Andor's Trail

I'm reading the comments in Android Market for AT and one of it came up with the Town Portal idea. Would the developer consider this idea?

like in Diablo? Why would that be needed?

In most game a town portal means you can teleport between towns without walking. I think this idea (and other similar ones) have been shot down before. For now, the only portal is the one in that alternate dimension you get to from BWM.

I do not like this idea

Fast travel, town portals, mounts (horses, dragons, etc), caravans, etc...

I am also not a fan.

Games like Diablo that use Town Portal are structured very differently. You work from a set base of operations, where you keep your stuff and do all your shopping, etc. That's nothing like that here. When was the last time you actually hung out in Crossglen?

Some kind of teleport spell might be interesting, but *not* as a routine way of skipping from town to town. This game is structured so that getting from place to place is an important part of the challenge for the players, and an important part of setting appropriate levels for quests for the designers.

If there is a rare scroll that can teleport you once from one map that you have cleared to another (or perhaps from one bed you have slept in to another - Dream Walk?), so that it can't be used to skip the first trip up BWM, say, or the first trip to Remgard, maybe that could be feasibly implemented without unbalancing the game. I would just hate for it to become an ”easy button”.

Edit:

Decided not to post my comments because majority in this forum like to shoot newbies without putting much thoughts...

zen1979 wrote:Edit:

Decided not to post my comments because majority in this forum like to shoot newbies without putting much thoughts...

I disagree. This idea has been brought up before and debated, and generally been set aside, for reasons like the ones I gave. It's not about shooting down ideas because they come from newbies, and it's not shooting down ideas without much thought.

Lots of good ideas come from new posters. Also lots of ideas take time to take root in any community.

Don't get discouraged because your first set of ideas don't wow everyone. Keep playing, keep posting, keep reading...

You being new is part of it, but not in the way you think. Most ideas "new" members suggest have been suggested 100's of times. You just havn't been around quite long enough to know what ideas have been discussed time and time again. Do not get discouraged, most ideas take months to discuss and even more months to actually put it in if it is a good fit. It is a slow proscess, but it ensures it gets done right. And even if your idea isn't a good fit, it might get you or someone else thinking of a way to get it to fit in.

IMHO I would rather get an idea shot down than not even mention the idea. (In fact, most of our idea to actual content ratios are extremely low)