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cut down on the cut scene.. please QoL issue

Jagged

By Jagged,
Posted on: 2011-09-19 23:16 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

Posted

I have a running QoL post here and mentioned this in passing a while ago but as I work on my 17th Incarnate and find myself running my ____ BAF trial I think its time this had a thread all its own....

PLEASE .. make the ability to avoid the cut scene on the BAF a global not per character fix. Yes.. its the first time MZ Luberty (not an actual character) is doing the BAF but I have 16 other characters that have already done the same trial and at this point I have probably seen that thing over 200 times or more. At this point I think I can safely say I GET the idea for why we are doing it.

I realize there will still be new players hitting 50 for the first time and running the trials with us and I have no problem watching it with them.. ONCE. But I know there are hundreds, thousands, of players just like me that have multiple characters doing trials and making us watch the same thing over and over and over for no better reason than..

"That character hasn't seen it before!" is close to being torture! Yeah the character hasn't seen the scene before but the person at the KEYBOARD controlling it has and I figure I probably lost a couple hours of actual game play time watching that thing again and again.

Not sure how hard it would be to do but it doesn't seem that big a deal. Simply change the criteria for skipping to global for an account and then if a player wants to have 100 incarnates he only triggers the cut scene once.

�We�re always the good guys. In D&D, we�re lawful good. In City of Heroes we�re the heroes. In Grand Theft Auto we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat.� � Leonard
�Those women are prostitutes? You said they were raising money for stem cell research!� � Sheldon

 

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If that is the way they are tracking it.. then change it. We have other things that are applied account wide.. like anything we purchase from the stores in Ouroborus with our spare Astral or Empyrean merits so obviously the technology exists.

I am NOT saying its a horrible cut scene but when you are trying to open up your Judgement and Lore slots on a "new" character you probably run that same mission 8 to 10 times.. and YES folks I realize you ca BUT Incarnate XP with threads. you can also run missions and save the threads and the millions in influence by actually running missions and guess what.. by the time you open the slot you probably have enough salvage and threads to throw a tier 3 into it. I have used both methods.

But considering the comments every time we have to watch it again I'd take an semi eductaed guess and say for every person sitting at their computer "ENJOYING" watching it again for the 9th or 10th time in the same day .. there are 20, 30 or more rolling their eyes and wishing it would end so they can get on with the battle.

�We�re always the good guys. In D&D, we�re lawful good. In City of Heroes we�re the heroes. In Grand Theft Auto we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat.� � Leonard
�Those women are prostitutes? You said they were raising money for stem cell research!� � Sheldon