Posted 18 March 2010 - 18:15
3-5 seconds should be sufficient (closer to 10 sec would be preferred), dropping this below this would mostly nullify what the cows were trying to accomplish, which is getting more people involved in titan hunting.
I honestly don't see how Titan hunts taking longer is a bad thing. Heck, even if they took a few days that would be cool. Maybe even "Epic". Considering that many of the titans spawn during the work day here in the US, a large portion of the patrons of this game are not even able to participate since they are dead before we get home from work. The only real way a guild has a shot at a titan right now is if they have a group of hunters sitting at their computers waiting for a titan to spawn. Now, those of us with lives outside of the game, will get an opportunity to go out ant titan hunt it for a while, rather than getting both the release and kill messages at the same time.
Seems like the only people complaining about this are the ones with fast connections that expect to be able to kill the titan with an hour or two of work. Well not it will take several hours, I don't see the problem.
Its true that FFS will probably still have the upper hand, but this update will give more people the opportunity to enjoy titan hunting.
I have two requests for HCS.
1) Please move the delay back up to at least 10 sec. You set it at 20 sec for a reason. I'm sure that reason was thought though before settling on that number. Then it was changed to a MUCH lower number with far less time to consider than was given to the original time AND without taking the time to see what the REAL effect would be.
2) Consider lowering the Titan HP by 1/2 or 1/4.