Remind Me Again Why...
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Benchpresser,
Posted on: 2012-01-16 19:16 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
why does rest have any real recharge time? There is no rest exploit that I know of. The only people who would benefit from a 5 second recharge time would be the people who need it - like noobs.
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Some people don't like the some of the fortune's buffs...but if you don't mind any of them I think the bird in Pocket D can set it to auto accept...
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Originally Posted by Rubberlad
After 7+ years of playing, sometimes I forget why we asked the Devs to do things the way they exist now. If you've forgotten the age-old logic too, then feel free to ask questions as to why things are the way they are nowadays.
I'll start: Why oh why did we ask the Devs to make Fortunes a manual accept again? |
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Originally Posted by Rubberlad
Why oh why did we ask the Devs to make Fortunes a manual accept again?
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Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
why does rest have any real recharge time? There is no rest exploit that I know of. The only people who would benefit from a 5 second recharge time would be the people who need it - like noobs.
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That was easy, any other questions?
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RPers mainly (i remember one person in particular had a fortune teller character based around it and wanted the choice there), but a few were upset by the miniscule to hit debuff on one of them and some were upset by the speed increase in another. |
Originally Posted by Rubberlad
After 7+ years of playing, sometimes I forget why we asked the Devs to do things the way they exist now. If you've forgotten the age-old logic too, then feel free to ask questions as to why things are the way they are nowadays.
I'll start: Why oh why did we ask the Devs to make Fortunes a manual accept again? |
As usual devs were faced with competing QQing and i think null the gull was a rather elegant solution.
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It'd be nice if the default was auto accept though, then the people who want to decline it can goto null. >.> Constantly being assaulted by pop-ups is more annoying than a 3%(?) tohit debuff or tower damage.
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Originally Posted by Verene
RPers mainly (i remember one person in particular had a fortune teller character based around it and wanted the choice there), but a few were upset by the miniscule to hit debuff on one of them and some were upset by the speed increase in another.
As usual devs were faced with competing QQing and i think null the gull was a rather elegant solution. |
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So that way I can refuse it because I do not want the thing.
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Originally Posted by Rubberlad
I'll start: Why oh why did we ask the Devs to make Fortunes a manual accept again?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Null the Gull sits on a truck on the ground floor of the red side of Pocket D. He can make you automatically accept or reject Fortunes and some other buffs, so that you do not get asked every time. You can also change it to another way at any time, and even go back to having to manually accept the buff again if you want.|
Originally Posted by Rubberlad
After 7+ years of playing, sometimes I forget why we asked the Devs to do things the way they exist now. If you've forgotten the age-old logic too, then feel free to ask questions as to why things are the way they are nowadays.
I'll start: Why oh why did we ask the Devs to make Fortunes a manual accept again? |
There are a lot of reasons to not want buffs, but Null the Gull makes it all a moot point regarding the manual accept. Talk to the bird and you are all set either way you want to go.
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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Why did we get a silly inconvenient bird instead of a much more convenient menu option?
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Originally Posted by LISAR
Some people don't like the some of the fortune's buffs...but if you don't mind any of them I think the bird in Pocket D can set it to auto accept...
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As far as I know, it is a quicker way to get features/options to us because they don't have to code and implement the UI that would be necessary otherwise.
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Originally Posted by Daemodand
Why did we get a silly inconvenient bird instead of a much more convenient menu option?
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More specifically, they didn't want to take coding/development time away from future issue designs in order to write up a UI for this- it's nowhere as easy as you think. Null the Gull was a quick and dirty solution to what had been a balloning issue among the playerbase.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
As far as I know, it is a quicker way to get features/options to us because they don't have to code and implement the UI that would be necessary otherwise.
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Originally Posted by Benchpresser
More specifically, they didn't want to take coding/development time away from future issue designs in order to write up a UI for this- it's nowhere as easy as you think. Null the Gull was a quick and dirty solution to what had been a balloning issue among the playerbase.
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And as I recall, he "just appeared" in Pocket D one day as a glitch--- a seagull, of all things, with "Null" where the NPC name would have been. So they adapted this odd programming bug into the bird that can fix your problems, which was a record-fast solution to the issue at hand.
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
Unfortunately, however, he is wily enough to not accept bread, rice, or alka seltzer from the players, so we're stuck with him.
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Unfortunately, however, he is wily enough to not accept bread, rice, or alka seltzer from the players, so we're stuck with him.
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Originally Posted by Daemodand
Why did we get a silly inconvenient bird instead of a much more convenient menu option?
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Ye gods, THIS! ^
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Menu option would be nice, but this way we got it faster.
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Null was added in response to people's concerns over Speed Boost becoming an AoE, so the option to disable the speed buff had to be added fast. The Mystic Fortune options were a nice bonus.
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If only the silly inconvenient bird was a bit more convenient, not requiring you to re-talk to him to set another setting. Was a "back" option too difficult in the dialog options?|
Originally Posted by Daemodand
Why did we get a silly inconvenient bird instead of a much more convenient menu option?
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After 7+ years of playing, sometimes I forget why we asked the Devs to do things the way they exist now. If you've forgotten the age-old logic too, then feel free to ask questions as to why things are the way they are nowadays.
I'll start: Why oh why did we ask the Devs to make Fortunes a manual accept again?