Anyone got a script for getting into/out of/through the polo maze? Right now I just keep spamming south, but is there a more efficient way?

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Tolle says, "Yup yup, 'bout time. What the heck took you so long?"

I haven't been through there in a while, but if memory serves me right isn't is once you GO TRAIL its 24 rooms to the east?


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Tolle says, "Yup yup, 'bout time. What the heck took you so long?"

>><Insert general complaint about maze areas here.>

It's a really simple maze, though. Head east until you see your landmark, then you're home free.

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Tolle says, "Yup yup, 'bout time. What the heck took you so long?"

>I'm actually much more annoyed with areas like malchata, and basilisks, and dillos.

I don't think chata and basilisks mazes compare on any level to the dillo maze...

Basilisk is actually pretty dang easy since most of the rooms are easy to identify.

I never understood the point of mazes. I refuse to hunt in them and become frustrated.


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<<I don't think chata and basilisks mazes compare on any level to the dillo maze...

Not so much the maze, as the rooms that dont go into the room you think they do. Once you learn an area, it all becomes moot. I'm just saying some areas were annoying to memorize.

Falker

>>You get lost easier in them it seems since you think you know where you're going but dont end up there and have to stop and try and figure out where you are.<<

If you memorize some landmarks the Malchata area is pretty easy.


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I think mazes are a decent feature for getting through areas or into or out of an area, but not the area itself.

How do you get to Caracals? Oh you go down the forest trail, through the enchanted maze and then under the giant arch! That way it's interesting but you don't have to hang out in a maze for hours on end having to bring up your map all the time because you accidently hit s..


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not always. there's about 5 different "paths" of west, only 2-3 of em will get you to reeds iirc.

Long long time ago Gwynae tried to map em, had a bunch of people standing in different rooms, didn't work out though.

The croc area periodically changes too. This can be seen with the use of hunt over time, people change spots, e.g., from west south to east south.

The shifting mazes bother me even more, yeah. They look great on paper, and are a nice little experience if you just have to visit the area once in a great while. But any hunting or repeated trips through just get super annoying after awhile. Most mazes annoy me like that. The little 'tricks' to get out of some of them only make them slightly less annoying for me personally.


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<<I have to toss in here about the croc area that, if you SEARCH, it tells you which way to go.

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- George, Player of Foresee

>>Pretty sure that you head as far westish as you can to get in, and as far eastish as you can to get out.

Reverse that, or at least that's the way I've always gone. East for the tree, west for the path. Wouldn't be all that hard to do with Genie. I'd hate to think what it would entail with Wizard or SF though

HUNT is the lazy option for crocs.

Leave a shadowling/familiar at the exit, don't go too far in, and HUNT it to get back.

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It looks the same, she says, but it is not.
It looks as they expect, but it is not."

Lol, i've been in crocs quite a bit fairly recently farming skins for bucklers, and just >e, >go reed, over and over will get you out everytime in under a minute.

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Eladrin

>Lol, i've been in crocs quite a bit fairly recently farming skins for bucklers, and just >e, >go reed, over and over will get you out everytime in under a minute.

It isn't that you can't get out (although that can be an annoyance) but that you can't really move around the area successfully. The area is huge, and people tend to stay near the reeds and not explore the majority of it. Granted, it may be easier to explore now with hunt.

An interesting one is the death spirit forest north of Leth with that intermittent mist that teleports you randomly around the forest. Sometimes it teleports you out of the forest into that temple or shrine area a few rooms north.

You can only enter the forest at night, but I found out that if you're in the forest when the sun comes up, then everything continues as if it was still night. The death spirits still show up. I never saw the mist hit me when I wasn't changing rooms, so if you stay in one spot you shouldn't have any trouble. But if you move around and get teleported out into the shrine during the day, then you have to wait until night again to re-enter the forest.

Another maze that yields to scripting though.

Kaxis

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A heavy crossbow is a heavy crossbow type weapon.

The rooms and exits are all fixed and connect in logical fashion like most hunting areas, so it's not a typical difficult maze, you're right. The mist is really the only thing that gives it a maze-like aspect since it's diorienting. But I rather liked the place when I was there. Ghost hunting in a haunted forest is a good RP feel for me. DS are basically leucros with boxes, which was very good for me at the time. I never saw anyone else in there the weeks I went there either. I find mazes in general to be annoying, but that one was at least different in mechanics. It sort of fit the idea of a spooky, magical, and otherworldly area. Another one with good RP is the hive. Mazes that are obviously just worried into place for no other purpose other than to have a maze is not good design technique IMHO.

The polo maze is one I've not tried yet. I'll be interested to check it out sometime if I ever get out that far.

Kaxis

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TIP OF THE DAY:
A heavy crossbow is a heavy crossbow type weapon.