Solution to people running out of Traverser StonesFollow

There are 4 Abyssites of Sojourn that increase the amount of time per stone by 3 minutes (total of 42 minutes per stone) and 2 Abyssites of Celerity that reduce stone recharge by 4 hours (to 12 hours per stone).

I would suggest looking into those.

Time isn't kept because it would be exploitable if it weren't.

It's the same sort of reason why the game keeps your character "in" the game for 60 seconds even after you disconnect. It's so you can't use that tactic to avoid getting killed by something attacking you.

And when that's not enough?

Or try not to beat all the new stuff in one day =D, take your time and enjoy it.

You really don't see the potential advantages to being able to log yourself out on the spot and stop your visitant timer?



Wow, where you live sounds like a sh*thole.

I think at the very least, max saved time should scale according to your max stones. At start, you can carry 3 stones and store 4 stones worth of time. Get one abyssite that bumps it to 4 stones on you, store 5 stones worth of time. Get the next one so you can carry 5 stones and you should be able to store 6 stones worth of time.

Having 3 hours banked up is plenty of time to knock out a few quests, or hunt a few NM's on the 30/60 minute timers wihtout having to worry about getting time extensions somewhere along the way. Who knows...maybe we could actually beef up martello defenses and do some Bastion to the point where it lasts longer than just 5 minutes.

Raist

Edited, Sep 22nd 2010 8:34am by BDHERTZER

Here's a suggestion:

Allow transport directly between Abyssea zones without losing lights.

Put a Horst-esque NPC inside each Abyssea area, and have him teleport you to his brother NPC in each Abyssea area, for a large sum of cruor. Obviously the Abysseans have mastered point to point teleportation, so that makes it plausible.

This way, someone who has built up 300 minutes in La Theine can go over to Vunkearl Inlet, without losing that time, and do some fame quests. The second you leave Abyssea the time is lost, but if you can warp within Abyssean zones and keep the lights, it's another opportunity to conserve a bit of time.

Personally, I think NM's should drop traverser stones. To everyone, not just the first person who touched the mob. They would drop into key items like abysite or atma and you'd still be limited to holding 3 (or 4/5 if you have those abysites) This would help because if you're in an exp pt, you're already getting TE, so you don't need the stones. If you['re hunting NM's, you have a chance at getting a stone to drop to counter the time you're losing in the zone. As it is now, i have to go get in an exp pt to max my time to 120, then go to a different zone and waste that time hunting nm's or doing fame quests. The jobs I want to level are maxed and merits are capped, I don't want to have to level another job I have no interest in, just to stock up on time and not waste exp. I want to use my maxed jobs and go have fun fighting nms, not juggle and manage time.

Quests could also reward you with a stone, but the quest would have to have at least a 12hr cooldown and not take any longer than 10mins to complete OR have a ~25% drop rate and still only take 5-10mins. DO NOT use your ridiculous drop rate on specific seals. For example, I wasted 13stacks of sausage (156 trades) to get my 8 pup seals, don't use that drop rate.

Another option, to reward those and encourage others to participate in bastion, upon successfully holding back the raiding enemies, and winning the battle, everyone with a tag who got some exp, gets a traverser stone dropped to them. I'm personally surprised noone has found a way to get TE from bastion yet. I think it's probably because so few people do it, because it is a waste of stones/time. Very few people are doing the ops and the bastion martellos are always under 5%, people still don't know to fight the mobs away from the martello and it's still just a smash and grab for the enemy mobs. They come in, kill all npc's, take martello, noone gets exp and the 4 people doing it are asking for a raise, all in 90secs. If people knew that you'd get a stone upon winning, many more people would be doing it.

Since cruor is so easy to obtain, maybe make a traverser stone purchasable for 1000 resistance credits. This will encourage bastion, and not make them overly abundant, at least for a while.