DeletedUser
Many people have speculated what the effect of Prayer is, but I think it's just a correction/synchronization of our accounts.
Possibly the way the programmers have designed the software, there may be some calculation or some other errors that creep into our accounts over time. Think of this similar to fragmentation of our hard disk and the need to defrag, or rounding errors in accounting. Hence the programmers may need to run a sub routine/mini program to adjust our player accounts in the right way.
Due to possible complexities of that sub routine and time to execute, it may not be wise to run it periodically and having the player pray in anticipation of something might be less tasking. The longer the duration before prayer, more will be the discrepancies and better the effect from praying.
So, IMO, it's not much at all. May be as a bonus, the programmers may have added in a temporary in-game bonus to make us more happy.
ALTERNATIVELY...
It could also be for duelers or workers who duel a lot. May be they need to pray, so that they may repent for their sins and may not be punished too much; this punishment would be in the form of other players finding it easier to duel against you.
Possibly the way the programmers have designed the software, there may be some calculation or some other errors that creep into our accounts over time. Think of this similar to fragmentation of our hard disk and the need to defrag, or rounding errors in accounting. Hence the programmers may need to run a sub routine/mini program to adjust our player accounts in the right way.
Due to possible complexities of that sub routine and time to execute, it may not be wise to run it periodically and having the player pray in anticipation of something might be less tasking. The longer the duration before prayer, more will be the discrepancies and better the effect from praying.
So, IMO, it's not much at all. May be as a bonus, the programmers may have added in a temporary in-game bonus to make us more happy.
ALTERNATIVELY...
It could also be for duelers or workers who duel a lot. May be they need to pray, so that they may repent for their sins and may not be punished too much; this punishment would be in the form of other players finding it easier to duel against you.