Translocators! Your opinion.

[Kreigore]

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

It is not vital that we be able to move around Norrath on a whim. Travel doesn't have to be easy, in order for the game to be good. It also doesn't have to be quick, in order for the game to be good.

I never said traveling should be easy. The population is low; therefore, it takes quite sometime to find a generous person to teleport.

It should have been a.) left alone, b.) get the boats functioning or c.) have the timer as it is now, but alter the "spawn points" of the translocators. Evil races should not have to be ported into trouble. I was aggroed immediately as I was translocated in.

[Aeolwind]

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

I never said traveling should be easy. The population is low; therefore, it takes quite sometime to find a generous person to teleport.

It should have been a.) left alone, b.) get the boats functioning or c.) have the timer as it is now, but alter the "spawn points" of the translocators. Evil races should not have to be ported into trouble. I was aggroed immediately as I was translocated in.

Which spot? I thought I'd fixed them =(

[Tollen]

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

Which spot? I thought I'd fixed them =(

coming from FP to OOT i was in his group he died...

[stormlord]

Continuing my post as I was editing it when the power went out this morning...

This this changes:

1) encourages us to learn how to fish (gawd knows I need to train it) [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2) makes the trip more challenging for evil races - which is as it should be (you didn't think those stats/regen were free did you?).

3) quests in the area that were made when traveling was slower to now function again.

4) further increases the value of ports like druids and wizards (there will be more porters when/if this goes into effect)

Having said all that... do we have the population to help compensate for the downtime? Back in 1999 there were more people, and more porters. That had to reduce the frustration somewhat. Additionally, traveling on the boat was fun the first few times (or fun everytime if you're like me). Translocaters are not boats and shouldn't be confused with them - they're not fun in the same way.

I really don't think it's a problem though. I know people complain, but if you're making the trip that often then you should rethink your plans. I'm absolutely honest when I say that traveling from one continent to another is something I do very, very rarely (haven't done it yet). So having to wait is not a problem for me. Instead, it's an opportunity to get a fishing pole and fish while I wait. Now, if I was bound in freeport and hunting in OOT, it might get me mad. But overall, I think most of the population will rarely use the boats/translocaters. If anything, this mechanic will decrease the numbers of people that hunt in OOT or zones that're in the path of the boat/translocater. I expect casters to still go to those zones since they can bind in them without having to translocate.

And before anyone tells me I don't know what I"m talking about.... I do. I played when everyone used boats. I had to take a boat to get to get to velious. I had to take a boat to get to erud's crossing and erudin (which I did several times in my career). I took the boat from freeport to faydwer as well (even tho my corpse was lost at sea because of a boat bug). I did lots of fishing. I remember it very well.

Btw, the need for binds has already pushed me to make a druid alt. That's one more future porter at your service.

[Dijalin]

I have abstained from voting, as there was not an option on there I could agree with.

I am all for the translocators being on a spawn timer, if they are sync'd. If there is a way to get the boats working again then that would be fricken awesome.

Also.... weren't there 2 boats that traversed the open waters between E FP, the Isles of the Ocean of Tears, and BB?

Wouldn't waiting 20 minutes be a little silly considering boats came every 10 minutes or less?

[Neno]

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

2) makes the trip more challenging for evil races - which is as it should be (you didn't think those stats/regen were free did you?)..

EXP penalty.

Voted: Lame

The people who want to wait at the dock for an extra 10-15min raising fishing skill are more than welcome to even when the TLs are up.

[Torrinn]

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

Continuing my post as I was editing it when the power went out this morning...

This this changes:

1) encourages us to learn how to fish (gawd knows I need to train it) [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2) makes the trip more challenging for evil races - which is as it should be (you didn't think those stats/regen were free did you?).

3) quests in the area that were made when traveling was slower to now function again.

4) further increases the value of ports like druids and wizards (there will be more porters when/if this goes into effect)

Having said all that... do we have the population to help compensate for the downtime? Back in 1999 there were more people, and more porters. That had to reduce the frustration somewhat. Additionally, traveling on the boat was fun the first few times (or fun everytime if you're like me). Translocaters are not boats and shouldn't be confused with them - they're not fun in the same way.

I really don't think it's a problem though. I know people complain, but if you're making the trip that often then you should rethink your plans. I'm absolutely honest when I say that traveling from one continent to another is something I do very, very rarely (haven't done it yet). So having to wait is not a problem for me. Instead, it's an opportunity to get a fishing pole and fish while I wait. Now, if I was bound in freeport and hunting in OOT, it might get me mad. But overall, I think most of the population will rarely use the boats/translocaters. If anything, this mechanic will decrease the numbers of people that hunt in OOT or zones that're in the path of the boat/translocater. I expect casters to still go to those zones since they can bind in them without having to translocate.

And before anyone tells me I don't know what I"m talking about.... I do. I played when everyone used boats. I had to take a boat to get to get to velious. I had to take a boat to get to erud's crossing and erudin (which I did several times in my career). I took the boat from freeport to faydwer as well (even tho my corpse was lost at sea because of a boat bug). I did lots of fishing. I remember it very well.

Btw, the need for binds has already pushed me to make a druid alt. That's one more future porter at your service.

And when everyone rolls up a porting alt like you say, the price of ports will drop because of competition so not leaving the tl up 24/7 does nothing to protect the income of the porting classes, it makes it worse. When everyone can port it will do to the value of a port what the PoK books did to them. Drop it to nothing.

[jawtoe]

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

And when everyone rolls up a porting alt like you say, the price of ports will drop because of competition so not leaving the tl up 24/7 does nothing to protect the income of the porting classes, it makes it worse. When everyone can port it will do to the value of a port what the PoK books did to them. Drop it to nothing.

This isn't something worth worrying about. Yes it's an option that everyone roll porting alt's, but MOST people don't have the time for that or don't care to. People who are willing to level a porting class to 29 might become a little more common, but not by much. It just so happens that one of the two porting classes (druids) are one of the few really good soloing classes. On a server with a small population, these solo classes are also going to be more common.