then by all means, feel free to skip over to that other player's planet! This has been brought up (and actually done) ICly, but we felt an official mod statement might be necessary.

If you want an explanation on how this is accomplished: you go through your character's second gate, then the second gate of your server's planet, etc etc until you reach the planet you're looking for!

(Or for going through your client player's planet, Return Nodes are used.)

You're not actually required to interact with the players on planets that you skipped - I doubt that in canon, many people wanted to stay on LOWAA for very long because Eridan, after all -

so if your server/client is MIA at the moment, then don't worry about having to go through them to meet up with a player who is earlier/later in the chain.

We think we're at the point in the game where it's very plausible for people to have alchemized their own rad travel gear, so go nuts.

AKA: Let the planet jumping commence?

Oh really, you can go to your client player's planet through the return nodes?

Neat.

well, i've been under the assumption that this is possible, orz

it would make things so much easier besides

according to the wiki they're mainly used for returning to your home/hive, but they're apparently all over the place,

so it's reasonable to assume they can send you backwards in the chain, too

while return nodes to other planets aren't specifically mentioned in canon, i too think it's a reasonable assumption and frankly worth using in game because dang that is convenient

yeah we need some convenience over here

so Lily doesn't have to hop 6 more worlds to get back to her own from Wess'.

XD

hehehe

AKA: Er'rybody jump to er'rywhere, the game, the modplurk, the potato!

I was under the assumption that

return nodes were exclusively for returning to hives

this is likely the case in canon, but return nodes are only mentioned once and never really elaborated on, so we think it's a reasonable stretch to allow them to return to hives on other planets as well

besides, it will make it easier for players to meet up and interact, and that's always a good thing

oh so this it's ok to mess with canon on

for the sake of encouraging activity and player interaction, yes, we believe that this small assumption is reasonable

well we've already stretched canon a good bit with other things, also reasonable

what I mean is that what can be 'messed with' in regards to canon seems to be getting picked for the sake of supposedly encouraging interaction or whatever

when doing so previously hasn't really worked, while other things get shot down because there's 'not enough canon evidence'

I don't know, I haven't seen these other suggestions from the past.

course I don't pay enough attention to the suggestions since I don't really have much of a say in them and know too little about the canon

also looking at the page on return nodes on the wiki

they seem to be in the colors corresponding to players , and in the canon usage have dumped people (Jade and John) into their homes

they're used to go back through the gate that led them to the same area, to my recollection

and I'd like to point out that using the fact that the wiki states that it's 'not known if they all return to the same place' is about as hypocritical as it gets considering the lack of information

considering the lack of activity lately due to finals the convenience aspect is at least something that should be considered for this.

that's my two cents on the matter

to be fair a lot of the inactivity was happening long before finals

so frankly, I don't really want to hear that?

like I understand that a lot of players did have finals and such

but finals don't last two or three months

I wasn't here for the past two or three months really actively so I didn't know that?

that's my two cents, it's not a decision but merely my opinion, so I really don't want to argue with you about this

and frankly I don't need to because I'm not a mod.

sig, i hear your concerns, and let me say that other decisions on canon are still open to revision. we're just making a judgement call on return nodes for the sake of activity

i care about canon a real whole lot, but there comes a point when you have to bend the rules to make things work

yes, I know that- and rules have been bent before in the game and I haven't minded

because it made sense for them to be

but there's always the issue that no matter what you do

people will always complain that you either didn't do enough or you did too much

this is true, and it's hard to find the balance of how much canon bending is actually appropriate

generally we try to make decisions based on whether it will help the game to flourish or help players plot for their characters, but we're not perfect

Overall easy answer::

Somehow, some way, your character can get from Planet A to Planet B.

... within the session, anyway.

Still no going from Kid to Alpha planets or Beta to Alpha etc etc.