Question: Avatar Weight and Skill Progression

[Rayne Jade]

VU 4.3 - 4 MAR 2003
Carry Capacity
Instead of being binary as before, the carried weight gradually slows an Avatar down. If you carry more than 250 your Avatar can only walk.
NOTE: This limit will be reduced in future VU:s – please use your Storage Terminals. Also, carrying large inventories will reduce your performance and increase slowness to your experience.

I would appreciate comments regarding the red text above. I found this while browsing around in the VU Notes from past... how many of you knew this...? And how many of you pay attention to your weight before you are only walking?

What about crafters standing at a machine weighing 2500 kg? Is their experience slowed?

[Nighthawk]

i guess they mean that you might get laggy with a big inv.?

[Rayne Jade]

So I might have misunderstood...

I read that as experience (skills) being slowed... but they simply meant I will have a slower experience..?

[Silver Viking]

anyone have tested this ??
do you miss more shots, and/or get slower skillgains if you have a lot in your carried inventory ???

Very good find, + rep for brining it up

S V

[Arylia]

Read it as 'your game experience will be slowed down'. Nothing else happens, you don't hit less often, you don't find less minerals underground, your skill experience is not coming at a slower pace.

[Immortal]

Check Auktuma's 46k Ghost harness :) overweight and over item limit a long long way :)


Short Answer

No, it doesn't.

[waperboy]

The text "will reduce your performance" sounds a bit suspicious!

[kosmos]

I think the "performance" decrease is not being able to be as agile perhaps. But skills hopefully/probably not.

[SparkyJordan]

"Performance" can be taken two ways, performance of your avatar or performance of your computer. I don't think skill gains would be slowed, doesn't make sense. But I can see agility being affected by the weight carried, if the case actually is avatar performance.

As I gain more items in my inventory it does take longer to load the inventory screen. However I can't imagine this being the case only in recent VUs. I haven't been around long enough to know the difference.