Why I get 5 sec RT to be a janitor? Why you do this?

Explain..further details needed

Which is somewhat moot considering we have shockwave.


Avaya <--Not female.
(But supportive)
Gnome WM of TF
AIM: AvayaTF

I can see the need with flashpoint although the RT could be reduced to 2 or 3 seconds. However I do feel that the roundtime for dismantling boxes needs to drop down to 1-2 seconds. We're helping reduce the drain on system resources, give us a break!

By the way, does anyone else remember the days when there were piles of empty boxes lying around all over Crossing? I hated that so much. I would often pick them up and feed them to the gelapod.

I don't see any point in restricting it to 1 cast per minute.

Along the lines of reducing RT, I would also like to be able to harness mana in under 3 seconds and have it be a magic prime perk.

Oh and while I'm thinking about harnessing mana, why can everyone "see" us harness mana? I understand the basis for others noticing it, it's a mental exercise and so we do concentrate to do it. However, you would think that after gaining 1000 ranks in harness we could do it without others noticing the effort on our part. No I don't think 1000 harness should be when people stop noticing us. I also don't think it should be a perception check.

How would you abuse Flashpoint in a way a roundtime could prevent?


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>> How would you abuse Flashpoint in a way a roundtime could prevent

Only thing i can think of is destroying someones items.

>>A roundtime wouldn't prevent this though.

It would slow them down i guess.

>>It would slow them down i guess.

It would allow for instant retaliation but the item is destroyed instantly.

Oh yeah...

Isn't there a really low value cap on flashpoint?

I remember discovering this when I tried to get a warmie to flashpoint a bottle of naphtha and he said it was worth too much when he tried.

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Rev. Reene

>poke eyes
You can't poke the Eyes of the Thirteen.

Few gold cap and sometimes it doesn't work on magic stuff.
Vials can be flashpointed. They changed some things about nap fairly recently though.

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You glance down to see a severed thumb in your right hand and a severed thumb in your left hand.

Avaya, remind me later and we'll see if you can Flashpoint a capped silverwood short bow, or a capped basilisk arrow. I'd consider both of those valuable. At least in prime where people charge for that sort of thing.

Good thinking there Worrclan.

>>Only thing i can think of is destroying someones items.

>>A roundtime wouldn't prevent this though.

You're on the right track.

Whenever Flashpoint destroys an non-junk item (someone else's equipment, for example), the cantrip takes a 'picture' of what the item is so that, if someone cries abuse, we can (at our option) restore the destroyed item to the rightful owner (and, incidentally, remove cantrip casting ability from the transgressor).

Taking the snapshot of the item can be very resource intensive, so I wanted to make sure someone couldn't just do it over and over and crash the game.

After playing around with different roundtimes (including some as high as 10 seconds), I settled on 5 seconds as a decent balance between playability and resource friendliness.

Hope that clears things up a bit!


- GM Wythor

What goes up
is futile --
unless it goes out

One persons junk could be anothers treasure..who knows!

How about something like a white list for items?

Suggestions:
Grass
Ropes
Anything else made by braiding grass

How about just deal with the 5 sec rt or use a bucket?

<<How about just deal with the 5 sec rt or use a bucket?

Buckets aren't everywhere. Wythor specifically said that the roundtime is 5 seconds to prevent people from abusing the cantrip to destroy other people's stuff. He also said that every time someone uses the cantrip, it will take a snapshot of the item destroyed if it's not a junk item.

Obviously, if it already tracks what is junk and what isn't, the higher roundtime can be applied to those items and a lower roundtime to junk. In the end, the main function of the cantrip is to help keep the realms clean to reduce lag. Why not make it more friendly for this purpose?

Lately I find myself just dropping stuff and doing a "dump junk" before I walk away because I don't feel like dealing with the roundtime of flashpoint.

>>>>Please see previous threads for discussions about a new bucket SE of the Crossings War Mage Guild. It would take an increase to a 10 second RT for me to want to slam my head against that wall again.

>>There is a really simple solution to this. I propose that the GM's simply swap the Elemental mana in the room one south of the WM Guild with the bucketed room outside the WM Guild. That way the overall all balance of mana in elanthia is not affected, plus system resources are saved by drastically reducing the number of flashpoints currently being cast due to the absence of a bucket. Also, everyone can return to their favorite bucketed room outside the WM Guild, which hasn't been used since the mana storm.

I could go into this, rehashing the old arguments, relating the empty silence from the GM's on this topic, referring to GM posts of how they aren't going to change anything, perhaps add in some of the safe room stuff that inevitably follows this line of discussion (NOTE: I DON'T WANT A SAFE ROOM, I WANT A BUCKET+MANA+WARMAGES!).... Instead I think I'll just ::facepalm::