Logging out properly vs LD

What if there were bonuses for logging out properly instead of going linkdead? Or penalties for going linkdead.

Quicker/slower regeneration of hitpoints/MV etc.
A lag on all commands inputted

Things of that nature. Stop going Ld wherever you are/on the bridge of your ship/in a taxi!

I like this and I don’t like it at the same time.

It would also help that imms don’t cut corners on capital ships and actually make hotels <!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!– s:) –>

how about this

incentives based on room flag

like if you are going to idle or log out, if you do it in a hotel flagged room you get some kind of bonus or if you are going to bot study or w/e you could get a bonus from doing it in a library flagged room

edit i know this is kind of tangential i am somewhat drunk and i cant think of a good reason to log out instead of ld but i dont really think incentivizing logging out is a good thing either i guess

I agree to making it a bonus rather than a penalty

maybe take out scientific mind (lol what a bad feat) and make it so you gain a scientific mind or w/e for a certain period of time if you’ve been logged out so skills go up faster

edit to avoid double post

but again that would be incentivizing logging out so i dont like it i am full of bad ideas i dont like

I like the bonus for resting properly, (Someone’s been playing Skyrim!) but as far as LD’s go, why penalize people who suddenly have to leave, or their internet goes out? Furthermore, won’t you just be able to rid yourself of the LD negatives by rushing to a hotel, quitting, then logging right back on when you next come back?

No. Don’t really care for this idea. Sorry Walldo. This isn’t LotWoW.

I could see a Skyrim-ish solution and create a new flag that’ll check for your clan. Logging off in a clanbase could give you a temporary boost of +3 hitroll, logging off in your own home gives you a movement bonus etc.

There should be a way to determine how long the player was logged off for, though, since we don’t want people going on and off simply to replenish the bonus.

Some sort of benefit to logging out via the quit command instead of just going link-dead would be nice. There would have to be some kind of timer on any negative you gave for going link-dead, like a minimum time to be link-dead before you start to accrue a penalty, so that someone with a shoddy internet connection wouldn’t rack them up if they had a bunch of soft disconnects on their network or something like that.

no to penalty for going linkdead…
Maybe some +luck (+2 lck 500 ticks) or some affect for logging out properly for a certain amt of time (1 hr+) would be cool <!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!– s:) –>

I’ve already had an instance this timeline where I absolutely had to go while I was stunned. The ones who stunned me wouldn’t/couldn’t perm/hospitalize me and I sat there stunned waiting for them to decide what they were going to do. Eventually, I was forced to go LD because I had to go. There are also other things that can cause someone to go LD (internet disconnection, etc.) which would be serving only to punish those who have no control of such things. You can’t really do it on a case by case basis because it is impossible to tell if someone is doing it on purpose or not unless you are physically looking at their screen.

As for the [Hotel] logging out bonus, I also say no. As I said before, this isn’t Legends of World of Warcraft. It isn’t really something important and definitely not something that needs to be implemented. There are other things that are more important that need to be looked at/fixed/adjusted [b:1xntersp]in my personal opinion[/b:1xntersp] (key phrase there). However, if the Imms think this is something this should be put in, there isn’t much I can say about that. All I can do is voice my objections to it.

Zeromus reminded me that this is a continuing issue. Any further suggestions? I’d like to start tackling this soon.