Portals / Way Points

[Rhinehold]

I think we can all agree that walking 600 paces anywhere sucks ass. 

Something I really liked about Diablo 2 was the Way point system.  Once you "discovered" a way point, you could then go back and fourth.  This seems like it would be easy to do with a "portal room" that blocked your entrance until the game flagged you as having entered the room the portal exited to.

Thoughts?

[Gardner Denver]

Easy enough to do I suppose.  Wouldn't be a bad idea so long as you didn't go wild with the locations you could teleport to.

[DeathCow]

naaw...

[kalus]

yea?

[Rhinehold]

as in you are just not interested in having a quicker route to those far away destinations that are 30 minutes or more of just walking? ;-)

-DR

[DeathCow]

There are portals already in place, and short cuts already in place. Most players just don't use them, because megamud doesnt know the routes.

[kalus]

Lost City?

[DeathCow]

NPP-> Jungle.

[Rhinehold]

I don't have any problem using the Negative Power Plain, except for having to go through the black wastelands and playing with the Lord of the Hunt.....

If there would be a way we could make the NPP easier to use/access

[DeathCow]

Wait what, the loth is up? MINE.

[Rhinehold]

sure, a side from the terror beasts, nexus hunters, and behemoths.

[Silas]

I think Metro had it right the first time making shortcuts dangerous. It goes in par with the high risk high payout part of.. anything fun.

[DeathCow]

I like most of the short cuts in the game.  I don't care for some of them like the old mines and fungus tunnels.

[Hydroponic]

Wasn't the obsidian obelisk supposed to eventually be used for some kind of teleport system?

Hydro

[DeathCow]

Oh yeah..that needs to be worked on a bit..so the talismen doesnt explode