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Add a destination map indicator to teleports


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It's not going to stop all the possible abuses of teleports -- early in Live, there were people who got their jollies by going up to the edge of the roof of a tall building, invite a low-level character to team, and then teleport them to a spot about five feet out in the air from their position, just to watch them fall to the ground (remember, this was when you had to be level 6 before you could get even Hover, and 14 to get Fly, Super Jump, or Teleport) -- but one of the things I've been seeing with increasing frequency is the use of Incandescence in Rikti mothership raids to teleport the league to a pylon -- but there's no way to tell where the teleport is going; it could just as easily be bringing you to an extreme corner of the zone as it is to be taking you somewhere useful. I would like to suggest three modifications to the way that Teleport Target, Team Teleport, and Incandescence work to make them a little friendlier to the victim recipient:

 

  1. If you have 'Prompt for teleport' turned on, your pets should not be teleported unless you click 'accept'; this keeps you from being denuded of your pets in the middle of combat.
  2. Allow the teleport prompt window to be moved on the screen and remember its position. Currently you can drag it around, but the next time you get a prompt, the window pops up dead center in your screen where it can obscure the maximum amount of what's going on around you, and won't go away until it either expires or you click on one of the buttons (requiring a mouse click, even if you're using the keyboard)
  3. Put a flashing marker on the map showing where the target of the teleport is. It's not going to help if you have the map closed, or zoomed and panned so that the teleport target is outside of the zone window, but it at least gives you the opportunity to know where you're going before you click 'accept'.
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