Translocator: Extend time by +15 seconds!

[xblade724]

The amount of time the translocator is there is probably the same amount of time the boat is there. BUT what doesn't seem under consideration was typing the phrase (and typing it correctly when typing fast under pressure) to TL! Countless times the TL has poofed while I'm in the middle of typing my request.

Even 15 seconds extra would drastically help!

[Humerox]

xblade, meet hotbutton. hotbutton, meet xblade.

[Spud]

add another 5 seconds on top of that! because sometimes you can jump off the docks and catch the boat while its leaving

[Toboggan]

Hotkeys are your friend. And you get 10 banks of them.

/target Translocator
/say Hail, Translocator. I wish to travel to <zone>.

Loading please wait...

[abbadox]

add another 5 seconds on top of that! because sometimes you can jump off the docks and catch the boat while its leaving

LOL -- been there done that before!

[yaaaflow]

Boats only actually stayed at the docks for 60 seconds, while the translocators are up for 100 seconds. Given your estimate of 15s to type in your message I think the clear solution is infact to nerf the translocators by 25s. Please remake your poll with the option for the translocator to be nerfed, ty.

[Spud]

Boats only actually stayed at the docks for 60 seconds, while the translocators are up for 100 seconds. Given your estimate of 15s to type in your message I think the clear solution is infact to nerf the translocators by 25s. Please remake your poll with the option for the translocator to be nerfed, ty.

hahaha

thread backfire!

[xblade724]

Boats only actually stayed at the docks for 60 seconds, while the translocators are up for 100 seconds. Given your estimate of 15s to type in your message I think the clear solution is infact to nerf the translocators by 25s. Please remake your poll with the option for the translocator to be nerfed, ty.

I never mentioned any time except extending time by 15 seconds.

x = x + 15

Fail at reading OP

[yaaaflow]

The premise your post is based upon:
The amount of time the translocator is there is probably the same amount of time the boat is there.

This is untrue. You are already granted more time to use the translocator than you were to get on the boat.

x = x + 15

This strikes me as being an unsound equation, mathematically.

[xblade724]

The premise your post is based upon:


This is untrue. You are already granted more time to use the translocator than you were to get on the boat.



This strikes me as being an unsound equation, mathematically.

It's a common programming equation.

[Ghesta]

What do you type at? 0.03 words per minute?

[fastboy21]

the bigger difference with TLers isn't the amount of time to type (at least for most people), its that:
1. There are no zone messages when the TLers arrive. I thought I recalled a message in classic, at least in Butcherblock when the boats were pulling in. Maybe it was just friendly players shouting.

2. You can't jump off the sides of the boat to avoid faction issues as they pull into dock when the TLer just dumps you there. Sister Island is heap of corpses if you run by most days. Same will be true when good chars try to take the boat to the OT from TD during Kunark.

I'd say those are affecting more ppl then typing times...

[Devil]

if you type so slow macro the responses for the TLers and then just click :)

[xblade724]

I fell off the dock once by accident, and couldn't even swim the 2 feet away and back up top before the TL poofed. Sorta lame

[yaaaflow]

Shoulda swam under the dock and used the TLer from there imo.

And if you fell off the dock when the boat was there the same thing would have been a problem so ???

[Malrubius]

And if you fell off the dock when the boat was there the same thing would have been a problem so ???

Yep, been there, done that...in 1999 no less.

[guineapig]

In other news I noticed that there is still an elf NPC in OOT right in front of where the translocator teleports you. This was fixed at one point but is broken again I think.

[Taminy]

add another 5 seconds on top of that! because sometimes you can jump off the docks and catch the boat while its leaving

Meh, levitate + sow = sup boat :p