Family teleport might be a bad idea
Marzzo
Member, Leader of Men, Kickstarter, Alpha One
This will be abused by elite players and lessen the experience for casual players. Give families other bonuses instead.
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Marzzo
Member, Leader of Men, Kickstarter, Alpha One
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Pretty much every system can be exploited in some way, and trying to stop the top 0.1% of players from doing so is going to be a pointless headache for the devs.
(and for the more observant people, yes I literally copy-pasted by reply to the previous thread which is identical to this one, because scrolling half-way down the front page of a forum is too hard apparently).
I am willing to bet anyone that plays AoC regularly and has a few friends will set up a global teleportation system for every relevant location in the world. A guess would be 50% of the community will exploit this system.
Every time you need to travel far, you will just ask your friends to log their alt and teleport you there. This is very bad. And it's extremely naive thinking most people won't do this.
TLDR:
No linked familys, can ONLY summons the 7 other members in a family.
Takes real coordination to do a mass summon, getting at least 1(maybe 2 or 3 depending how the actual summoning works) from each family to a location.
Add a cooldown(maybe daily) if it starts to be abused.
Need to travel from the summoned location back to your town/metro. Gives time for griefing or attacks while core players are away from their home.
I don't much care about what posters have to say on the matter, I want to know what was said so that I can form my own opinion - and I haven't seen a link to it, nor a quote from it.
That is the entire philosophy of this games development. They are letting the community voice their concerns and letting the community propose solutions. I am assuming they will then use the solution voiced that they think is best and implement it.
Seems like someone will make 8 accounts, family them up, then use it to move goods, even if it is just a daily cooldown.
They would have to make it 4+ character required for the summon to reduce the chance but they could still safely travel one way, then they would have to run the mule character back.
What, so the community just up and decided that families should all have the ability to teleport to each other?
@Evir few simple things can prevent that. A daily cooldown is an easy one. If you are willing to spend $15.99 a month to transfer one characters worth of inventory per day. More power to you. Once again its about cost/reward.
Another possibility is making all harvested or farmed items drop when you teleport. Any item that can drop when you are killed by another player basically. Removes the item transfer ability and makes it so you can't just up and teleport anywhere at the blink of an eye. You would need to run back to town and put stuff in your warehouse if you are carrying anything significant before teleporting.