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Balloons

Discussion in 'Wishlist Requests' started by ConjurerDragon, Mar 2, 2023.

  1. ConjurerDragon

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    Currently there are two types of balloons in game:
    Observation Balloons where you use the ladder to climb up and can look around and
    Teleportation Ballonos where you use the ladder to teleport to another destination.

    Would it be possible to somehow restore the "observation" utility to the "Teleportation Balloons"?

    Like, e.g. divide the ladder in two pieces like click bottom disk or lower half of ladder = teleport or click upper half of ladder = climb up to look around.
     
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    I think this would confuse even the most experienced players like "I don't know why the same balloon has two different behaviors when I interact with it".

    Interacting with the torch after climbing up the ladder may be more reasonable for the teleport feature.
     
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    plus the "observation" balloon cost those of us what bought em an arm and a leg...
     
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    Which for a bridge troll would quickly regrow...

    However seriously spoken - allowing the "teleport" balloons to be able to be used as "observation" balloons, too does not make the "observation" balloons anyhow different. They still woulld be able to do everything they could do before. Climb up and observe the vicinty.
     
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    It would eliminate their uniqueness and lower their value.
     
    Barugon, May 18, 2023
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    Something to keep in mind: Adding that extra utility would come with a cost. The teleportation balloons have special qualities that include bobbing up and down (like boats on the water) and rotating based on the direction of the wind. This is not the "elevator" tech that allows players to move along withe an object along a path. Both the bobbing and rotating qualities would need to be removed in order for them to be able to allow players to stand in their baskets. The balloons would become static and unmoving, like street signs.
     
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    Oh. I never noticed that before. Had to look at a teleport balloon in Spite to see it for the first time that they actually sway in the wind... o.k. removing that bit of realism would be a loss that IMO outweighs the utility of being able to use them for both.
     
    ConjurerDragon, May 19, 2023
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