saving pen

[requiem]

Why not make this item unlimited uses a day? I know there are ways to acquire more than 1 but this just makes it more useful and convenient. only thing I could see go wrong is that it will lag the servers if people start saving after every area transition or every time they find a UR/bur, but I don't know if it would even cause lag at all thats why I am making this post. It would be very handy specially on those hell runs, and having 3 charges is sometimes just not enough unless you have a couple extra. and I am not too keen on wasting a ring charge to save =/. Just an idea let me know if its feasible.

[FunkySwerve]

Yup, it's feasible. We just didn't want people spamming it unnecessarily. May either make unlimited or add a SIMTools command.
Funky

[Delfestra Ruinvorn]

I have to wonder, though, why people can't just rest? Or maybe make it 5 uses. Really, I don't think its a problem, and I have meleers and casters both.

[cathedralmaster]

delfestra said:

Really, I don't think its a problem, and I have meleers and casters both.

But how often do you bank, Delf?

[shadow66]

If it does get upgraded can we also have it set to be id'd for new characters? It's not that big a deal to pay 100 gold to do it but it would be nice if you didn't have to.

[iamaqt]

You can always carry more than one save pen as well.....

-qt

[Grogbot]

requiem said:

Why not make this item unlimited uses a day? [snip]...Just an idea let me know if its feasible.

Just FYI, back when I were a'lad, the pen was unlimited and further saved the entire vault.

Of course there were far far far fewer players & toons back then.

Grog "I wore an onion on my belt, as it was the style at the time"

[Delfestra Ruinvorn]

I've banked plenty, Cath, though I do not do it lately due to my artifacts. Indeed, it is easy to carry two pens, or switch pens in a group...or it'd even be easy to upgrade the limit to 5x per day.

Still, the idea remains - pens are limited, according to the pen, because saving continually would be a burden on the servers. And people save for the stupidest of reasons - for exp, for tags...why burden the servers if there's no real reason to?

[alandrian]

Hmm I am not sure. Actually I rarely save if i dont bank or have finished a trade/lootsplit. But if I bank and find a lot good items in a row and dont play as a caster it might be a problem. But actually its no problem to create some lowbies chars transfer their saving pen and delete them afterward. According to the 'If its not scripted around rule' its ok to do so. The pen is tradable after all. I think the possibility to save via scry is quite nice. PPL will spam it less i guess as a quickslottable item if you have to go though a dialogue. And it would get rid of another item then .

[FunkySwerve]

Its a lot easier to get new pens than that.
Funky

[alandrian]

Yes I know that you get a pen when you enter town. Hmm actually you just can drop your pen at sage go to town and pick the old pen up again afterwards.

[requiem]

would be neat on the scry maybe add an option to save everyones character on the server when you use the scry? Thats if anything happens to it.

[FunkySwerve]

Not doable. As already noted, the save pen used to save every character on the server, though it was only single use per rest when it did that. It also bugged shifters every time. The single save was a simple alternative, though there are certainly other viable possibilities.
Funky