[dev 1015] Adding Visual Identifiers for a Pyxis: "Pyxis Labels" and More

[kingfury]

the issue of difiiculty communicating to the group keeps coming up, so I have to ask.. just what is the difficulty?

When we do cleaves, we specify what lights we want, others are ignored. Before unwanted boxes were just left to rot. Now, the key whore can just destroy the ones we don't want. When we have the big temp items one, we just say "temps in 5.. use them if you got 'em", count down 5 ticks on the clock and pop them.

The only thing we have any real interaction over is the gold, and even then it's more just "XXX job in pool", or "<key item> roll for it". Lottable items are immediately sent to pool. Sometimes people are looking for specific augmented items, and if they make it known they are after it the box opener lets them know when they show up, else they are free for people to grab to NPC them. The openers usually get them first b/c they are there with the chest of course.

Sounds like maybe you guys are just over-complicating what should be a non-issue.

-----------------
Y'know it never dawned on me to mention it until now after reading this post that folks Fell Cleave differently lol. Okay, to be very clear, I'm referencing the 2 hour pyxis and Time extension pyxis specifically. Both these chest are blue and can manage to find ways to scramble the ability to direct a player, say the Cleaver in the party, to it's specific where-a-bouts just by saying something like, "It's behind me" when there's could be 8+ blue pyxis behind that person.

If someone in your party doesn't have keys and wants to help check the loads of chest around (to save time for the key person), they will often say things like, "TE here" or "2hr here". All the while the key person or the Cleaver is most likely checking for the same chest on the other side of the pile. Now, I personally like to Fell Cleave with my 2hr goin to make quick work of the massive pile of enemies, but that's just how I like to do it. It's not necessary at all in terms of functionality, but it does save lots of time. Because of this fact, I hunt 1st for my next 2hr chest after each cleave. When there's 15+ blue chest all crowded around you, the folks in the party usually jump in to help with locating that 2hr chest whether they have keys or not. If they find it before I do, my question to them is "where?". The best a player can do right now is try to visually describe the location of the chest amongst the pile, or just stand on it.

Rather than take that time to try and detail a verbal location to the chest or try and position one's self on top of a pyxis, the suggestion aims to "visually flag" any pyxis that has importance so that every party member can see. That's the improved communication I speak of.