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This is an idea I had in my head when I was watching Ep III last night and it would go something like this.

When out in the wild calling a vehicle takes a minute. Then say every level on camp reduces the wait time by 10 seconds until it reaches 0.

Am I way off base here? I just thought it would be a way to bring back some of the usefulness of camps and make us more then just creature harvestors.

Posted in the Scout forum but relevant to rangers as well

clicky

/smile

Before the great camp nerf of '04, you could not call your pet or mount AT ALL in the field unless you were in a camp, and there was no wait. As it stands right now, if you put up a camp, there is still no wait, but rather than make camp, people would rather wait the 15 seconds.

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Melak wrote:
This is an idea I had in my head when I was watching Ep III last night and it would go something like this.

When out in the wild calling a vehicle takes a minute. Then say every level on camp reduces the wait time by 10 seconds until it reaches 0.

Am I way off base here? I just thought it would be a way to bring back some of the usefulness of camps and make us more then just creature harvestors.

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Oh wait - I see - you propose to raise the wait time from 15 seconds to 1 minute. And then have the level of the camp subtract from that time. I still see this as making the lower level camps a lot less useful while not really adding much to our higher level camps.

Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Carbiner
Bloodfin

Message Edited by Iseult on 06-05-2005 01:04 PM

The only thing that would make them useful is a modular design, including radar concealment modules.

I think that idea would never go through, because of the amount of people who would definitely complain about a 45 second increase in their own wait time for another profession's ability to gain usefulness (again.)

If they increase the wild call time to one minute, people will raise hell, so it'll never happen. :/

I just carry around a crate of Basic Camps to drop just to pop my swoop up fast in dangerous areas.

Message Edited by DesktopSaki on 06-05-2005 03:28 PM

So, by making things inconvinient, people will love camps again? I don't think so. It was great when they finally removed the requirement to have a camp to call vehicles. Why should our camp's only (well, besides healing) functionality be as a garage?

To me, that would be like using a SWAT team as School Crossing Guards. Sure, they can get the job done, but it is a waste of resources.

Oh yeah...thanks for coming up with new ideas. They are welcome, while not always embraced! Plus, it gives us something to talk/think about.

Message Edited by Calculus_Entropy on 06-09-2005 08:38 AM

Message Edited by SioBabble on 06-09-2005 03:56 PM

like the others, I'll say no. But, like Calc said (and I'm sure the others were thinking) we ALWAYS appreciate imput. Sometimes, new players weren't around for the way things were, or they haven't had the time to read all the ideas that've already been given and we vets tend to sound condecending. I assure you, we love hearing imput and any and all ideas that you may have. Some we may not agree with, some we may, but we always enjoy intelligent discussion.

So keep typing those ideas up as they come into your head. You may suggest the next brilliant idea that we all talk about for months.