"Throw me a rope!" - add another option for getting out of crevices

moomintove

Nearby players or your companion should be able to use a rope to help you get out of crevices. I recently had "50' rope" in my inventory when I got trapped between rocks that were just tall enough I couldn't short-range teleport out of. Near as I can tell, that particular rope had no in-game use except to be sold to a merchant.

Why not make rope a tool, instead of just worth a few coins? A player could signal "Throw me a rope!", and your companion or a nearby NPC would throw a line down and hold it while you climb out. Or "Pull me up!", if the stuck player is the one with the rope.

I got in that hole by using short-range teleport to jump backwards away from death, but I've been trapped a lot of times. Through lots of different circumstances. With my companion hopping in and out of the trap with ease, while happy to leave me in there for all eternity.

::What did I ever do to YOU, dear companion? …O, that's right: used you as a reusable meat shield which auto-resurrects a few seconds after dying.::

Currently, characters can easily get into spots they can't climb out of, and may have to switch instances (if one is available) or /defeat themselves. This seems unnecessarily punishing. I, for one, would heartily welcome our new coil-bearing saviors.

pitshade

Look at it carefully... it's fifty inches of rope.

plasticbat

People throw you a rope all the time but they just throw you the whole rope.

scratchees

somebody get this guy a rope

greywynd

*tosses down the whole rope*

kalina311

/stuck command = rope

armadeonx

Lol, lots of 'rope throwers' here I see

armadeonx

On topic, seeing as "I'm stuck" appears to never ever work, it would be nice to have an alternative to forced suicide.

Being thrown a rope would be a fun visual mechanic that would see people deliberately getting stuck in weird places just so they can be rescued!

plasticbat

armadeonx said:

On topic, seeing as "I'm stuck" appears to never ever work, it would be nice to have an alternative to forced suicide.

Being thrown a rope would be a fun visual mechanic that would see people deliberately getting stuck in weird places just so they can be rescued!

In that case, it should not be a rope but something like Mako elevated the castle top up in the intro video.

greywynd

Or they could leave you in the pit and you get a cut-scene of vultures or whatever descending upon you.

grogthemagnif

Now you know why all my 'Real' DnD characters carry a 'collapsible grapnel, which the game hates because it's easier to get to those 'hard-to-reach' Scrying Stones.

rockster

armadeonx said:

On topic, seeing as "I'm stuck" appears to never ever work, it would be nice to have an alternative to forced suicide.

Being thrown a rope would be a fun visual mechanic that would see people deliberately getting stuck in weird places just so they can be rescued!

From my own experience 'I'm stuck' only works when you're physically stuck in an object and it moves you a few feet to the side, that works fine, for instance the other day at the end of LoMM I was standing right where one of the end chests appeared and got stuck inside it, also worked for me fine when I was doing Hell Pit and we got stuck in the entrance door all the time, but when you're in a hole surrounded on all sides by terrain that's not going to work because there's nowhere to shift you to. A special teleport scroll which takes you to the nearest campfire would be a nice option.

armadeonx

rockster#6227 said:

armadeonx said:

On topic, seeing as "I'm stuck" appears to never ever work, it would be nice to have an alternative to forced suicide.

Being thrown a rope would be a fun visual mechanic that would see people deliberately getting stuck in weird places just so they can be rescued!

From my own experience 'I'm stuck' only works when you're physically stuck in an object and it moves you a few feet to the side, that works fine, for instance the other day at the end of LoMM I was standing right where one of the end chests appeared and got stuck inside it, also worked for me fine when I was doing Hell Pit and we got stuck in the entrance door all the time, but when you're in a hole surrounded on all sides by terrain that's not going to work because there's nowhere to shift you to. A special teleport scroll which takes you to the nearest campfire would be a nice option.

I think it's worked for me only once though I've tried it dozens of times.

hexngone

Today, while walking a path in the snow of Dwarven Valley I suddenly found my character trapped *inside* the horse-drawn wagon surrounded by enemy dwarves. No rope would pull me out there, could not run away, fought off mobs until the meteor storm hit and beat me into a death-like state. Not fun at all.

rockster

And not possible to just stand patiently and wait the 10 seconds either.

tchefi

rockster#6227 said:

A special teleport scroll which takes you to the nearest campfire would be a nice option.

For me, that's my "killme" shortcut.
/bind ctrl+k gensendmessage Stuck_Defeatme Activate
(but a tp scroll to the closest campfire would be nice for console players)

rockster

I'm just thinking of how you lose some buffs when you die and waste them, it would be nice to teleport somewhere and not have to reapply them again after death.

greywynd

rockster#6227 said:

A special teleport scroll which takes you to the nearest campfire would be a nice option.

The "kill me" command does take you to the nearest campfire. With an injury to show for it.

rockster

I know and that's why a scroll would be nice so you don't have any and you don't lose your buffs. You shouldn't be penalized in any way for getting stuck in a hole which shouldn't be there in the first place. They can put invisible planes over them so people don't fall in them.

greywynd

The hazards of being an adventurer. Aren't you glad you invested in those Clone spells?