Portals

[FirstToDie]

I’m sure portals, their use, creation, exploitation, and limits have been discussed 1000’s of times.

Many players want to be able to transport metals via portals, others feel that would only lesson the indented difficulty, while others just use the multiverse exploit to transfer metals anyway.

I propose a possible solution, but this would change the very nature of portals and how they are currently used and created.

What if there were absolutely no limits in what portals could transfer and every portal connected to every other portal, with the ability to select your arrival portal when passing through a portal?

The catch? Portals could no longer be created, but instead must be discovered and activated/repaired. Portals could no longer be moved, these broken / inactive portals would be randomly placed on the map, with perhaps a guaranteed portal in each boss biom.

This would increase the reason for exploration and civilization would organically spring up near and around these portals.

I’m sure many players will hate this idea, but in my opinion a change to portal mechanics is needed, the ability to place them almost anywhere combined with the ability to use the multiverse to transfer metal, has unbalanced the game.

[pApA^LeGBa]

Why don´t you all just not use them instead of trying to ruin the game for others.

Your solution would work if the maps weren´t completly random. The search for portals would be a huge pain as they would be placed by RNG. Wich could lead to no usefull portals at all if you are unlucky with your seed.

[Destryo]

No change is needed to portals. The whole point of the game is to pillage islands, load up your boat and go back to base like vikings.

[FirstToDie]

How random would certainly be the question, perhaps a selection slider when creating the world seed.

[stvlepore]

The Skyrim fast travel argument rehashed. I would say the same here I do there. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. Don’t trash my game because you have no self control.

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by FirstToDie:

I’m sure portals ... have been discussed 1000’s of times.

So why did you start a new thread on this topic instead of adding your thoughts to one of the hundreds of existing threads?

Or y'know... the PINNED thread?

[wildbill]

Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

Why don´t you all just not use them instead of trying to ruin the game for others.

Your solution would work if the maps weren´t completly random. The search for portals would be a huge pain as they would be placed by RNG. Wich could lead to no usefull portals at all if you are unlucky with your seed.

There are already unlucky seeds, but if you want to take the luck out of it, just put the seed in here and if you don't like it, try a different one before you play a new game:
http://valheim-map.world/

[Simon Bar Sinister]

They just just remove them altogether.

[Cougarific]

FFS guys if you want to argue about portals do it in the new PINNED THREAD.

Let this die!

[pApA^LeGBa]

Originally posted by billwerth2:

Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

Why don´t you all just not use them instead of trying to ruin the game for others.

Your solution would work if the maps weren´t completly random. The search for portals would be a huge pain as they would be placed by RNG. Wich could lead to no usefull portals at all if you are unlucky with your seed.

There are already unlucky seeds, but if you want to take the luck out of it, just put the seed in here and if you don't like it, try a different one before you play a new game:
http://valheim-map.world/

Nope. That totally ruins the exploration part of the game. The idea of randomly placed portals is simply not a good one. Even if you can look at the map before, it would slow down the game a LOT.

[wildbill]

Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

Originally posted by billwerth2:

There are already unlucky seeds, but if you want to take the luck out of it, just put the seed in here and if you don't like it, try a different one before you play a new game:
http://valheim-map.world/

Nope. That totally ruins the exploration part of the game. The idea of randomly placed portals is simply not a good one. Even if you can look at the map before, it would slow down the game a LOT.

For you it does. So you don't go to the website that shows you the map.

For those that want it, it is there.

BTW, the map doesn't show everything by default. First it just shows you a map like you would see if you used the cheat code to reveal the map. It shows you the spawn location (no big reveal there).

You can then check a bunch of boxes to show more and more. If there were portals on the map, they would add a box to show the location of those.

Not everyone plays games the same way. Just because you like exploring unknown territory, others may not and would welcome something that shows them a few of the locations of things on the map. Not sure how many threads there are on how do you find the Trader.

[Caduryn]

Many People want to teleport Ores....?

I dont see many, even in the 1200 reply Topic there are like 800 replys from just 3 People.....

[Cougarific]

FFS guys if you want to argue about portals do it in the new PINNED THREAD.

Let this die!

[pApA^LeGBa]

@billwerth2 This idea with random portals as the only ones you can use is the topic here. And it would make this game unplayable imo. Even with that website.

No need to defend what you do with your maps. I know how it works, i used it to get an idea how the world generation works, never played a seed that i saw there tough.