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

[Kimble]

Normally, if you aren't even cleaving for exp, you will cleave with your desired lights capped or near cap (azure, amber, pearl) so you can just destroy red chests and not even need it. Oddly enough, this is the first time ive even heard anyone complain about chest in cleaves. Other than not getting enough/being able to get rid of them.

[kingfury]

Yep that's true about the lights, but technically, one can start Cleaving or mass killing by other means for time extensions once Azure is capped and then just build Pearl or any other lights along the way and still see valuable blue pyxis. Since Azure is the quickest to cap, in this scenario, red pyxis could still be used for a good while until everything's capped.

I'm usually farming for TE's over anything else, while the rest of my party is hunting down key items and so forth so my frustrations over the process stem from my experiences trying to mass kill then rummage through dozens of chest in a timely manner. Although, even when amongst my party members while mass killing, there are times when the process slows down killing due to the necessary rummaging. Again, I'm not saying it's not possible to check chest at a decent pace and find what you're looking for here, because we do it everyday, but only that the process can be improved.

[Kimble]

Can, but doesnt need to be, and rather they use their time on something more useful/fun.

[kingfury]

^^ Good thing it's a suggestion for the Devs then /

[Kimble]

Right, so, i guess the rest of us shouldn't say anything (unless its supporting your idea) because this is clearly not a place for discussion.

[TybudX]

No topic with Kingfury is ever open for discussion.

[CrystalWeapon]

Can, but doesnt need to be, and rather they use their time on something more useful/fun.

While we would like to implement fun things into the game, we have found that it is currently more difficult than we had originally anticipated. We have no plans to implement fun into the game at this time. We appologize for the inconvenience.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

On the topic of improving the chest's functionality, if you're going to suggest a "/destroypyxis <t>" command you should also include a "/checkpyxis <t>". If I were programming it, I would use a main and sub command for this.

Main command:
/pyxis

Sub command:
open (launches the guessing game)
check (displays the content of the chest)
destroy (destroys the chest)
key (uses a key on the chest provided you have one in your inventory)

^ Just makes it more generic and reusable provided you want to add more functionality to it later.

While it might seem like a good user friendly idea... I'm not so sure I want to see info displayed above every chest. Depending on how they would render it, it could cause some lag issues when dealing with a ton of chests.

As for self organizing chests, it would be nice, but I don't see them giving a positive response on that one. If you add collision detection upon spawn for chests it could go wrong if not tested thoroughly. Say you pull the monsters in a tight spot and kill them, there's always the possibility that the chests could fan out up a rockface, up a tree, under the map, etc... Now I'm not saying it can't be done, but this seems like something they would come back with and say was "too difficult to implement."

I would like to see the first, I don't care for the second, and I'm indifferent about the third.

[Eeek]

Normally, if you aren't even cleaving for exp, you will cleave with your desired lights capped or near cap (azure, amber, pearl) so you can just destroy red chests and not even need it. Oddly enough, this is the first time ive even heard anyone complain about chest in cleaves. Other than not getting enough/being able to get rid of them.

^ This ...

No topic with Kingfury is ever open for discussion.

And this.

[JovialRat]

i like the drawings. good job as always

[kingfury]

@ Kimble:

lol say wha?! You stated your opinion at the end of our discussion, and I simply pointed out that it's a good thing the Devs actually want suggestions about possible improvements, that's all.^^

We just had a 5+ post discussion lol I didn't bash or put down your opinions anywhere. I love discussions lol. Never said anyone has to agree with anything, and I haven't bashed the handful of folks on the 1st page for saying they believe the suggestion wasn't really needed. Go look! ^^