Holly Hop Drive. Dimension Jump. Quantum Leaping

Holly Hop Drive. Dimension Jump. Quantum Leaping. Reality surfing.

After a comment was made in one of my other threads I have been thinking. The cost of a server transfer is quite a lot of money, so how about a temporary power to enable reality crashing/surfing/leaping etc.

I envisage this power being a accolade or more importantly could well be introduced as a paid for pack maybe priced at £9.99. If it is just an accolade then you would just get a power but if a paid for pack you would receive a power (I will get to it I promise), a aura (maybe the one u get for smashing Hammi with in the LGTF), and some cool costume pieces (not sure what these could be but suggestions are welcome).

If it is to be given as a accolade maybe have it awarded for completing all 4 shadow shard TF's and a new TF accessible through pocket D. The new TF would be along the lines of stopping the break down of the walls of reality. Once completed you would be awarded with accolade and a power that says you have mastered the walls of reality and now have the ability to make small temporary windows to allow safe passage.

The piece de resistance of this would be the "holly hop drive". It would be a power that has a 24 hour recharge but would allow you to jump your character to another server (whether that be EU servers only, or a full server list). Once the character had jumped 2 hours would be allowed on that server before chronometric and quantum vibrations pulled you back to your own "dimension" (server). A 15 min warning would be issued to say that reversion would take place in that time.

Obviously if people could play there mains on another server without moving them permanently to start with it may encourage more server movement which in turn brings in extra revenue.

Any naming worry could be addressed with a prefix or a suffix identifying the player's home server. It may also be necessary to have players that have dimension jumped to be visible as a different colour when targeted or when they appear on the search list.

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I like this, nice in-game version of the server visiting I suggested in your other thread. I'd let the character stay on the other server until they logged off (or chose to return) though, so you don't disappear mid-mission or mid-TF.

Bonus points for the name too

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.. Or for £5.99 (nearly half the price you propose!), just do a server transfer.

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@FloatingFatMan

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An Accolade should be given for slaving your way through the shadow shards and it should give a decent bonus power as well

server jump aint gonna happen no matter how u pad it up
that part is /unsigned

but im always up for new czzie parts even if i dont particually care for them that part is /signed

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.. Or for £5.99 (nearly half the price you propose!), just do a server transfer.

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Hang on, there was a price? I missed that bit. No to prices for this feature.

And it would need to include the US servers to be meaningful really (its a suggestion so replies about how that's unpossible are irrelevant really).

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An Accolade should be given for slaving your way through the shadow shards and it should give a decent bonus power as well

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now THAT sounds like an idea!

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But that is permament and maybe some people dont want to permantley move.

I like the idea of it being until u log out.

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again not convinced and i dont think it'll make that much of a financaly viable move 2 server hops for 2x the price of one perma hop

it would be okies if they only allowed two hops but after that they would be loosing money

and for that reason alone

/unsigned for the second time

Shadow Shard Accolade /Signed for the umpteenth time

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One major flaw with the "until you log out" part. What happens if you disconnect or the game crashes?
I don't know if the game can even tell the difference between them.

But the idea for an accolade for the hell that's getting through the Shadow Shard TFs? totally /signed

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So a months sub to play for a couple of hours on a new Server?

I think I'd just remake my toon on that server and in a month could be almost lvl 50 anyhow.

/unsigned

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Correct me if I'm wrong here Tuarus.

Your idea is two fold. Yes?

1) Complete all the Shard TFs and get a power to allow a 2hr hop to another server, after which time you're pulled back "home". This power then has a 24hr cool down.

then

2) An add-on pack available at a price (like the Cyborg pack) this includes the above power and some other stuff too.

So in both cases the hop is temporary. If someone then want to move from Union to Defiant (for example) they can then pay for a full server transfer.

Hmm, I say what a spiffing idea old bean

Gets my vote!

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You want to pay a tenner for a temporary transfer?

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@FloatingFatMan

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Not when I've done the Shard TFs and got the power that way.

Thats what I wanted to clear up - the suggestion that there are two ways to get the power.

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For a server jump within a region (Defiant -> Union or Freedom -> Vigilance) I think its a great idea and would make PvP tournaments much easier amongst other things. I'd get round naming issues with something like:
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And if this could be earned in game on a per character basis I would sign it 100%.

Cross region or with a monetary cost /unsigned.

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I envisage it as more a power that can be activated once every 24 hours, to hop you across for 2 hours. After that time you would have to wait 24 hours before being able to reactivate the power. I dont see any limit to the number of uses, i.e it becomes permanent like the jump pack power from the GvsE pack.

It would allow people to play on the other server for 2 hour periods and if they decided they liked it after a couple of weeks/months making friends they could use a server transfer and then use the power to hop back to see old friends on the origional server.

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yeah... waste of time and resources...

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Thanks for the input

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This does just seem to be more about, as far as I can make out, your obsession with being able to go to the US servers. Correct me if im wrong on that point.

Secondly, I reallt dont see any such point in the power. I havent actually been to the Shadow Shard, except once for a short while. If the TFs are as hard as people say, and you suggest adding another one in Pocket D, I know that I would want one almighty good power to use. Something like the controller power that renders an enemy unable to react in anyway, and you usually cant do anything to them either. Except a power that means you can attack them. And it works on Bosses and even EBs.

Not just a two hour jaunt to the US. Given the ammount of work the Devs are putting into some quite important game updates, AND fixing the bugs that still plague us, I seriously have high doubts that any such idea would be implemented, if even considered. But I dont know how hard these things are.

I just keep hearing, often from the Mods (Who WORK for NC, btw, so they should know) that such things are really difficult/impossible/not going to happen/all of the above

/unsigned

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I am not specifically asking for it to the US servers hence why that was in brackets. Also the sever transfer system is already in place, it just needs some tweaking to have a 2 hour shift.

As pointed out by someone else this would make for PvP tournements easier.

Your point about not going to the shadow shards is exactly why I chose them as the reason for giving this accolade. They are in another dimension and so seems fitting in that completing another dimensions TFs you should be able to master Dimension Jumping. They are not done frequently and would encourage use of a beautiful zone and underused content.

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As pointed out by someone else this would make for PvP tournements easier.

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*cough* 'Some tweaking?' I really doubt that considering the current system is a batch process which requires you to not use the character from when the request is made to when the transfer occurs.

WoW has a time limit on how often you can switch servers because it's fundamentally a brilliant tool for gold sellers to shift 'money' about and it's easy enough to abuse for fun and profit.

Don't think this is going to happen, but it would have some utlity for handling PvP tournaments and some other events. However, a two hour time limit doesn't seem to really cut it for that kind of event. I'm unconvinced, but it could maybe be made to work.

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As pointed out by someone else this would make for PvP tournements easier.


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Far more efficient to just use the test server for things like that.

Oh wait, they already do.

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@FloatingFatMan

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The writers of Red Dwarf may object the NCNC using the name Holly Hop Drive lol

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Personally I'd remove the two hour limit, make it last as long as you want. But then people wouldn't bother paying for server transfers.

What I'd really like to see is a server transfer fee that would allow you to move as many or as few characters at once as you like. Rather than just one at a time.

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It's a nice idea and a good mechanic, but I would make it lower priority than new content. I'm doubtful of the up-take if it cost money, but then again alot of folks forked out to wear wedding dresses and throw petals into the air.

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Move. Along. :P

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I am not specifically asking for it to the US servers hence why that was in brackets. Also the sever transfer system is already in place, it just needs some tweaking to have a 2 hour shift.

As pointed out by someone else this would make for PvP tournements easier.

Your point about not going to the shadow shards is exactly why I chose them as the reason for giving this accolade. They are in another dimension and so seems fitting in that completing another dimensions TFs you should be able to master Dimension Jumping. They are not done frequently and would encourage use of a beautiful zone and underused content.

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Well then, surely if the Devs want people to use the Shard, or if people ask for PvP tournaments to be made easier, then it would be time much better spent implementing;
A) Perhaps a Tournamant server, although someone mentioned they use the Test one at present, which sounds fine, and thus does not need 'fixing'.
B) Do what they did with the RWZ and Hollows, giving them a re-vamp and making them easier to get to. Given the responses on the thread so far, approximately naff all people would be interested in such a power for going through that ammount of TFs.

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