Erudin Translocator

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Fafrd

Dalayan Beginner
Don't get me wrong, I love taking the boats. When I'm going to Kaladim, I generally prefer coaching to Freeport and sneaking to the docks via the sewers rather than porting to Underhill. But in the event of the boats getting screwed up; something that seems to be happening often - and don't take this as a bash, because I realize they must be a pain in the ass to keep unbugged, judging by how often Verant had to fix them on Live - I enjoy having the second option of a teleporter.

Is there any reason a translocator isn't available for Erudin? It strikes me as perfectly canon with the gameworld; Newport and Erudin already have an allied boat system going and the erudites are the kings of magic. And there are so many nice hunting grounds over there. It's just a pain to be stuck in an overcamped Yaralith, Mielech, etc because the boats are stuck at the zoneline. Or missing out on an adept raid because they keep kicking you back and forth between ocean and dock for 30+ minutes. Heck, even a special 2pp dock-to-dock translocator would be nice to have around as backup.
 
There are a pair of gnomish translocators in the Erinal basement.

But they did not talk to me at level 18. :(
 
Kjia and Maimai said:
As a comprimise there could be a TLer who ports you onto the boat..
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It's not the waiting for the boat that's bothersome, really. I'm fine with waiting 5 minutes for it to show up. It's when the boats themself freeze up or don't work that an alternative is nice. It's just frustrating when you get on the boat and it just freezes two feet from the zone line and stays like that for 10+ minutes, or bumps you back and forth between docks when you're trying to reach a group and no ports are available.

This happened last night when I was trying to get to an adept raid and spent literally half an hour zone-bumping back and forth without enough time to jump off and gate. And then when the "fixed" message went out, the boats ended up just stalling or coming up on the shore and staying there.
 
The boats are a bit out of sync too... Last night pulling into Erudin docks the boat I was on rammed through an idle boat in the docks. Everyone had a good suprise as we all ramped through the back end of the idle boat. :)

I love the boats
 
I really don't think there will ever be a good alternative to boats. If there is ever an insta-travel system, then the only use for the boats would be to go to the middle zone (such as Storm Sea). Then boats will hold no major significance since people will stop traveling those routs (Storm Sea is actually a pretty nice hunting zone for around lvl 18-20). Storm Sea would become a quieter zone than it already is (at least the last time I was there).
 
Wiz said:
Beacuse then we might as well just remove the Erudin -> Newport boat?
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Well... make it teleport to somewhere else on Odus so it still takes some time to run wherever and it isn't an insta-port deal? I dunno, if you think it'll unbalance travel that much then it shouldn't go in. Just kind of irritating to have a continent full of good hunting that's cut off from the main hubs what feels like half the time.
 
From an RP stance I can see it also in case Kaezul comes back and starts winning again. Erudin was their first refuge and the place they'd be most likely to flee to again if something awful should happen, they set up storm's around the island so that he couldn't get in but if they had a translocator system set up then Kaezul could possibly use it.
 
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