What does this suggestion add:
Hide the console logging of instance entry/departure to regular players and migrate them to staff logs only.
Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Nothing related.
Possible Positives of the suggestion:
This change would make dimension hopping as elusive as it sounds, increasing value and therefore incentive for cartographers on all respective fronts. I've been trying to avoid talking about metagame but this is the sole directive of this suggestion. Subconsciously or not, players are always looking at the console, watching a mass of people enter the dimension, and immediately take every door that opens by itself as a reason to sweep the entire site.
(Not even sure why entries/exits are logged, maybe for debugging purposes in the testing phase?)
Hide the console logging of instance entry/departure to regular players and migrate them to staff logs only.
Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Nothing related.
Possible Positives of the suggestion:
- Actual secrecy of events and operations pertaining to dimensional travel, making RP actions less predictable and strategical
- Players would have to discover dimensional operations solely through RP avenues (instance bridges, spontaneous actions) without prior subconscious knowledge
- Dimensional travel becomes harder to track for "OOC purposes" (moved to staff logs anyway)
This change would make dimension hopping as elusive as it sounds, increasing value and therefore incentive for cartographers on all respective fronts. I've been trying to avoid talking about metagame but this is the sole directive of this suggestion. Subconsciously or not, players are always looking at the console, watching a mass of people enter the dimension, and immediately take every door that opens by itself as a reason to sweep the entire site.
(Not even sure why entries/exits are logged, maybe for debugging purposes in the testing phase?)
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