Teleportation Effects

[Oberon]

Here's a suggestion I was thinking about during an RP with Khatla today.

/rptele creates an effect on your player, making him or her fade out with the cloak effect before moving you... and then making you fade in.

As far as I know this is only for eyecandy and there's no reason the teleportation would take any time to "charge."

I'm in support of removing the visual and audio effects in favor of the teleportation mechanic to be instantaneous. This improves RP so that say, for example... in some sort of dream or vision RP you need a character to pop up somewhere there's no advanced warning in the form of that cloak sound, or if you just want a character to disappear into thing air, hologram to pop up.

[Syrena Exan]

I agree with this, and it's definitely possible. I'm fairly certain JA+ had an option built in for instant teleportation.

[Amoné Fayden]

I'd say JEDI would benefit from this.

Teleports in JEDI RP tend to be OOC and rarely used in plain sight.
Also, the sound unfortunately draws attention to what could be an upcoming surprise as well, which is quite deflating.

If there came a time where somebody did want to use Teleport in an RP capacity but didn't like it being so sudden, then they can always beef it up with some extra effects using /rpeffect or the cloak item itself to emulate the old effect.


Support.

[Tergos Zemnos]

I fully support this. On more than one occasion, I've seen the sound and effect totally ruin the fact of surprise. As long as regular stealth from the item choice is unaffected, then I'm cool with it!

[Motoko]

W00t.

+1

[Skrassk]

I agree with this, and it's definitely possible. I'm fairly certain JA+ had an option built in for instant teleportation.

JA+ does, it's a big beam of green light than causing instantaneous teleportation instead of fading in/out over time, the issue was it always left a scorch mark on the ground.

Here is the exact setting for disabling the fade in/out teleport which resulting in the beam and mark on the ground from my server.cfg in my JA+ folder.

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seta jp_starTrekTeleport 0

Changing the 0 to a 1 changed it to fade (or vise versa I can't remember which way heh)

[Motoko]

I think the idea is that there's no effect at all... just *POP!* you're there.

[Oberon]

Yes, no visual effect whatsoever. Just a change in origin coordinates.

[Esth Me'sku]

Teleports in JEDI RP tend to be OOC and rarely used in plain sight. Also, the sound unfortunately draws attention to what could be an upcoming surprise as well, which is quite deflating.

But then we wouldn't know when someone was coming up from a stealth from behind/infront of you! Haha. Sarcasm.

I like the motion. +2