Why does...?

[Techwright]

• Why does the Team Transport only transport a percentage of the 8-person team on first try and not the full team?  At first glance, one would think inclusion of the entire team would be design 101, but perhaps there's a code reason?
• Why do the enhancement storage tables in bases flip-flop the listings of items if one is pulling several of one type out of them for use?  I've lost track of the number of times I click on a wrong item because the table re-sorts the order.

 

• Insert your "Why does [X] in the game do [Y] here.

[Glacier Peak]

Why does Atlas Park have a Blimp AND an attack helicopter?

[lemming]

58 minutes ago, Techwright said:

Why does the Team Transport only transport a percentage of the 8-person team on first try and not the full team?  At first glance, one would think inclusion of the entire team would be design 101, but perhaps there's a code reason?

It's got a small AOE?  Maybe it could be expanded since it doesn't interfere with other teams

[Burk]

Team Transport has a target cap of 255, so there's no issue with transporting everyone in range. However, the radius is only 15ft.

[biostem]

2 hours ago, Techwright said:

At first glance, one would think inclusion of the entire team would be design 101, but perhaps there's a code reason?

Could it be that some have prompt for tp on?

[ZekeStenzland]

1 hour ago, biostem said:

Could it be that some have prompt for tp on?

AFAIK, the team tp always asks everyone (that are in the area) if they want to be teleported. The to prompt is only for the single target tp other when used on friendlier. 

[ZorkNemesis]

33 minutes ago, ZekeStenzland said:

The to prompt is only for the single target tp other when used on friendlier. 

 

Prompt Teleport is for any allied teleport; Recall Target, Shadow Recall, Assemble the Team, Summon Teammates, and Incandescence will all ask the player if Prompt Teleport is active.  I don't know if it applies to Team Teleport, but I've never seen anyone take that power in all my years playing.

 

Mission Transporter will ask regardless of prompt setting, probably due to it making you change zones most of the time.  Might be jarring to suddenly end up in another zone without input.

[Scarlet Shocker]

Have you tried to get more than three people in a Longbow flier?

 

you'd better be pretty bloody intimate with your team if you wanna squeeze more in!

 

 

Serious answer: I believe it's an inbuilt penalty to give some sense of notional balance to the game. In the same way you are timed if you get defeated in Incarnate missions. I think the theory is that since you're all getting to the mission much more quickly than if you flew/ran/jumped/teleported there should be some restriction on beginning the mission instantly. I kind of think that makes sense in one way but I can see it's bloody annoying in another.

[Snarky]

I thoight you were going to ask “why does it burn when i pee?”

 

[Sarion]

42 minutes ago, Snarky said:

I thoight you were going to ask “why does it burn when i pee?”

 

Why Snarky!!!? Why would you post that? Though a better question is why would anyone do that to their body?

[Maelwys]

1 hour ago, Sarion said:

Why Snarky!!!? Why would you post that? Though a better question is why would anyone do that to their body?

According to the Tabloid Rags; they "allowed their opponent to douse their groin area with lighter fluid" as part of a stunt... but neglected to have a Fire extinguisher on hand.
Another promising mensa candidate then attempted to put the blaze out by hitting them with a Garden Strimmer (I swear I'm not making this up)

I'd call everyone involved a dumbass; but I suspect the ass in question is no longer recognisable.
 

Edited September 3 by Maelwys

[Hedgefund]

The first one has been answered, there is no "penalty" except a penalty for being outside of the radius.  If all 8 teammates are in range, all 8 will get ported, period, I've seen this happen plenty of times.

 

The second question is a great one.  I'd love to see this fixed.  It's not game breaking but certainly "game annoying".

[ZemX]

Why is it possible to go through some doors/hatches when they are open, and others you must wait for them to close before you can click them again?

 

Yeah, the obvious answer is different people worked on them, but I'm curious at the inner-workings.  Is the clickable area something that is attached to the door itself or is it some bounding volume that covers the whole doorway and door frame?  Because clicking the open door rather than the empty door frame doesn't seem to work either.  It's like the trigger area you can click on disappears when the door is open.

 

Possibly related: At tram stations, a few seconds before the gate closes and the train leaves, the ability to click the open door to the tram car disappears and you have to wait for the next car even though the tram hasn't left yet.  You'd think this is do you don't see an animation of your hero dashing into the tram car when the doors have already closed, but this happens in reverse when you're waiting for the next car.  If you've clicked the door, your hero will often appear to enter the car before the doors have opened.

 

Asking the big questions, I know.

[Bionic_Flea]

Why are the elevator floor buttons on the outside of the elevators?  Do I have to pick what floor I want to go to first?

[High_Beam]

3 hours ago, Snarky said:

I thoight you were going to ask “why does it burn when i pee?”

In the Navy, you can actually receive derogatory counseling documents placed in your medical record for multiple instances of that happening.

[Without_Pause]

10 hours ago, Techwright said:

• Why do the enhancement storage tables in bases flip-flop the listings of items if one is pulling several of one type out of them for use?  I've lost track of the number of times I click on a wrong item because the table re-sorts the order.

It's too early in the morning for me to think of something else, but this might be the longest standing, 'How in the world is this still a bug?' bug.

 

Also, the lack of Frank Zappa is disappointing in you all. 

 

[roleki]

I think (think) that while base storage is sorted alphabetically, it is stored in the order which it was added, and if you remove something that was put in earlier than what else is on screen, it re-organizes the list.  

 

At least, that's what it looks like it's doing.

[Snarky]

57 minutes ago, High_Beam said:

In the Navy, you can actually receive derogatory counseling documents placed in your medical record for multiple instances of that happening.

A man of worldly experience lol

[High_Beam]

39 minutes ago, Snarky said:

A man of worldly experience lol

When I was a boot, one of my Chiefs once told me about the The Rule of Three Fuckups; about Sailors and mistakes (which includes this):

 

Once is ignorance.

Twice is arrogance.

But three times is legendary.

 

Its why I always chuckled at Positron's Task Force.

[Bionic_Flea]

1 hour ago, High_Beam said:

In the Navy, you can actually receive derogatory counseling documents placed in your medical record for multiple instances of that happening.

 

In the Navy,

You can sail the seven seas.

In the Navy,

You get docked for burning pee!

In the Navy, in the Navy.

 

[Ukase]

12 hours ago, Techwright said:

Why does the Team Transport only transport a percentage of the 8-person team on first try and not the full team?

The prompt to accept teleport will only display if the character is within a small range. I looked in City of Data for more specifics, but didn't find anything useful. Anecdotally , you kind of have to be under it. 

[ZemX]

47 minutes ago, Ukase said:

The prompt to accept teleport will only display if the character is within a small range. I looked in City of Data for more specifics, but didn't find anything useful. Anecdotally , you kind of have to be under it. 

 

You have to dig a little to find the actual power used by the pseudo-pet (pseudo-jet?):

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.team_transport.team_transport_powers&at=minion_unkillablenpc

 

And this is the relevant part:

 

Not sure why its radius is that small.  The max targets hit is obviously just a max 8-bit integer, so they didn't care to restrict how many targets can be hit, but were somehow concerned that it wasn't too wide an area?  eh...

 

[srmalloy]

Sticking with Assemble the Team, why does it, in the third mission of the Penelope Yin Task Force, leave you standing on the tail boom of the mission helicopter with your midsection in the plane of the spinning rotors? Didn't Vic Morrow teach us anything?

[Snarky]

[UltraAlt]

On 9/2/2024 at 10:57 PM, Techwright said:

Insert your "Why does [X] in the game do [Y] here.

 

Why does the list of Email>character items alway reset to random order every time you log into the game?