Well, there was a pretty fair share of complaints about the size of surfaces and duration of effects, so hopefully that will become less necessary. I read somewhere that the surfaces are going to be made smaller in general... I hope that the effect duration gets reduced as well... or will have to look for a mod to do that. It's just really excessive in the EA. I played DOS 1, and felt like the surfaces and durations were fine. Here, while it can be convenient to use them to cheez, the reality is that they just went overboard. Half of the time in combat, I'm just stuck clearing surfaces or clouds, and then spend who knows how long after combat trying to make it safe to travel through the battlefield.
