Spiral Knights - Ready Room/Haven tweak

Ready Room/Haven tweak

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Wed, 10/17/2012 - 21:19

Likal

I'm not sure how popular the Ready Room is with other players, but I find it extremely helpful with my slow computer. Because of how busy Haven can be, it can take me a long time to load back into the game after finishing a mission, so I'd like to see the Ready Room made more available to players. Right now, it can only be accessed the first time you load into the game, and there's not much you can do there other than leave. So I propose a few options.

-Add an "Enter Ready Room" button.
Just in the same way we have a "Return to Haven" button when not in Haven, being able to return to the Ready Room at any time would be a welcome addition.

-Add an option to return to the Ready Room instead of Haven after a mission.
Like I said earlier, the Ready Room is much easier to load than Haven is, so being able to return there would be a much lesser strain to slower computers. Such a feature would be simple to add to the Options menu.

-Let us craft items in the Ready Room.
There's an alchemy machine right there! Let me use it!

-Allow access to /2 (the trade channel) from our Ready Room.

-When entering Haven from the Ready Room, let us choose which server.
It would also be appreciated if, when looking at the server list, if we could get a ping number from the servers in addition to a population rating.

Wed, 10/17/2012 - 23:12

Addy

+1 on most of this. I'm not

+1 on most of this. I'm not sure about trade channel since it's like.. your nice, quiet home, but man I wish I could go there after missions. My laptop (yes, laptop) is not the best for gaming and on a busy day with Haven, the game nearly crashes on returning from a mission. D:

Wed, 10/17/2012 - 23:36

Likal

Also laptop

Yeah, I'm also on a laptop, which is why I'm tossing these suggestions out there. I have just as much trouble loading back into Haven, especially during holiday events like now.

Thu, 10/18/2012 - 04:34

Thunderbog

Relogging does fine, but staying in a empty room seems solitude but for peace and quiet.

I like.

Thu, 10/18/2012 - 19:22

Yttriu

1 sheep... 2 sheep... 4923 sheep...

-First of all, it's called Ready Room and not the Ready and Already Warmed-Up Room for a reason. Second, you could start a locked mission lobby if you don't like Haven.

-How is this supposed to be set up or arranged on the screen? The only way I can picture it seems messy and unnecessary to me.

-There is an Alchemy machine in Town Square, Arcade, Mission lobbies, Clockwork cities, Guild halls, and two in the Baazar. Necessary? I think not.

-This isn't important until you have expanded a bit on my above quandaries.

-Not entirely important considering most people don't actually care what server they end up in, and if it's important then server change is easily accessed.

Thu, 10/18/2012 - 22:13

Klipik

how does this happen

I made a thread exactly like this and it got completely shot down and i got told I was lazy. So... +1 :)

Thu, 10/18/2012 - 22:19

Luguiru

The mission lobby.

Take out the NPCs, leave the crafting machine and arsenal station (even though having that there to begin with is useless since you can change equipment freely in there).

Elevator takes you to Haven instead of into a mission.

There you go.

Fri, 10/19/2012 - 00:46

Addy

Yttriu, it's less a matter of

Yttriu, it's less a matter of "not liking Haven" and more a matter of "my computer will sometimes lock up when I'm sent to a crowded Haven." But I do understand. It'd be nice to not be auto-sent to Haven at the very least. If I forget to run to the Bazaar it's sometimes a nightmare getting back to what I was doing.

Fri, 10/19/2012 - 04:33

Dukeplatypus

Simple, make the ready room

Simple, make the ready room part of Haven and make a hall to it somewhere (garrison, maybe?). Therefore you get all the haven benefits of /2 and loading there after missions.

Fri, 10/19/2012 - 08:44

Darkbrady

Adding "Return to Ready Room"

Adding "Return to Ready Room" to the esc option next to "Return to Haven" would be good, but other than that, nothing else really needs to be done, especially not crafting in the Ready Room, as that's been discussed before.

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