Change to Save Points

[12171217]

Originally Posted by ff7chocoboknight

I love the constant nit-picking by people I haven't seen on the server for more than a few minutes.

How about instead of pointing out the faults, you tell us what we could do to fix it. I'm sure you can use your heads to do things other than trying to justify your points with chapters of posts.

"The time is too long."

Well, that's great. If we just change the time every time you go on a bed, with the current system, you'll almost instantly have an icon pop up in the middle of the screen. I would find that much more annoying than having to stay on the bed for 15 seconds.

Don't simply tell us what is wrong, tell us what we can do.

Now, I don't think the save system should change at all. Mostly because it's always the same people complaining. Normally I'd tell you to just not play if you do not like it, but Thor would be on my case. (Oops.) I can usually ignore the more annoying critics, however; when development progress is slowed, or even halted by these critics, it's difficult to ignore.

I don't feel like typing anymore.

Why can't you just press A when you're in the bed instead or something? You could make it painfully obvious that they're save points, dim the screen and push some text over.

Why not just have it checkpoint automatically at certain places?

I ask though, what's wrong with making it instant? Where, from a developers perspective, is the benefit of making the player sit there doing nothing?

How about the screen darkens and then the screen lights up again?
All in 5 seconds.

How about just ask if you want to save when the player dies?

It could be accomplished with a button too!

Everyone is open to the idea of beds as save points, but nobody wants to sit there and wait for 15 seconds so WD can have his "dramatic tension".

When everyone around you doesn't like what you have to say, that generally means you're wrong in some way. Classic is for the players, not WD's playground.

[ffcmike]

Originally Posted by 12171217

Everyone is open to the idea of beds as save points, but nobody wants to sit there and wait for 15 seconds so WD can have his "dramatic tension".

When everyone around you doesn't like what you have to say, that generally means you're wrong in some way. Classic is for the players, not WD's playground.

This is something that I pushed to implement, not WD, but if you're going to refer to it as a playground I strongly suggest looking at some of the current PlayerWorlds Tab servers first, especially Unholy Nation, because in comparison I find it nothing but laughable you'd claim this is the case with Classic, and as a result makes it that much more difficult to take you seriously when you do continue to nit-pick and not specifically over this but tonnes of different things that you have.

The changes I have made to cut down the waiting time, make it look more appealing and still maintain some slight realism are that you must now press A, however still wait about 3 seconds plus an additional second for every 10% of the HP it will heal as opposed to hop-in-hop-out while a darkness fade occurs.