Suggestion: Add a world option for the celestial portal to determine usage

[abrocator]

Disclaimer that I like the Portal and character swapping.

Say you swap to Warly for Warly things. Now you just have to do the meatball/meaty stew dance for some more days. Since you’re swapping characters you’re probably in the stage of the world where you have everything you need set up. His downsides aren’t something that will get you killed. So there’s no real risk.

You just switch to him and have to get annoyed (if you are annoyed by his downsides) for all the days that the cooldown lasts.

The same goes for all other characters I think? Because most downsides are manageable in a world with a comfy base and all that. Like switching to Wurt (if that’s a thing): you have had enough time to transplant all the veggie resources you need for her.

I realize your stated point that this is the minimum change to solve the supposed problem. But I don’t think it’s a good one.

A larger change would be to tie it to some new questline:

• The moon rock is guaranteed on day 1
• You have to do some mini quest that tests your skills (to whatever degree that the Portal naysayers demand in order to be worthy of using the Portal, but not something crazy like beating CC IMO)

That would be more fun than the current requirement which is just crafting.

Then you also have to do some risk assessment. Maybe you want to “rush” things with a character that is good early game and then switch to some character that is better mid-late game. But you have to weigh that against being good enough with that character to complete the questline.

[grm9]

4 hours ago, dst_lover said:

i don't get your point the purpose of it so i will not have to  argue with every one who will enter the world 

you could just put it into server's description

14 hours ago, Faintly Macabre said:

And I mean nobody

Is abusing the portal to fill their bars as a strat

people that do no food runs

14 hours ago, EatenCheetos said:

Have a default cooldown of something like 1 year to keep things balanced

being forced to play as warly for a year because of wanting to get potato for astroggles would suck, you can just not swap for a year if you want to, no need to force everyone to do that

[EatenCheetos]

57 minutes ago, grm9 said:

being forced to play as warly for a year because of wanting to get potato for astroggles would suck

That is precisely the point. Make swap abusers absolutely miserable

58 minutes ago, grm9 said:

you can just not swap for a year if you want to, no need to force everyone to do that

So we can never suggest nerfs for things we find OP? C’mon now, be serious…

[grm9]

5 minutes ago, EatenCheetos said:

That is precisely the point. Make swap abusers absolutely miserable

you're a bad person and shouldn't be allowed to interact with other people

5 minutes ago, EatenCheetos said:

So we can never suggest nerfs for things we find OP? C’mon now, be serious…

if they'll simply make the game less fun, yes

[chaosmonkey]

8 minutes ago, EatenCheetos said:

Make swap abusers absolutely miserable

Yikes.... so much hate for people that enjoy the game differently than you.

[cropo]

I'm actually in favor of making it an option, teeeechnically, you could make a server and someone would use the portal when you forbade it. You could kick them, and I do think it's the server owners responsibility to make those rules clear, but having it outright be an option(that literally no one would probably use) would be a good thing imo.

 

Kinda surprised a lot of people are against adding it as an option, I don't see any harm in it and I seriously doubt it would take a lot of Klei's time to make it an option. If we have an option to change the damage values of monsters, adding a celestial portal toggle seems like a non-issue, no?