Re: Transport by Ra

["Rick Myers" <leviathan_60@hotmail.com>]

BJ,


>Rick,
>
>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.

I'm not as familar as you are with the Ra spells, why do you need to 
defer the sunport if you are transporting yoursself?


>'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.

True, however, my model was also designed to recapture 10 units per time 
period spent in the sun.

>
>
>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.

Ah, but you are forgetting about all those spells the priest of Ra 
accumulates while developing his ability to cast the transport spells.

My calculation for the rate 50 Priest of Ra included:
40 DP
rank 12 in Changings
Rank 12 in the list with SunPort 
Rank 10 in the list with Nova
as well rank 10 in the list for capturing units

Although designed for transport, a priest with 2 devine lists and a 
elemental list over 10 is capable of far more than transport alone.  

  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.
>
>BJ
>
> 
>
>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Rick Myers wrote:
>
>> Quite true, in fact a Ra priest would not even need to invest in Air 
>> magics.  Buy changings at triple, to get enmass.  Enmass to carry 
>> multiple people and sunport to anywhere on Jaern in two hops. A rate 
50 
>> Ra priest could do so with 40 DP, the list for drawing units of 10 
and 
>> the ever popular "Run and Gun" list at 10. 
>> 
>> Rick 
>> 
>> 
>> >Cooperation would not be necessary if the person doing it was an Air 
>> mage
>> >who bought the Changings group at double cost, and was later 
ordained 
>> as
>> >a priest of Ra, to buy up Ra spells at triple cost. Also a Ra Priest 
>> who
>> >bought into the Air group would be able to get both the Dimensions 
and 
>> >changings group at 6x cost. Expensive in terms of experience, but 
not
>> >impossible.
>> >
>> >-Sean
>> >
>> 
>> 
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