Don’t Use TURN on a House Pin to return
Posted15 April 2017
Last Updated On20 September 2018
ByNewsby
GM Retser reminds us to exit normally after using a House Pin via TURN to return where you came from. Don’t turn it again.
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Category: Cooperative Houses of Elanthia (CHE/Great Houses)
Topic: Interhouse Discussion
Date: 03/31/2017 12:56 AM CDT
From: GS4-ELIDI
Subj: Annex transport update to House pins!
Thanks to GM Retser (who you all know and love), you can now TURN your house pin from most rooms in town and be transported to your House annex in the same realm! Simply TURN the pin again to return to your starting point. And it’s unlimited!
(NOTE: If you try to exit the annex area, you’ll be automatically transported back to where you entered from since this is not a shortcut to anywhere. Also if the room currently blocks magical transport IN or OUT, this will be blocked as well — sorry Vaalorians!)
All new annexes built after this release must have their locations reviewed and approved for inclusion in this teleportation system.
Big thanks to GM Retser for coding it, GM Wyorm for QC’ing it, and GM Coase, GM Sleken, GM Galene, and GM Haliste for approvals to make this possible!
~Elidi~
Date: 03/31/2017 08:45 AM CDT
From: VICIMER
Subj: Re: Annex transport update to House pins!
Very cool.
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A quick flick of Wyrom’s wrist sends a dagger into flight!
The thorny barrier surrounding you blocks Wyrom’s attack!
One of the vines surrounding you lashes out at Wyrom, driving a thorn into his skin! Wyrom flinches slightly.
Date: 03/31/2017 09:16 AM CDT
From: KRAKII
Subj: Re: Annex transport update to House pins!
Having recently had occasion to get lost in trying to find the Solhaven, Icemule, and Four Winds locker annexes, I thank you for this addition. 🙂
Date: 04/05/2017 09:06 PM CDT
From: JL177
Subj: Re: Annex transport update to House pins!
I bugged this in game as well:
I used my FWI transport to go to FWI. I walked/ran to my House locker as one would do before this new update. When I exit the Sovyn arch I go here instead of outside the arch and into the hallway:
[Cobblestone Path]
The path meanders along, lit only by the pale moonlight, as neither lantern nor home flank the cobblestone path here. The sweet scent of wildflowers wafts across the cool evening breeze. In the distance, the calming lull of crickets can be heard, the sound mingled with the intermittent hoot of a lone owl. You also see a red wagon with a small sign on it.
Date: 04/06/2017 08:33 AM CDT
From: GS4-ELIDI
Subj: Re: Annex transport update to House pins!
>>I used my FWI transport to go to FWI. I walked/ran to my House locker as one would do before this new update. When I exit the Sovyn arch I go here instead of outside the arch and into the hallway:
This should be fixed. Thanks for letting me know!
~Elidi~
Date: 04/06/2017 11:18 AM CDT
From: LADYFLEUR
Subj: Re: Annex transport update to House pins!
This is a great quality of life feature. Thanks for the update!
Date: 04/06/2017 06:40 PM CDT
From: VUWH60A
Subj: Re: Annex transport update to House pins!
Great update, thanks!
Askip
😀
Date: 04/14/2017 05:43 PM CDT
From: GS4-RETSER
Subj: CHE Pins Update
Hey Everyone, due to an issue that came up the TURN function to RETURN to where you entered from has been blocked.
You will still be able to return to where you entered from when TURNing the pin by exiting out the new arch/door/portal.
Retser, ASGM
Date: 05/16/2017 02:45 PM CDT
From: ARCHSENEX
Subj: Re: Annex transport update to House pins!
I realize I’m late to the thread and all, but I just found out about this recently. HUGE thank you, it makes FWI locker visits about 75% less aggravating
Date: 05/18/2018 05:14 PM CDT
From: CLAIRELROJ
Subj: Re: CHE Pins Update
1) This is one my favorite QOL updates to have been put in place during my five-year absence.
2) It looks really weird when you’re in the room someone pin-transported out of, and they return, and you see “Name walks through an orange House whatver curtain” (or whatever the exit for their annex is) as their return movement text even though there is no curtain in the room you’re in. Is there a way that messaging can be changed?
Date: 05/19/2018 02:19 PM CDT
From: RATHBONER
Subj: Re: CHE Pins Update
>2) It looks really weird when you’re in the room someone pin-transported out of, and they return, and you see “Name walks through an orange House whatver curtain” (or whatever the exit for their annex is) as their return movement text even though there is no curtain in the room you’re in. Is there a way that messaging can be changed?
Some critter movements do this too. You get the message as if you were in a different room to the one you are in. It is annoying.
Date: 05/21/2018 09:16 PM CDT
From: GS4-ELIDI
Subj: Re: CHE Pins Update
>It looks really weird when you’re in the room someone pin-transported out of, and they return, and you see “Name walks through an orange House whatver curtain” (or whatever the exit for their annex is) as their return movement text even though there is no curtain in the room you’re in. Is there a way that messaging can be changed?
Can you send me a log where this is happening? I did some testing today and was not able to reproduce it. What I saw when the player turned the pin to leave and then came back to the same room:
GN>
XXX taps her pin and slowly fades away.
GN>
A troublesome tropical spirit hurriedly flits out of sight.
GN>
XXX just arrived.
~Elidi~
Date: 05/21/2018 09:16 PM CDT
From: GS4-ELIDI
Subj: Re: CHE Pins Update
>It looks really weird when you’re in the room someone pin-transported out of, and they return, and you see “Name walks through an orange House whatver curtain” (or whatever the exit for their annex is) as their return movement text even though there is no curtain in the room you’re in. Is there a way that messaging can be changed?
Can you send me a log where this is happening? I did some testing today and was not able to reproduce it. What I saw when the player turned the pin to leave and then came back to the same room:
GN>
XXX taps her pin and slowly fades away.
GN>
A troublesome tropical spirit hurriedly flits out of sight.
GN>
XXX just arrived.
~Elidi~
Date: 05/22/2018 05:44 AM CDT
From: CLAIRELROJ
Subj: Re: CHE Pins Update
It happened in the River’s Rest Town Commons (and I believe the person was coming out of House Paupers’ annex). I’m guessing the issue might have to do with how the exits from House Annexes are coded in that particular town, more than it does with the pins?
Date: 05/23/2018 10:30 AM CDT
From: GS4-ELIDI
Subj: Re: CHE Pins Update
Transport messaging back to town should be working properly now.
~Elidi~
