No range check on crafting table

[srmalloy]

I'm not sure if this is properly a bug, instead of working as intended, but I had an incident with a character in Ouroboros just now that had me scratching my head. Another character had summoned a crafting table, and I moved over to craft the recipes I had salvage for. After crafting the first IO, the other character ran off, dragging the crafting table behind her, and disappeared into the Ouro building proper (I was by Mender Sears). The crafting window remained open, and I was able to craft another three recipes before I ran out of matching salvage and closed the window myself.

 

Just like the crafting tables do in bases, there is a range outside of which you can't click on the summoned crafting table and get a crafting window. However, for the tables in bases, you move away from the table and the crafting window will close; I was well outside the presumed range of the summoned table, but the crafting window didn't go away. I won't argue that this has benefits, but I don't think this is intended behavior.

[Ridiculous Girl]

usually if i am crafting in my tree, with my portable worktable, i'll leave the crafting window open. i can continue crafting long after the crafting table has exploded.

 

i think it is working as intended though...

 

if a worktable is summoned and someone comes up to it in the last 30 seconds, and it explodes, what should happen? i suppose there could be a timer, a countdown for a couple of minutes. the same with the table floating away, following the owner. what if the owner is playing jokes, dropping a table and then running away with it, breaking what ever crafting routine that someone has started, closing the crafting window because of a distance limit and no fault of the person using it?

 

i think that there is just no good, simple solution, so the devs are just leaving it as is... 🙂

 

 

[GM Crumpet]

Not too sure but I think the crafting table is just an interface. The table has a timer to summon the window but once you have the window open it's open until you close it. That way if you are doing a lot of crafting you don't have it close till you finish