Opening and closing doors...

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Unknown2008-11-30 22:08:42
Have it cost a half-second of balance pretty-please?
Xenthos2008-11-30 22:11:29
QUOTE(Azoth Nae @ Nov 30 2008, 05:08 PM) 588241
Have it cost a half-second of balance pretty-please?

... then you would never get out of a room.

Picture this. You open the door, and lose balance. The other person there has balance, and closes it. You wait half a second, get balance back, open it... and you're off balance again. In the meantime, they get balance back and close it again.

It'd be just as easy to trigger (add it to a queue that waits until you have balance/eq back), only you'd be stuck. And pretty much screwed if there's any other enemy in the room.
Ilyarin2008-11-30 22:12:43
pff just have closing a door cost balance and opening it not.
Xenthos2008-11-30 22:13:53
QUOTE(Ilyarin @ Nov 30 2008, 05:12 PM) 588247
pff just have closing a door cost balance and opening it not.

You do realize it generally takes less work to close a door than to open it, right? tongue.gif
Unknown2008-11-30 22:20:38
Hmm. So have opening cost half a second and closing it a whole second? It's just silly the way it is now.
Noola2008-11-30 22:29:13
What's the dealio?
Xenthos2008-11-30 22:30:22
QUOTE(Noola @ Nov 30 2008, 05:29 PM) 588274
What's the dealio?

I imagine it's something that goes along these lines:

You open the door to the in.

The door to the in is suddenly closed from the other side.

You open the door to the in.

The door to the in is suddenly closed from the other side.

You open the door to the in.

The door to the in is suddenly closed from the other side.

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The door to the in is suddenly closed from the other side.

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Etc.
Noola2008-11-30 22:37:59
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You'd think after the third or forth time, you'd just come back to that door later.
Xenthos2008-11-30 22:39:18
QUOTE(Noola @ Nov 30 2008, 05:37 PM) 588280
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You'd think after the third or forth time, you'd just come back to that door later.

Actually, I do "open door;in", which beats triggers 95% of the time. That's not an actual quote.

Everyone has the option of doing this, though.
Unknown2008-11-30 23:08:29
Make it so that the Open/Closed status of a door can only be changed once per second.
Unknown2008-11-30 23:14:52
QUOTE(Xenthos @ Nov 30 2008, 02:39 PM) 588281
Actually, I do "open door;in", which beats triggers 95% of the time. That's not an actual quote.

Everyone has the option of doing this, though.

Aerotan2008-11-30 23:15:59
Which would be defeated by the fact that they're wondering if it can be made to cost balance.

It makes sense though. If one is invading enemy territory, one should expect to meet resistance from those on the other side of doors. Another idea would be to extend it so that anyone who can CITY/COMMUNE DOOR LOCK can also CITY/COMMUNE LOCK OPEN to lock a door into the open position, or something
Desitrus2008-11-30 23:17:32
I just hold down enter on "Close door in", this beats multiline commands 95% of the time.
Unknown2008-11-30 23:19:22
I think there should be a debate engage command so people don't run away so easily, which would remove the need for this in the first place!.

Unknown2008-11-30 23:21:50
That would make Demigods overpowered.
Xavius2008-11-30 23:23:22
QUOTE(Desitrus @ Nov 30 2008, 05:17 PM) 588294
I just hold down enter on "Close door in", this beats multiline commands 95% of the time.

I was wondering how people beat my multiline commands. I knew that I was beating triggers every time, but there were a couple people who would beat me consistently, and I think you're one of them.
Xenthos2008-11-30 23:27:29
QUOTE(Aerotan @ Nov 30 2008, 06:15 PM) 588293
Which would be defeated by the fact that they're wondering if it can be made to cost balance.

It makes sense though. If one is invading enemy territory, one should expect to meet resistance from those on the other side of doors. Another idea would be to extend it so that anyone who can CITY/COMMUNE DOOR LOCK can also CITY/COMMUNE LOCK OPEN to lock a door into the open position, or something

Doors can already be locked in the open position...
Aerotan2008-11-30 23:58:31
I meant without actually needing to have the door open, sorry. By which I mean the door is opened and locked that way via the LOCK OPEN command, allowing city defenders, etc to get to people trying to hide behind a closed door.
Zacc2008-12-01 00:24:48
Doors should auto-lock in the open position during revolts.

Would it be a valid issue if I had a trigger that "open door "d whenever that door was closed and it ended up spamming the game since someone else had a "close door " trigger for just the opposite?
Xenthos2008-12-01 00:35:11
QUOTE(Zacc @ Nov 30 2008, 07:24 PM) 588322
Doors should auto-lock in the open position during revolts.

Would it be a valid issue if I had a trigger that "open door "d whenever that door was closed and it ended up spamming the game since someone else had a "close door " trigger for just the opposite?

Given "natural game throttling" (the delay when your command is sent and the delay when their command is sent), it shouldn't be an issue to the game. If there was no delay at all (all commands entered on the server) I imagine it would cause a rather nasty little issue.

However, due to lag, it should not do much but spam you.