Why Haven't We Added Merida To The Teleport List?!

[BattleCircle]

Careful, Careful....

You know that old saying.....

Tick off the wrong people for giving you what you wanted and they just might make /death not work in taverns anymore

[Ganak]

Yeah really, I'm lazy. I hate the /death shortbus.

I hate shag carpets too.

/signed with blood

[Lewcipher]

because house P theatre needed a facelift

jrp

Nail on the head brother. Who needs actual functionality when they can improve the way the questgiver to Gwylan's looks!!

[salmag]

The Devs are too busy working on important things, like "Hirelings."

Why should they waste important time on fixing obvious things? The "NPE" and "hirelings" are much more important.

[samagee]

It wouldn't be so bad if the road to Meridia weren't populated by spiders who run 40 miles an hour and hit like Lawrence Taylor.

People don't complain about travelling everywhere else because travelling no where else can result in so much damage or even death to a high toughness level 16 who has an unlucky roll or two. It just seems so.... unnecessarily punitive.

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A high level area being dangerous. That's just unthinkable...

We do need some form of travel as well though. I say change the greater teleport to allow for telelporting party members to and from places even public areas. We also need mounts, boats, and siege machines.

[Bradik_Losdar]

I've suggested this numerous times:

Make that lazy guy Geriatrus just inside the gate to the Twelve a teleporter just like the guy in the One Ear Bugbear Inn in Tangleroot. (you know the one who tells you to scram until you've talked the Chief Ungurz and after you've done this is more than happy to zip you out to Splinterskull anytime you ask)

This satisfies so many people on so many levels its just plain silly not to. One: It satisfies the need of 98% of the playing population who are sick to death (literally) of using the Tavern Taxi (/death) to get to Meridia. Two: It satisfies the Devs desire to force people to make the run to Meridia (at least once anyways). Three: It requires next to no coding time on the Devs part as no new mechanic is required (just copy the code from Tangleroot) - the NPC is already there doing nothing else (and happens to be at a perfect loction for such an important job (right at the fork in the paths to the Tower and Meridia gate). Four: It helps sell The Twelve as a location, which is a ghostown these days (lol - we wait almost two years to get inside and then no one goes there at all because there is little reason to!). Five: those folks who like running through the Vale are not inconvienced in the least (just run right by Geri to the gate up the hill). Six: it allows those players who do not have access to teleportation spells to get to Meridia just as easily as if they did. Seven: It satisfies 98% of the playing population who are sick...oh did I say that already....that the vast majority of the paying, err...I mean playing, population want some way of teleporting out there (this "hard wired" way and having it added to the teleport spells lists, etc)

It's as easy as this: Click on Geriatrus. A dialog box comes up saying exactly what he says now if you have not been to Meridia and talked with the Grandmaster there. However if you have spoken with the Grandmaster in Meridia in person, Geri's dialog box changes to, "The Grandmaster has told me you are working to help us in this time of crisis. He has given me special authorization to teleport you to Meridia, if you wish, to continue to your efforts on our behalf" or something similar.

It's really not that difficult - I mean a temporary guy for the live "Invasion" event could do it - why can't Geriatrus??

[silverraven]

People wanted more explorer areas, more "space". Rather than hate on the devs, hate on those of you who demanded more "breadth". They made the bed, so now we have to lie in it.

As said earlier, watch out or the devs'll take the \death damage exemption in taverns away.