Proposal: Chei and timed portals

[Yermak]

Let Cheibriados reduce rate at which timed portals dissappear. It's almost impossible to visit double portal on a floor and even one portal becomes inaccessible often even if no time spent on healing.

[spudwalt]

This seems reasonable. I mean, he already slows down the orb run and Abyss changing.

[damiac]

Hell, it's Chei. Let's give him a bonus, and just make him completely stop the clock on timed portals.
"You hear the ticking of a clock"
"Chei tells you 'No rush'"
"You hear the clock stop"

[Bloax]

Hell, it's Chei. Let's give him a bonus, and just make him completely stop the clock on timed portals.
"You hear the ticking of a clock"
"Chei tells you 'No rush'"
"You hear the clock stop"

"Cheibriados tells it to take it easy."

[jejorda2]

What if, just so there is some kind of decision making, the timer starts back when you use one of Chei's invocations? That way there is still some strategy involved.

[nicolae]

What if, just so there is some kind of decision making, the timer starts back when you use one of Chei's invocations? That way there is still some strategy involved.

Keeping it slowed down but not stopped entirely would still require making a decision. You theoretically have more time to earn experience and find gear before doing the portal, but you're also following Chei, and will presumably have less efficient use of that extra time.

[khalil]

I allways assumed the point of chei slowing down things was so they'd happen at rate which (by your scale) is the same as that you would get if you didn't have lead weights for feet.

[damiac]

I allways assumed the point of chei slowing down things was so they'd happen at rate which (by your scale) is the same as that you would get if you didn't have lead weights for feet.

I believe you're correct about that, but what I was saying is, it's Chei, already thought to be one of the weaker gods. So why not give him a little tiny buff, and make a Chei character actually have an advantage in these timed situations. It makes perfect sense for Chei, he doesn't want you rushing to that labyrinth, so he should make sure you don't have to rush.

[Sprucery]

Yes, Chei stopping portal clocks sounds solid to me. Could be tied to some level of piety.

[khalil]

Perhaps it slows based on piety, starting off at timed portals being (by your scale) slightly quicker than they are for everyone else, and when you reach max piety the timed portals stay around until you want to enter them.

[dpeg]

This sounds good to me. If there's no objection to this until the thread disappears (and I still recall the proposal ), I may turn this into an implementable.

[Kate]

This is just one of the downsides of being slow. The Abyss and orb run are currently exceptions there, but those are notably not optional parts of the game (in the case of banishment for the Abyss at least). Portal vaults being more difficult to reach in time seems not at all problematic here, especially since it's possible to use consumables to find them quicker.