Haunting on/off?

[Ailes]

I don't know a good reason for people to haunt something other than to troll/grief you. So let's make it an option to have it disabled altogether like PvP? Except the Jury-Rigged Portal of course because you need to haunt it when playing "Endless" to get revived.

[Ｂｏｏｂｓ]

haunting can:
- haunt a grave to make ghost army (tank/decoy)
- haunt a flower to turned it to evil flower (which can turn into a nightmare fuel by using the hat science machine) also haunting a flower (DO NOT confuse with haunting evil flower) have 0% chance to burn them (unlike when you haunting other plants, which have a chance to burn them)
- haunt a rock or tree to chop/mine it
- haunt a grandma's book for unlimited use (tentacle fortress is the most OP weapon in game) >.>

[Ailes]

I've never seen people do any of this. Is it because of inexperience or lack of usability? Perhaps it would be wiser to have servers disable haunting altogether, as in most instances that I recall it had been used by griefers or newbies who didn't know about the harm it can cause.

[MrIjela 󰀍]

Also you can haunt farms to speed the process of growing, but I would also like to see an option to disable haunting. +1

[Ailes]

Originally posted by MrIjela:

Also you can haunt farms to speed the process of growing, but I would also like to see an option to disable haunting. +1

I've seen someone do it and the farm caught fire.

[Ｂｏｏｂｓ]

^ haunted farm and any plant (other than day-flower) have a chance to start a fire

[MrIjela 󰀍]

Okay okay, haunt PLANT, not farm. Or maybe after they added RoG it doesn'T work as it did before.

[Retrolicious]

sorry op but you are wrong on this.
for example one time on a server i solo killed a deerclops as ghost. no kidding.
beeing a good ghost player can save worlds and haunting is a vital part of it.
you just have to learn where haunting is devastating and where haunting is beneficial for your team.
for example its always a good idea to turn trees into treeguards for your party, so they can bodyguard against hounds !
also haunting can do lots of hidden stuff. for example you can create spider queens if you like to farm spider hats.
or you can turn hounds into snow /fire hounds if your a magician and need lots of gems for fire staffs / magic tab.
seriously haunting is awesome :p

[Ailes]

Still, for servers that aren't expected to last longer than a couple of hours with newbies-ishy players there is no reason to have haunting enabled. People have been mostly causing more harm with it than anything whenever I saw them do it. In the process perhaps expections could be defined, like enabling haunting for players who have been on the server for x hours or y days - because griefers/trolls probably won't stick around for a prolonged amount of time. Or allowing anyone who is on the whitelist.txt or adminlist.txt to haunt indefinitely.

I've tried haunting several stuff mentioned here, like trees to chop them, and these things took way too long. In my instances it would have made much more sense to revive me than to let me desperately try to be useful, haunting something dozens and dozens of times so it >may< turn into or spawn something useful. Even more so when you are playing survival because of the sanity drain.

[RangedSpider]

Ya most ghosts just haunt stuff till they are able to start a fire or destroy your stuff.

[MrIjela 󰀍]

Originally posted by stop TTIP now!:

sorry op but you are wrong on this.
for example one time on a server i solo killed a deerclops as ghost. no kidding.
beeing a good ghost player can save worlds and haunting is a vital part of it.
you just have to learn where haunting is devastating and where haunting is beneficial for your team.
for example its always a good idea to turn trees into treeguards for your party, so they can bodyguard against hounds !
also haunting can do lots of hidden stuff. for example you can create spider queens if you like to farm spider hats.
or you can turn hounds into snow /fire hounds if your a magician and need lots of gems for fire staffs / magic tab.
seriously haunting is awesome :p

Sure, drain my sanity, burn all my farms and/or turn them into treeguards, destroy my fire pit and send spider armies for me, I LOVE YOU!

[Retrolicious]

your forget that most advanced players dont care about ghost sanity drain. I can survive easily like 100 days with several ghosts around and sanity is just fine. Also look at haunting like a "minigame" the noobs / dead players get to do something than to need to spectate fully.
Haunting is just like a different mode and quite interesting. Good for laughs, can be used positive or negativ you can really support as a ghost. All depends on the player if he wants to be a nightmare ghost or a friendly ghost. Its just a great addition to the adventure !
And if you hate sanity drain or dead people just play endless or wilderness mode.
Survival is the real threat for experienced players :p

@Mrjela pls stop talking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. trading little sanity drain for a DEAD deerclops is totally worth the trade. Also i never grief so your speaking nonsense here. Just ask the op

[MrIjela 󰀍]

Originally posted by stop TTIP now! ʕ￫ᴥ￩　ʔ:

your forget that most advanced players dont care about ghost sanity drain. I can survive easily like 100 days with several ghosts around and sanity is just fine. Also look at haunting like a "minigame" the noobs / dead players get to do something than to need to spectate fully.
Haunting is just like a different mode and quite interesting. Good for laughs, can be used positive or negativ you can really support as a ghost. All depends on the player if he wants to be a nightmare ghost or a friendly ghost. Its just a great addition to the adventure !
And if you hate sanity drain or dead people just play endless or wilderness mode.
Survival is the real threat for experienced players :p

@Mrjela pls stop talking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. trading little sanity drain for a DEAD deerclops is totally worth the trade. Also i never grief so your speaking nonsense here. Just ask the op

You're the one talking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, you just said that they can do negative things, too. Since I don't want negative things, why not REMOVE it? Please get some common sense and respect other people.

[Retrolicious]

yeah but your mixing up ability and people. if people want to make negative stuff they will do no matter if they haunt or use other means. if people are positive they will support you.
thats common sense. you are asking to change people with an artificial haunt change.
But people wont change. You gotta deal with those kind of communities , thats the thing about multiplayer games. If you are sensitive you might want to play the original DS :p
Trying to change random people wont work mate.

[MrIjela 󰀍]

Originally posted by stop TTIP now! ʕ￫ᴥ￩　ʔ:

yeah but your mixing up ability and people. if people want to make negative stuff they will do no matter if they haunt or use other means. if people are positive they will support you.
thats common sense. you are asking to change people with an artificial haunt change.
But people wont change. You gotta deal with those kind of communities , thats the thing about multiplayer games. If you are sensitive you might want to play the original DS :p
Trying to change random people wont work mate.

"Trying to change random people won't work mate"
Unless you disable the option to haunt, they're changed, they're now unable to haunt. Simple as that. End of discussion. If you reply, I won't.

[Retrolicious]

Nope not end of discussion thats non in your powers.
And no only taking away haunt wont change griefers or bad persons. They would just burn your stuff or eat your stuff and let you starve. DST got thousands of ways to be productive and positive or negative and destructive.
Sry but you seem to be very naive Mrjela ....