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[Glave]

I'll make it short. While travelling on the world map, you should be able to SKIP any encounter that you are able to without any notice, I'll explain.

Fe. after replication, you want to get somewhere quickly, but you can't, even though your outdoorsman is high, you always have to skip all the damn encounters. It's especially annoying if you alt-tab a lot in fullscreen mode and your window starts blinking because of some scorpions. It's f**** tedious!

My proposal here is that, in a corner of the interface there should be a little option to tick, "If possible, skip any encounter", that'll work as an automatic NO after the window with the option to go into an encounter plops up.

Cheers.

[Crazy]

So what would be the point of outdoors?
All the travelling on WM would lost his interest.

[Floodnik]

Crazy, but the option would be "if possible" so it still would depend on Outdoorsman...
I like this idea.

[Glave]

Crazy, but the option would be "if possible" so it still would depend on Outdoorsman...
I like this idea.

Yes, indeed. It would just skip the window that plops up and lets you continue travelling.

[Drakonis]

he window skips itself after few seconds..

My suggestion: watch the screen. You are playing a game afterall right? not some O-game bullshit where you click and wait

[Handyman]

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 Don't alt+tab than and encouters are skipped if you have enough outdoorsman

[vedaras]

lol making suggestion because you like to alt + tab? stupid...

[kraskish]

I partially agree, there should be some option:

"avoid any encounter" meaning the possible encountered encounters would be dismissed... although if encountered it would take you into the worldmap as usual, I dont see any bad side of this some tick option on the right

[avv]

Basically every encounter should be avoidable. They don't posess any other role than loot and exp. If a player isn't interested in either why are encounters showed down his throat?

[Izual]

And why do we keep NPCs at all anyway ?

[kraskish]

Basically every encounter should be avoidable. They don't posess any other role than loot and exp. If a player isn't interested in either why are encounters showed down his throat?

I concur, its really silly. Outdoorsman is to avoid trivial enciounters like scorpions and to increase the choice to go into the battle or not, so I disaggree

My idea doesnt change anything besides auto NO clicked by the system , it would make travelling as fast as possible, but I think this is of low priority

[avv]

And why do we keep NPCs at all anyway ?

What I'm saying that some encounters have no role at all. And even those with role are mostly just distracting players when they are on something else than encounter hunting. For example spore plants, rats, pigrats, dogs and such are just useless critters. Nobody actually dies in them, except nubs. There's no meaning for their existence. They are just fossils of fallout singleplayer games where critters served as difficulty barrier.
Then we have harder encounters, they might even kill players occasionally but when they do what's it for anyone? The stuff is lost and the encounter disappears, there's no causality.
What should be done is that players should be able to avoid most encounters if he isn't interested in them. I mean if the player can run away from the dogs, why must he enter the encounter in first place? Outdoorsman could then just affect finding cool encounters, future profesion, travel speed and whatnot.

Useless critters could either give loot or guard places with loot.

Then we could have some actually unavoidable encounters that had to do with factions and prevented certain players getting somewhere too easily but that's another story.

[Glave]

I concur, its really silly. Outdoorsman is to avoid trivial enciounters like scorpions and to increase the choice to go into the battle or not, so I disaggree

My idea doesnt change anything besides auto NO clicked by the system , it would make travelling as fast as possible, but I think this is of low priority

Indeed, it's not something that needs to be implemented ASAP, though I figured this would be a nice feature, since sometimes I'm forced to play fullscreen mode, which makes travelling and being doing something in the meanwhile really tiresome(compared to windowed).

Of course random encounters should stay, as they are the basis for player killing and always give some adrenaline when walking around the world map with valuables. That makes the game more fun. My suggestion is nothing more than just an interface improvement.

[Surf]

I strongly disagree in disabling those "useless" (  ) encounters.
They are there for the flavor, or even to gain the first few XP. I don't know what's so hard about simply running away from those critters. Is it such a pain in the ass to watch what you are doing instead just alt-tabbing out?

[Glave]

I strongly disagree in disabling those "useless" (  ) encounters.
They are there for the flavor, or even to gain the first few XP. I don't know what's so hard about simply running away from those critters. Is it such a pain in the ass to watch what you are doing instead just alt-tabbing out?

Yes, it is, especially if you have to run across the whole map, endlessly getting senseless encounters such as geckos, sometimes even three times in the same square. Besides, the suggestion is to add a button that would automatically skip encounters that you are able to thanks to outdoorsman, not to remove critter encounters.