Image Designer Archive
Thread: My 2 Cents on the wonderful id timer :)
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Veldcath
Fri May 21, 2004 5:03 pm
#66
Numtini wrote:
Hey kudos, now go and spend 120 hours mastering it. I had to do 240!
Rubbish.
While it was nothing like as easy asit got with all the food and buffs,it was hardly 120 hours, much less 240. Why don't you claim that it took you 500 or 10,000? Check my account date, I was there at server creation and did the first half of ID under the original rules: no buffs, no food, no nothing. Same time you're talking about.
It was easy. It was a few hours of clicking a night and very casual. It was grinding to be sure, but it was sure easier than tailoring. And it was far more involving than dropping to desktop to post here between IDs. Life under the timer is nothing near as easy as it was at release. I've done both.
This entire reply was written while I was waiting on a timer. If that doesn't say something, I don't know what does.
If you were quick on your feet, you realized that you could line up all your ID windows in the old system so that all the buttons you clicked over and over and over again ALSO lined right up and all you'd have to do is ctrl-up-arrow, return, click-click-click-click-click... repeat. That went about a thirdthe speed of actually using the macros. Fast enough to easily overwhelm your mind doing anything more impressive than hairstyle (mind-free change, 6 xp when done on self) It would've been even faster if you had something that would click the mouse for you at fast, regular intervals (like every 0.1 second)...
-V
Sundown6
Fri May 21, 2004 5:12 pm
#67
Numtini wrote:
Hey kudos, now go and spend 120 hours mastering it. I had to do 240!
Rubbish.
While it was nothing like as easy asit got with all the food and buffs,it was hardly 120 hours, much less 240.
Life under the timer is nothing near as easy as it was at release. I've done both.
This entire reply was written while I was waiting on a timer. If that doesn't say something, I don't know what does.
I'm thinking she's counting the soliciting of business, the roleplay surrounding, and just hanging about in places with the thought "I'm going to level image designer" as part of the "grind". Because clicking through Image Designer boxes certainly doesn't take 120 hours on launch.
MutantSquirrel
Sat May 22, 2004 6:24 am
#68
Nouva-
So who cares that it took you 240 hours to master ID. I would gladly trade 240 hours of delivery missions vs. 120 hours of doing absolutely nothing but watching a timer tick down. Please don't be so closed minded on this issue. Open your eyes and see that the complaints are not truly against the amount of time it takes to master the profession as it is how **edit**ING BORING it is to master. Tell me honestly, if i told you had to either stare at a clock for an hour in a plain white room, able to do nothing else ... or walk aimlessly around a mall for 2 hours without going into any stores ... which would you do. Sure both aren't necessarily fun, but the 2 hours in the mall would go by much quicker and be more interesting than watching the clock for an hour. You see, your arguments have no validity.
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