Bind zones/ no bind zones

[Angelox]

Can you all post what you remember on this? I'm mostly interested in the old school zones, mainly up to the Kunark Expansion.

Example; you could bind in Gfay, But how about Lfay? I know later on you could with the LdoN expansion - but I'm more interested in bind /zone status not past Kunark.

[ChaosSlayer]

the main distinction was betwen:
BIND SELF and BIND OTHERS

self was working prety much ANYWHERE (at least pre-kunark)
I herd reports of people binding in Permafrost, Sol B, Lower Guk.
I am myself was once bound in Plane of Fear in order to get the raid out (druid) cuase our wizard fell a sleep at keyboard =)

Binding others is a whole diffirent story- CITIES ONLY _ few extra exeptions

And to be more specific:
N/S Qeynos
Halas (not even EverFrost)
Erudine/E. Palace

Rivervale (posibly Misty Thicket )
Freeport (3 parts)
Neriak (3 parts, i cannto remeber if melees could be bound in nektulos - but its a high posability)

Grob, Oggok (cannot confirm of Innothule or ferrot)

Gfay, BB, Kaladim, Felwithe, AkkAnon (posibly SteamFont)

On Kunark, you could only bind others in Cabilis, Overthere and Firiona Vie. (not sure about newbee zones surrounding Cabilis, but posible). Casters again- prety much ANYWHERE (famous chain death at the bottom of Timorous Deep)

The only noteable exceptions was Veksar, Sebilis, VP, Howling Stones, posibly Chardok

[Angelox]

Do you know if "canbind" in "npc_types" is a general statement for all bind types or non - binders (Melletypes, etc) only?

[slowglass]

On top of this, it may have been possible to bind a melee in Runneye. My girlfriend remebers that you could. I personnally cannot remember.

I do not belive it was possible to bind in nektulos or misty thicket. I know that you could not bind in Innothule or ferrot as I remember the melee bind rules our guild had for Fear and Hate.

I would also assume you could not bind in BB or SteamFont. But again I cannot remeber a specific instance of trying/failing.

Gets even more interesting in Velious where you have zones you can only bind in certain parts of

[cavedude]

canbind is all or nothing sadly. Wild and I were working on a spell restriction system a while back and one of the key concerns was bind.

The statements above are correct, casters could bind themselves pretty much everywhere, but could only bind others in city zones. There were exceptions, notably the gypsy camp in NK could be used to bind others, but no where else in the zone.

After Kunark, the basic rule still applied, though Sony started adding more zones nobody could bind in. Those were mainly dungeons and the old world planes.

[Andrew80k]

I thought you could also bind in HHK, but that could be my failing memory...

[rojadruid]

Yeah you can bind yourself and others in HHK it was considered a town.