Starting area warps

[ZubMessiah]

This may or may not have been posted before, but I'd very much like the automatic teleportation from the starting area removed in favor of two warps that let you either go to the map menu or start in your last known location. Either would go to the intro thing, so this would also give people a chance to finish leveling before they're warped there.

This would, like the current room, only be for when the server is restarted, to avoid having to be the first one to zone and instantly dying when your party was fighting a five levels higher encounter.

A lot of servers have it, and it works well for them.

[undeadsteak]

We had something like this before, an OOC room... Caused server to lag, i believe, people AFKed there and just sat there chatting

[ZubMessiah]

I don't see how it can cause more lag than any other area where people can group up.
How about an automatic kick system in the room? If you stay for X minutes you get booted, regardless of whether you type or not?
The point is I don't like having to wait 5 minutes for my party to log back on if the server happens to crash just becuase the big bad ogre wizard is camping the door.

[Scavar]

I'm not sure it's really that big of a problem to require the room being redone into such a state. When the server crashes you are pretty much going to have your entire party back within five minutes of it happening. It would add a lot of excess bull to RP stuff I think.


It would cause more lag though if people just sat around in there as it's where EVERYONE would be coming in when they log on after a restart.

[Konchuu]

It’s really not a bad idea. It is always a pain to die because of a server crash. Still if obsidian could fix the reason that the server crashes in the first place, bothersome stuff like this would not be needed to be implemented.

[Saulus]

The room isn't changing. It's done for performance reasons.

[Dune]

Just as I thought. The room is there to cause less lag for the server.

[GodBeastX]

This is what would happen. People would login, then hang out there. People loading in would now have to load in with 20 people standing around them, etc. People would play around in there, act retarded etc. Honestly, if people were more on point, it would have worked fine with selection of place to go, but nobody is on point.