Nennayan

The actual mana numbers are sent to the client, and that's how it calculates your percentage, but they purposefully left out a UI label for your actual mana numbers, so there's no way to display them, other than evil |-|/\x0r programs which shall remain nameless.

A long long time ago, some guys imagined that EQ would be a roleplaying game, where players wouldn't obsess about numbers and game mechanics or worry about being the most uber or how fast they could clear PoF, so they tried to FORCE it by not giving us the numbers for exp, mana, skills, and many other things.

Later, there was all this discussion on having a roleplay server, since only a minority of players actually did roleplay the way VI had originally intended, and they wanted a server where everyone else had to be like them. VI said there was NO WAY TO FORCE PEOPLE TO ROLEPLAY, and that they'd never be able to make a forced RP server.

Much later, they decided to go ahead and try it, so they made Sullon Zek and Firiona Vie. Didn't really work all that well.

So now, there's really no excuse for them not to give us our mana and exp numbers, other than that they won't go back on their word and admit it was pointless to try to force people to RP by not giving them all the info. After all, they did finally give us our skill numbers, so why stop there?

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