Meeting up

[dondark]

Yea .. i might just Make a new character and transfer all my gear and silver to that guy .. seems like the easyest solution .. cause i seriously doubt its gonna stop . But i hope they Extend the teleport to the 30 silver wilderness guide one day .. dont see an issue with that

Prolly the best bet for now. would save you alot of time.

could always try starting over and angle away from the mountain direction.

I've had to move around the map quite a few times and only once i had the problem of massive mountains. it took some extra time but i made it.

I think the big problem with this is buying the tele is a free ride for the loot alt.

Problem is when your new you got no silver and no knowledge of the free ride being the only option for meeting up with friends so you are very likely to just use it straight away . but i wonder if i try to just walk to him from boston rather than from where the wilderness guide sent me i might end up with a diffrent result . But yea .. thanks for the insight

[Dallane]

Problem is when your new you got no silver and no knowledge of the free ride being the only option for meeting up with friends so you are very likely to just use it straight away . but i wonder if i try to just walk to him from boston rather than from where the wilderness guide sent me i might end up with a diffrent result . But yea .. thanks for the insight

yes you might even be closer from there.

[MagicManICT]

Meeting up with friends that just joined the game has a solution. The problem is it is not be obvious what needs to be done and it's a bit buggy. If a couple of people have already been playing for a while want to join up, there is no solution other than walking.

There might be room for a new object in game that acts as a beacon for players to spawn or teleport to. The sole purpose of this would be to allow new town members to join a town. There are a lot of issues with this, though. There could be enough restrictions put on to prevent abuse and make it solely for bringing in new players to a town or claim.

Could this be used as a cheap way to move goods quickly between towns? Require an empty bag just like trying to port home from the wilderness. Also require a silver fee to use it.

Could this be used spawn in a bunch of fighters to attack someone? Limit use to once per 24 hours or something like this could be one possible solution or limit it to people without Rights of Englishmen just like the random teleport.

Could this be griefed by someone with the password? This is definitely a possibility. Just like the homestead secret, a player would want to protect who had access to it. A limit in number of uses per day would prevent spawning a lot of alts, but the flip side to that issue is that someone could use up the teleport for the day. An "on/off" switch might be a solution.

Someone might mention Charter Stones which were eventually removed from HnH. They didn't actually serve a practical purpose and were just used for griefing, gimmicks, or bug abusing. The idea was to give new players an option of spawning there and wandering out to their own adventure or maybe joining the village they spawned at, but because of the requirement to build one only on a village claim, it wasn't practical--nobody wants a bunch of alts wandering around the outskirts of town. However, there were some merits to the idea and putting in restrictions such as I have mentioned above might make it practical without the previous issues.

[Shiala]

Problem is when your new you got no silver and no knowledge of the free ride being the only option for meeting up with friends so you are very likely to just use it straight away .

I agree, there needs to be some info on that in the little tutorial segment. Any new character who actually follows the instructions that pop up once they get to Boston is going to run into this situation. Once you follow the steps to get the inspirational and buy survival skills, you're told to go talk to the wilderness guide and get your free teleport. New players who have been following the steps up to that point aren't going to think twice about following that step as well. It would be nice if when you talk to the wilderness guide, there's some explanation about how you will need to use your free port to be sent to a friend's homestead secret and also the fact that the friend needs to have a claim before it will work.

[Sevenless]

The free port and the friend port should be separate, both cancelled upon owning the rights skill. Setting up a random leanto is a first step must for new players to avoid being massacred near boston, but being able to meet up shouldn't be hindered by that.