Decrease Lock Picking Timer Cooldown

[Bix 453]

To like 5 minutes or something.

 

Get rid of cooldown.

 

Discuss.

Edited December 27, 2016 by Bix

[Klaa 4871]

...and then some period of time later, after five minutes seems too long, lets get it shortened again.

[Worksock 465]

Why is there even a cooldown for lockpicking skillgain in the first place? Rather see it removed completely.

[Zekezor 3188]

41 minutes ago, Worksock said:

Why is there even a cooldown for lockpicking skillgain in the first place? Rather see it removed completely.

This.

 

People are already vault shadows etc on both clusters.

The cooldown that seem to have been implemented to slow down progression (yea, there wasnt a CD pre-epic) and to keep "the evil blacklighters from stealing everything" in the early days of epic (there was threads about this where that was the concern raised...) isn't needed.

People are using 90+ ql locks on all clusters and its the norm, thus progression doesn't need to be artifically slowed down.

The effort involved in leveling lockpicking would pretty much remain the same if the cooldown is completely removed and would make it easier for newer players to go raiding.

without high lockpicking a locked ship, cart or chest would stop a raid force in its tracks.

Later on limitations were put in place to prevent multiple people lockpicking the same target at once and therefor all the more reason why i see no reason why the skill should be timelocked.

All it does atm is limit proper use of the skill to older accounts and "the elite" rather than making it a common utility skill in pvp.

Edited December 18, 2016 by Zekezor

[Darklords 2239]

2 hours ago, Zekezor said:

This.

 

People are already vault shadows etc on both clusters.

The cooldown that seem to have been implemented to slow down progression (yea, there wasnt a CD pre-epic) and to keep "the evil blacklighters from stealing everything" in the early days of epic (there was threads about this where that was the concern raised...) isn't needed.

People are using 90+ ql locks on all clusters and its the norm, thus progression doesn't need to be artifically slowed down.

The effort involved in leveling lockpicking would pretty much remain the same if the cooldown is completely removed and would make it easier for newer players to go raiding.

without high lockpicking a locked ship, cart or chest would stop a raid force in its tracks.

Later on limitations were put in place to prevent multiple people lockpicking the same target at once and therefor all the more reason why i see no reason why the skill should be timelocked.

All it does atm is limit proper use of the skill to older accounts and "the elite" rather than making it a common utility skill in pvp.

 

+1, Couldn't have said it better TDLR:Current lockpicking good for us existing pvpers, bad for the new guys

Edited December 18, 2016 by Darklords

[Klaa 4871]

If there's anyone to blame for the current skillgain cooldown, its the idiots who exploited and cheated on the old system.

 

After a few of the more notorious large scale groups were caught, Rolf did a complete overhaul of how lockpicking worked in general, rethought the probability algorithms, and slapped on the skillgain cooldown.

 

Happened to be in IRC at the time, and ended up volunteering to help a bit with the testing along with a couple other players.

[lowborn 149]

Is there still a cooldown? I only ask because it seems most of my skill gains come just after logging in. Well the first or second attempt at picking a lock.

[lowborn 149]

Seems there is a cooldown. For my level it seems I can get a skill gain of .1 every 10 minutes. It only takes one attempt to pick a lock to get that skill gain. Its important to set in settings the frequency of showing your skill gains to always or 0.1 else you wont see the skill gain. Also skill gain may depend on you current skill, quality of lock pick and quality of lock. Not sure about the last two. In order to pick a lock every 10 minutes I set a timer to beep at 10 minutes and carry a small chest to pick whenever and where ever I happen to be. Experiment and tell me of any updates you have to this.

Edited September 21, 2019 by lowborn
update timer

[lowborn 149]

complicated. point is mute as your skill grows it becomes more difficult to gain skill growth takes more hits. So what is learned must be relearned and adjusted. Good luck

 

Edited September 22, 2019 by lowborn