Game Mechanics: Unable to ride boat into The Overthere as lvl 1 character

[worch]

As a level 1 character, I was on the boat in timorous deep headed to the overthere. When I expected to zone into the overthere, I was instead teleported to the safe spot in timorous deep and received the following message.

You are not yet experienced enough to pass through an inter-planar portal.

[Thulghor]

Yeah, this is something they set up intentionally. It restricts you to basically newbie zones, until you're like, level 5. The reason being is that some people were making level 1 characters, then training people in dungeons, and when they did epic mobs.

[worch]

Originally Posted by Thulghor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, this is something they set up intentionally. It restricts you to basically newbie zones, until you're like, level 5. The reason being is that some people were making level 1 characters, then training people in dungeons, and when they did epic mobs.

Makes sense. I didn't know about this non-classic change.

In this instance, I think it should be removed. It prevents characters from legitimately travelling from the old world newbie zones to field of bone. A well established player can port to dreadlands, since wizard/druid ports do not have this restriction and they'd have plat for ports, but a new player trying to get to kunark via boat is restricted by this.

[Man0warr]

It's just temporary until they find another solution to stop the level 1 hackers.

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by worch [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Makes sense. I didn't know about this non-classic change.

In this instance, I think it should be removed. It prevents characters from legitimately travelling from the old world newbie zones to field of bone. A well established player can port to dreadlands, since wizard/druid ports do not have this restriction and they'd have plat for ports, but a new player trying to get to kunark via boat is restricted by this.

Ports do not bypass the level 5 check by the way.

You can't port a level 1 to Lavastorm last I tried.

[Grimjaw]

my assumption is that only certain zones have the "you cannot enter" check. Given the fact that they made it all the way through timorous only to be roadblocked in OT. So porting to dreadlands might work...

either way, sloppy implementation to a lame custom mechanic.


if anything (besides completely scrapped) it should be "you are stuck in this zone until a certain level" and not "you are blocked from entering this zone, umm this zone, and I guess this zone too"

[worch]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ports do not bypass the level 5 check by the way.

You can't port a level 1 to Lavastorm last I tried.

I've had a lvl 1 ported to dreadlands two or three times now. I did it just yesterday when the boat failed on me. I'm sure this works. I haven't tried lavastorm though.

[Jimjam]

Lavastorm doesn't work. I tried porting a fresh Brell Halfling warrior there to do corpse drags (not KoS to fire goblins).

[aubie]

Just tried to zone a level 2 halfling rogue into Lower Guk but got the message and relocated back to zone in. Yeah this is BS, but if people were abusing the train thing, that makes sense. Maybe a better solution would have been to ban their accounts and their guild.

[Darkatar]

Originally Posted by aubie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maybe a better solution would have been to ban their accounts and their guild.

Accounts are unlimited and free.