a small difference, it takes a substanial amount of 
> time to get a character to rate 58 only to have them shuttle people back 
> and forth.  Until recently, there didn't seem to be a strong demand to 
> cause higher priests of Ra to leave the temple and make their millions 
> casting Sun Ports.  There may not even be enough now.

Absolutely. The cost/time of shipping is insane compared to blowing a
renewable resource (spell units) and do it in minutes. Unfortunately
sunport requires sun I think and seldom does that exist on both sides
of the world at once. You might have a dawn and/or evening window if you
time it right... dark port and/or sea port work a little more reliably.

Opening up a couple of "otherworlds" while you lose eeps its permanent.
Keep one in your basement and one in your basement in the other place
and cut down your shipping/travel costs... by a lot.

						-Steve