Idea for attunings like the ones added in the latest delta.

[Akrion]

Just an idea ofcourse but perhaps, to help keep the older players happier should any more main-city attunments happen in the future, you guys can add an NPC that will allow higher rating characters to attune to every place that requires attunement under these Tier revamps (That didn't require attuning beforehand, that is). By all rights, the high level characters would have already of been attuned to Brist/Sslanis/Chiconis/Dalimond had this revamp happened when they were leveling that tier.

For example: The attunings in this delta were for the Tier II revamp, and to re-direct new players to Kion. However players ~40+ could perhaps have an NPC to go to in, say, Tazoon so they can attune to these places without the run around to do so. (Which, honestly, is all it's going to be for higher level players. More running around for stuff they shouldn't have to run around for, again because this would have been done back when their characters were tier II assuming they could have done it.)

Some food for thought, in any case. :3

[Raptress]

This would be nice.. it would save an annoying hour or two for the players who were already far above the content anyway. I've been hearing a lot of complaining, especially about Bristugo, in these few days since the patch went through. Though I'm not sure exactly how this could be done to prevent people who've gotten to the highest level of T2 (or whatever tier) since the patch from attuning everywhere without going there.

I know that the Ancient Rite of Passage has a /played check.. maybe the auto-attuning NPC could check days since creation to see if the player was around before the patch as well as having a level requirement?

[Dragonboy]

What is the problem with walking or flying to each town for one time?
Why should the devs make all kind of "asking-for-bug" changes just so that the older players can keep to their crafting or whatever it is they want to do.
The changes are made for everyone, newbies and oldies alike.

Just enjoy the changes... Enjoy the new landscapes...

[awdz]

i like running around exploring the changes but i can understand how others would not. i like the idea of an option for "oldtimers" to get the "attune everywhere you were before" as well as the option to run around for attuning.

[Frith-Rae]

What is the problem with walking or flying to each town for one time?
Why should the devs make all kind of "asking-for-bug" changes just so that the older players can keep to their crafting or whatever it is they want to do.
The changes are made for everyone, newbies and oldies alike.

Just enjoy the changes... Enjoy the new landscapes...

One can enjoy all the new landscapes without having to run through "miles" (in character terms) of the same roads...

Coming from one of those ol'timers who remembers when you had to attune EVERYWHERE BUT main cities (Harro run, yes, I remember it well) - I am both confused, and yet not confused, as to why they are adding it BACK in. I see reasons for both. Or should I clarify, I see reasons for attuning player towns, but still not for main cities.

I live in Chiconis, have for years, - I was immediately surprised I had to rebind to its portal *chuckles* - and didn't realize it until after I left (Hey why wouldn't the Chiconis portal be unavailable to Chiconis...lol) to go attune elsewhere. Luckily, I'm bound there cuz I live there. But its still a bit odd..

I think the quest idea for players who have leveled out of those areas is a good one. If the player wants to see new content - they're going to go to these areas anyway. Honestly I saw not much "new" to see flying the road to get to each city attunement (could have taken the shorter way but I was actually looking for new things...), rather than the cities themselves where the overhaul happened.

Now being a flying dragon, this took me all of 10 minutes. But never in my entire Istarian life have I felt more greatful for the ability to fly. As I can certainly see how this is obnoxious for those stuck on two or four legs. Not so much the idea of attunement itself, but the idea of having to go back to places we've gotten to "easily" for years to reattune.

I've never had to make a flat run from Dalimond to Chiconis - NEVER. Back in'da' more prevalent attunement days I didn't have to attuene to Chiconis to begin with (or Dralk, or Dalimond, or Kion, or Sslanis). I have no idea how difficult it may or may not be for a level 15-20 player sticking to the road.

But it sure does look like a fair'piece to me. And wether you're 20 or 100 - running seems to me not the most fun activity in the world - esp. to places you've come to expect to be able to port to.

So I'm all for out-leveled players being able to go to a central location and get the reattunement for places that have gone under the revamp - as we continue.

You know its the small things that can add up to make or break the game - why add to a negative list if you don't have to?

[velveeta]

attunement to racial towns, especially for the particular race that belongs to that town - just seems strange to me.......
and i totally agree with the running thing - boring to the max!

[Akrion]

Now being a flying dragon, this took me all of 10 minutes. But never in my entire Istarian life have I felt more greatful for the ability to fly. As I can certainly see how this is obnoxious for those stuck on two or four legs.

Oh, it's even 'better' when there's been major landscape changes and the map is far out of date. x3 As a biped, you kind of rely on that map to tell you where things are. When you run into a road that no longer exists, a cliff that was never there before, or hell even a massive piece of land being carved out by the ocean, it makes this running even more annoying.

I take my time to enjoy the scenery and landscape around me when I'm hunting, or just idly running around. I spend none of it enjoying the landscape when I'm in 'bypass for the quickest route' mode, which is what happens when I'm doing this silly attunement running around stuff. Also with being a non-crafting focused biped, there's not much draw to the new content in the first place.

[AmonGwareth]

I take my time to enjoy the scenery and landscape around me when I'm hunting, or just idly running around. I spend none of it enjoying the landscape when I'm in 'bypass for the quickest route' mode, which is what happens when I'm doing this silly attunement running around stuff. Also with being a non-crafting focused biped, there's not much draw to the new content in the first place.

100 plus adventurer-focused quests aren't enjoyable?

[Raptress]

What is the problem with walking or flying to each town for one time?
Why should the devs make all kind of "asking-for-bug" changes just so that the older players can keep to their crafting or whatever it is they want to do.
The changes are made for everyone, newbies and oldies alike.

Just enjoy the changes... Enjoy the new landscapes...

That basically amounts to "So they added an annoying change; deal with it." :/

Istaria is already full of lots of little annoyances just in random bugs, lag, port times, dealing with multiple plot structures, having things randomly stop working, etc. Running around to reattune to ports, especially ones that have been available since the game launched, like racial cities, is a chore more often than not. I would assume that any measures taken to reduce annoying things in this game would be of benefit to it in the long run.

I don't know about everyone else, but when I was running/flying around to reattune places, my only goal was to reattune. I was not there to explore. I explore new changes, yes, but I like to do that on my own time rather than being forced to.

And I've only gotten the attunements done on one character. I have at least seven more that are active characters, and fourteen total characters on my account. It adds up quickly.