Maria Jenkins - Pick a portal!

[BigHeavy]

In the Maria Jenkins you're tasked to go through a number of portals to deal with various threats.   Would it be possible for her to pick one and stick with it?

Really, the running from portal to portal across the various builds gets... annoying.

[Psyonico]

Why is it more annoying than going from any other mission to any other mission?

[Black Zot]

Better than all the wannabe-tourguides that bounce you around half the zones in the city, but still annoying.

[SwitchFade]

Sorry, no vote.

[TheZag]

I dont think of it as annoying but as strange.  Why couldnt any portal take you anywhere does make the whole portal operation seem inefficient.

 

But that said,  with just 2 of us running these missions we made it to the next portal in almost no time so i dont think locking the missions to a single portal is necessary.  

 

If its ever needed, an elevator from the portal room to outside would probably streamline the process enough.  But even all that to save just a few seconds seems like overkill.

[srmalloy]

15 hours ago, TheZag said:

I dont think of it as annoying but as strange.  Why couldnt any portal take you anywhere does make the whole portal operation seem inefficient.

It takes time to reconfigure a portal to point to a different dimension or location; that's why you have to go to a different one for the next mission. (just ignore the fact that there are other heroes using the same portal you are to go to other dimensions; they're only figments of your imagination, created by your proximity to the warped space around the portal.)

[TheZag]

4 hours ago, srmalloy said:

It takes time to reconfigure a portal to point to a different dimension or location; that's why you have to go to a different one for the next mission. (just ignore the fact that there are other heroes using the same portal you are to go to other dimensions; they're only figments of your imagination, created by your proximity to the warped space around the portal.)

 

Also ignore when the next mission is in the same portal =D

[Mr. Vee]

It is really annoying, but such a relief once you get inside the missions.... and get to open >9000 pointless doors in praetoria maps!

[MsSmart]

I like the proposal

 

The reprograming of a portal, should not be too hard, its technology, just think how long it takes to load an app on your phone. Lets be honest about this, in the old days, the need to have time sinks were a primary objective of developers. The need for such time sinks, is no longer valid, and that is why developers have worked so hard with the transportation system to make the inter travel between missions less boring. So having the same portal for all missions, is not much of a leap of faith here.

 

Sue