Why was it changed? It sounds cute.

You came along to replace it.

You're a wiccan, it wears off quicker on the etheral plane (Or so Sarrasri told me)

If you get off of Astral or Muud or whatever the VERY moment you hit "highly neurotic", then it takes something like 1 hour and 10 minutes for it to totally wear off. Keep in mind this is up to that exact point, and that neurosis levels are only vague indicators. If you are just a little bit past "a little neurotic" into "neurotic", it will wear off much faster and be far less of a nuisance than if you are "neurotic" and almost at "highly neurotic".

A good rule of thumb is: never stay on astral for longer than you would want to be stuck with neurosis afterward.

I find the best way to maximize benefit from the Astral plane if you lack a Circlet and are alone is to hunt in small bursts - go up, start killing as fast as possible, leave as soon as you move from a little neurotic to neurotic, hunt Prime and UV in the meantime since neurosis is still only minor at that point and shouldn't detract from your ability to bash much at all, return when neurosis is gone, etc.

It also helps if you learn when astral spheres connect and disconnect, since they will ALWAYS occur at the same times of the Lusterian day. For instance, Scorpio will always connect to Cancer during the mid-morning and always disconnect during the late afternoon. Once you figure a few things out it is very easy to schedule when you can and cannot reach your favorite sphere and save yourself extra trips (or if you want to take out all the fun, you can just get someone with a cubix to take you there).

Thanks for the advice!

And I wish I could tell how neurotic I was getting when, because I didn't head up to Astral. I was curing insanity.

But seriously, thanks for the heads up on time!

New Request for a system addon: Neurosis Counter.

In an election, is your vote strength counted from when you vote, or what it is when the election ends?

When it ends, I'm pretty sure.

We don't know. Rika is speculating.

Where do mobs get the gold they drop? Do they eat the ground and turn it into coins?

(MobNewbie): A hard-shelled, many-legged cave-fisher says, "When I kill an adventurer, how do I loot the body?"

(MobNewbie): Spindle says, "If it had anything of value, it would fall out on death."

(MobNewbie): A hard-shelled, many-legged cave-fisher says, "Cool, thanks!"

That was nerfed a long time ago. Now they have to find their valuables other ways. Mostly by grinding collection quests.

Why can't NPC's do their own quests? They have the damn hay to give to the cows and there are chickens running around their stupid villages.

Easy. Because then no player controlled characters would have any quests to do.

The point is that you shouldn't ask questions that really have little IC reason, as it is just for game balance/mechanics. That goes for you too, Kial!

If Casi is a faeling, then why are her parents an elfen and (he was at the time) a merian? Where did the fae part come from?

Answer that!

Your grandparents could have been fae, for all you know. Or your grandparents' grandparent's parents!