magic bullet usage

[jensen]

At level 1 magic, when I cast magic bullet, I never use mana. I can keep casting forever. Then when I get to level 2 magic, I use mana and can only cast a limited amount of shots before I run out of mana. Could an experienced player explain this?

Why aren't dragons able to use shields, they can wear rings, so they have hands to hold shields. I can seldom learn spells even though I have 22 mana.

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[poof]

At level 1 magic, when I cast magic bullet, I never use mana. I can keep casting forever. Then when I get to level 2 magic, I use mana and can only cast a limited amount of shots before I run out of mana. Could an experienced player explain this?

Sure, I suppose. Your level 1 magic bullet requires no mana but at level 2 or so it does. This is simply to help newbies out AFAIK. It may actually be a bug though. A programmer familiar with the code would be the one that really needs to answer this.

Why aren't dragons able to use shields, they can wear rings, so they have hands to hold shields.

The way the code works is that dragons have fingers but not hands. Hands are what determines if a player can equip and use weapons and shields. Yeah, it produces an odd looking dragon in my mind but that is the way it works.

I can seldom learn spells even though I have 22 mana.

Has nothing to do with mana. Learning spells more easily requires higher than level 10 base stat in (I)ntelligence and learning prayers requires the same in (W)isdom. Dragons rarely start out very high in either of those categories. One needs to increase those with permanent stat potions (up to the maximum for one's character preferrably).

[Salathar]

At level 1 magic, when I cast magic bullet, I never use mana. I can keep casting forever. Then when I get to level 2 magic, I use mana and can only cast a limited amount of shots before I run out of mana. Could an experienced player explain this?

Sure, I suppose. Your level 1 magic bullet requires no mana but at level 2 or so it does. This is simply to help newbies out AFAIK. It may actually be a bug though. A programmer familiar with the code would be the one that really needs to answer this.

I recall the good old times of infinite magic bullet! Oh this was fun Did not last for very long though as you tended to level up and eventually it would start costing spell points.
As far as I know this now has been fixed in the cvs, here is an entry from the changelog:

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server/spell_util.c: SP_level_spellpoint_cost() - never have a spell
  cost 0 spellpoints due to attunement or other bonuses - spell always
  cost at least 1 sp/grace.
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MSW 2004-05-13