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Isildur	Tue 10-Nov-15 11:22 AM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 5969 posts

#61470, "along the same lines as portal sickness..."

What about changing the way the "tell" command responds to someone being in Organia or places like it?

I feel like people often send tells to enemies they wouldn't otherwise talk to just to "check" if they're in there. It's kind of silly.

How about when a "tell" is sent to someone in a no-tell place it appears to the sender to have gone through normally but the recipient never receives it.

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The problem with Organia, Kstatida, 11-Nov-15 03:46 AM, #5

This was already changed recently, Destuvius

, 10-Nov-15 11:23 AM, #1

RE: This was already changed recently, Isildur, 10-Nov-15 02:09 PM, #2

RE: This was already changed recently, Umiron

, 10-Nov-15 02:51 PM, #3

RE: This was already changed recently, Isildur, 10-Nov-15 03:19 PM, #4

They could be in Organia or, Murphy, 11-Nov-15 12:55 PM, #6

Kstatida	Wed 11-Nov-15 03:46 AM
Member since 12th Feb 2015 2214 posts

#61475, "The problem with Organia"
In response to Reply #0

is that the person in there is actually sleeping, hence the echo. The concept is the same as WoT Tel'aran'rhiod, as I see it.

Inferno is another matter though.

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Destuvius	Tue 10-Nov-15 11:23 AM
Member since 08th Oct 2013 1012 posts

#61471, "This was already changed recently"
In response to Reply #0

The return message is different than it was in the past

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Isildur	Tue 10-Nov-15 02:09 PM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 5969 posts

#61472, "RE: This was already changed recently"
In response to Reply #1

It was changed, but isn't it still obvious someone is there? It's something like "they can't hear you". Even if it's the same echo as when someone is sleeping, if the guy is "sleeping" for long enough you can pretty sure he's not actually sleeping.

Plus if your tell *does* go through then you know the guy is *not* there.

I guess the down side to my change would be that people could actually receive tells and then deny it and claim they were in organia.

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Umiron	Tue 10-Nov-15 02:51 PM
Member since 29th May 2017 1511 posts

#61473, "RE: This was already changed recently"
In response to Reply #2

My concern is that this provides some tactical advantage to not RPing with people. If an enemy (or even an unknown) sends me a tell, now all of a sudden there's strategy in ignoring them because they might think I'm in Organia (or wherever) and blow 15 minutes checking.

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Isildur	Tue 10-Nov-15 03:19 PM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 5969 posts

#61474, "RE: This was already changed recently"
In response to Reply #3

Good point.

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Murphy	Wed 11-Nov-15 12:54 PM
Member since 30th Dec 2010 1639 posts

#61482, "They could be in Organia or"
In response to Reply #2
Edited on Wed 11-Nov-15 12:55 PM

in certain shrines, or in certain other place that blocks communication.

Or they could be deafened. I recently had a permanent duration deafness. Fun times.

It's not all that obvious where they are if they can't hear you.

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