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myowmyow
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After seeing people post about using the Gateway for Professions tasks and not remembering my prior experiences very well, I gave it a try again yesterday evening.
All I can say is "Yuck!"
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but collecting and starting new professions tasks takes me a LOT longer in the Gateway. What seems to drain the time the most is that when you click to start a new profession task then attempt to start another of the SAME task, you end up having to scroll back to the spot you were at as it seems to reset the tasks each time.
It seems to me like the Gateway was made more for tablets/iPhones than PCs.
Any thoughts on this?
All I can say is "Yuck!"
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but collecting and starting new professions tasks takes me a LOT longer in the Gateway. What seems to drain the time the most is that when you click to start a new profession task then attempt to start another of the SAME task, you end up having to scroll back to the spot you were at as it seems to reset the tasks each time.
It seems to me like the Gateway was made more for tablets/iPhones than PCs.
Any thoughts on this?
SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! (repeat indefinitely)
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
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-yeah sometimes i get the gateway freeze, but a reconnect does the trick for me.
That's a nice tip. I also get it refreezing where I refresh the page in an attempt to get it working again, yet it's still faster than ingame.
I search for "e" in the search box so that protect diamond shipment and destroy enemy camp are on the first page in reverse order with sometimes spellplague barrels too depending on the rares up. Also patrol enemy mines is on the 2nd page.
Of course in game has its own issues such as having to wait for professions to finish, selecting destroy enemy camp form the bottom will scroll the page up a little so that you have to scroll down a little to pick it again, potentially beinged logged out instead of going to the character select screen. Also you have to wait for the game to load each time of course.
And yes I have found that the layout is not very conducive for PC browsers, but I did manage to find a happy middle ground that allows me to set new profession tasks without scrolling up and down.
As for the delay, that too I have noticed. But then again, I have also found a delay ingame with collecting rewards from professions.
Just my 2 copper pieces...
Yes, but the bottom line for me, a PC player, is that working professions in-game is MUCH faster than using the Gateway. I won't use that ever again.
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
To do the same task (i.e. destroy enemy camp): write in the filter: "des" and only this one will be on the page. The browser "remembers" the filter for each profession separately. It is better than the ingame filter which remembers the filter all around the professions.
Gateaway is better for professions than the ingame option I think.
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Well like I say, for me it's faster. With the game client I need to wait for the game to load, deal with scrolling issues, go from the top to see the rares to the bottom (whereas my most important tasks are on the 1st page otherwise), and deal with the profession wait which they decided only to do in game as a ridiculous way to "combat bots". Whether you prefer to use the client is really up to you, and the gateway could definitely use tweaks, as does the in game client. But there are ways of making it work.
When I was on holiday, I was like **** it since it was too much work, though the connection wasn't great either.
One bug that seems to happen on both is that you select a task and click start, and it doesn't recognise and you have to do it again. If you need to select 4 toons that's kind of a pain...
I disagree. I don't ever have to take the time to type a search word/characters in-game. I can scroll very quickly to the proper location (I've learned them well by now). Ad once you hit that spot in the scroll list, you go back to it when you start another task instead of having to start over at the top of the list. It seems like typing search characters just adds more time, especially to Leadership since you can only do 3 of the same task at once - will have to type 2 or 3 search entries for EACH character.
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
Ironically enough, it runs slow on Firefox and Chrome for me, but runs like a dream on IE. I have IE on my desktop, and the only thing I use it for is the Gateway. In fact, right now I'm typing this out in Firefox, while I'm doing professions in the Gateway on IE :eek:
With a bit of experience you'll manage to come with some that suit you:
like "co" for Collect Taxes
"sp" for Fight the Spellplague
'cam' for Destroy the Enemy Camp
etc.
And, what is more important, I propose the thread name to be corrected: right now it should definitely be called 'Not a Fawn of the "Gateway"'
What browser etc are you using? The gateway is massively faster for me. Use of back and refresh are needed but it turns a 30 min task to about 10 mins or less refreshing everything.
If you do it my way and search for "e" to trim a lot of the unwanted tasks" with higher level stuff at the top, then you don't need to change the search field and you're forever sorted.
For levelling I recommend "in" for patrol mines and war games trainig once l13.
now if they could fix ingame that stupid thing where you have to wait a min or 2 because of "finishing task" or whatever bs that doesnt allow to click the second you login...
Ahh. Searching for simply "e" would be a good idea . . . Maybe I just need to get used to it.
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
It's WAY faster than the game interface. And the Search function searches as you type rather than having to type the complete search term and hit enter.
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The website itself is a terrible piece of bloat though, and it's actually barely functional on a phone.
Gateway is the best thing in Neverwinter. Hands down.
I really hope they will backport it to STO and CO.
Just saying.
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The Gateway definitely needs to be better optimized for touch screens/phones - It works fine on desktops/laptops, but nowadays, mobile devices are so prevalent, that this should be a non-issue.
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^Pretty much.
It's even faster when you have a mouse with a button that acts as Backspace (go back one page).
Queueing my profession tasks goes a lot faster on Gateway than it does in game for me. So my experience is pretty much the opposite from the OP.
Also finishing your task assignments in one profession at a time works better than jumping around which will hang you up every time.