Fires of Heaven Guild Message Board - View Single Post - Plane of Time - Quarm death -> Waking Zeb needs a fix

Kodylan · 08-27-2003, 01:46 PM

As I'm sure most know by now, when you kill Quarm, Zebs stasis chamber becomes targetable and once you destroy it Zeb is awoken and it triggers a script. This script goes on for about two minutes, then Druzzil Ro spawns and there's a brief dialogue followed by a large range AE port to the plane of knowledge - something that in its current state can not be delayed. This needs to be changed, and changed fast. It's stupid that it doesn't bring up a box that warns you, or asks you if you're ready yet. Come on, what are people going to gain by not being ported out? What will they lose by BEING ported out you ask? If someone goes LD before looting their items from quarm, or whatever the case may be, and they're ported out, they stand a good chance at losing those items.

It's something that in design is "neat", I guess, but in reality it's dumb and pointless. Last night we got ported out before our ranger could loot his Stone of Flowing Time. Lo and behold, tier 1 respawned when he tried to zone back in to loot his item. I'm not sure if it's a bug with instancing code or what, but this NEEDS to be fixed. The port SHOULD NOT reset the script - which it seems to have done last night. We had nearly two full hours remaining on the script last night when quarm died - no way should it have reset already.

Please fix this to make the port to PoK optional, or at least fix it so the script doesn't reset on the port.

08-27-2003, 01:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
Kodylan Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 2,105 +0 Internets	Plane of Time - Quarm death -> Waking Zeb needs a fix As I'm sure most know by now, when you kill Quarm, Zebs stasis chamber becomes targetable and once you destroy it Zeb is awoken and it triggers a script. This script goes on for about two minutes, then Druzzil Ro spawns and there's a brief dialogue followed by a large range AE port to the plane of knowledge - something that in its current state can not be delayed. This needs to be changed, and changed fast. It's stupid that it doesn't bring up a box that warns you, or asks you if you're ready yet. Come on, what are people going to gain by not being ported out? What will they lose by BEING ported out you ask? If someone goes LD before looting their items from quarm, or whatever the case may be, and they're ported out, they stand a good chance at losing those items. It's something that in design is "neat", I guess, but in reality it's dumb and pointless. Last night we got ported out before our ranger could loot his Stone of Flowing Time. Lo and behold, tier 1 respawned when he tried to zone back in to loot his item. I'm not sure if it's a bug with instancing code or what, but this NEEDS to be fixed. The port SHOULD NOT reset the script - which it seems to have done last night. We had nearly two full hours remaining on the script last night when quarm died - no way should it have reset already. Please fix this to make the port to PoK optional, or at least fix it so the script doesn't reset on the port.