The Translocators and Us

[Virtuosos]

This is a post that will explain the translocators and their role in Live EQ as compared to now. There is a poll in the poll section that discussed this, but that thread has died.

The Role: Translocators are, in essence, teleporters who were put in place because of glitchy boats. They are to assist you in your travels across the Ocean of Tears to either Freeport or Butcherblock.

The Past: In classic, they were contiunally up when boats did not work.

The Present: Translocators are up on a odd time-spawn, 10 minutes or so for each place (BB, OOT, FP) but i have noticed something. When BB spawns, it spawns 2 minutes AFTER the oot one has spawned, placing you at a rough 18minute wait just to get to the other side. That is assuming these things are, indeed, a true 10minute wait. I have been know to waste as long as 26 minutes waiting to get from FP to BB.

The Waste: I understand the goal of this server, i really do. I am a huge advocate of it as it has given me a flood of flashbacks. But this issue with translocators has ruined half the fun this game is. I utterly dread having to use them because of the outrageous wait. The boats were placed in the game as a fun thing, the travel time was not an issue because it was enjoyable + it was INSTANT from OOT. You didnt have to wait for another boat to arrive, you just kept on the same boat. Now, the translocators are to replace boats in the same regard (simulate the boat wait-time for the real classic feel) but they dont.

The Solution: I am not asking for translocators that are spawned 100% of the time, I am not asking for you to fix the boats when in all honestly that would require a hell of a lot of work that can be spent on fixing other bugs/details. What I AM asking for though, is for a simple 100% spawned Translocator on OOT so it would atleast simulate what the boats did, as in a breif stop in OOT and then we contiuned our journey.

It just seems like this is an extremely needless timewaste that makes traveling horrendous as a non-porting class and it doesnt even reflect Live as this server is intending on doing. I have a hard enough time trying to keep my armor upgraded, I cant exactly afford buying ports or even relying on a druid to always be handy to teleport me.

So i implore you, the GM and developers, to think about this annoying problem. This Translocator thing is just ridiculous, i spend more time trying to get from one place to another than actually training. I dont want things put on easy mode, i dont want this to turn into WoW, I am just suggesting a patch that makes this server even closer to the LIVE experience than it is now. I do not think I am asking for anything too extreme, too different (hell, as I already stated its not different at all...Live had the trans spawned 100% of the time anyways) or too radical. So please, look into this,