Sure, but in the time it takes to have people revive (up to 3 minutes) you could be finishing the level.

Well here's another idea, what if after the timer was up, a player had to run by and do the whole "activate your body" thing that old health revives did? It wouldn't split health but it'd prevent random revives and require one person to always be alive and able to pick people up.

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I like the idea of backtracking because people who don't want to get up have to make players go back for them, and if the player is so far ahead in the level they won't want to go back for them. This is a good thing because if players are moving fast then you'll need to use a spark of life to catch up, or wait for them to step on a party button and get you up. This also puts more emphasis on teamwork, and a player who is left behind won't suddenly revive a minute later and then have to make the party wait a full minute of walking for them to catch up.

A good way to think of it is that reviving has to have a penalty, and that penalty is always some sort of resource. Originally, it was team health, or if you were all down, paid energy. Then, it was rarities and energy. This proposes to use time as a penalty, which is more than enough to keep players from wanting to remain downed.

I think the only issue with this would be alt dragging since you can just wait 3 minutes and then get them back up, but with instanced loot now, alt dragging is not very easy to do anyways. I'd assume loot wouldn't spawn while players are downed either, like the current system.

I guess what I should rephrase that as is I like the idea of backtracking as a penalty. It's not really an obstacle but it's annoying. However, if you're a lower tiered or skilled player, you will go out of your way to go back and rescue a player that might be better than you. Similarly, if you're a high skilled player, you can just pick 'em up at the next party button if going back takes too long.

Players hate waiting. Players hate wasting time. So, what better way to penalize poor performance than to make them wait and/or waste their time? Since the game still runs on a "you do well your team does well" mentality, someone being down doesn't negatively affect your performance, and reviving them doesn't have any negative impact on you.

I'd prefer optional backtracking over a player being forcibly down forever. I also prefer a team backtracking for one player rather than a team waiting for one player to walk a minute and a half of time to catch up with them (imagine: you go down at the start of a lichenous lair. Then your timer comes back and your team is over halfway through, and you have to run to catch up to them. By the time they're at the elevator you won't even be halfway there).

Certain levels have various forms of backtracking anyways (ex: D25 of FSC, D26 of Crimson Chaos), and with party buttons teleporting players to you it relieves a party of going back across hazardous traps to revive someone when they can all just stand on a party button and teleport the body to them.

o.O why are you so sensitive

Hasn't the suggestions forum always been like this though? Single posts from random people, with comments from a few nitpicky regulars?

Yeah we're already good on A, I just never saw Fangel as a special cronus bud.

More than anything I'm pointing out that your "suggestions forum experience" is pretty much the same as everyone else's. There have been some notable extreme examples (luguiru) of this type of behavior (schizoid creative stuff), and I think that a LOT of the people who have posted regularly to this forum have been in a similar boat of futile creative exercises. You can post as much as you want, but the chances of having an actual impact on SK have, historically, been astronomical, and I don't actually know Fangel but I'd be surprised if he/she's got a much better shot of direct impact than you do.