Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

DaloLorn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:26 am I feel that the rest timer is generally not the problem, so much as rest locations.

The Netherese complex is a particularly egregious example: It lasts like an hour, but once you've transitioned from Durlag's (or Illithid Mines), there's not a single rest zone to be found, and you're being hammered with Disjunctions the whole time you're navigating the Shadow Ruins. Barring powerbuilds and/or obscene amounts of consumables, any class that relies on frequent resting (i.e. pretty much anything that isn't a warlock, fighter, hunter, rogue, swashbuckler, or maybe monk) will be completely drained before they've found their way through the dungeon.

Aspect of Sorrow wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:07 pm ...players can opt to find their preferred resting location that is beyond the standard faire of predefined safe spots, and perform their rest there. The gold cost is small for that convenience, and the spawner system can acknowledge the resting location to not interfere, or perhaps a low percentage of waylay (2% at best in my opinion, but that number can be best left to the playerbase). This then gives the players the additional rest location opportunity, devs having less to modify to support it, and is opt-in with no change to the default functionality of resting.

Riddance wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:12 pm Not actively against the idea but have something to add

Food

We already have this in-game, so why we can't use food items instead of gold cost? Not like you -have to- have food but you can either take item with you - and then rest is free if we talking about PC house/Guild/Wilderness, or you don't have it and pay some gold upon rest (idea is the same as crafting feats - you pay gold for things you were supposed to buy/find some time ago)

DaloLorn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:26 am I feel that the rest timer is generally not the problem, so much as rest locations.

Partial rests might also be a useful option for some classes, but I'm fuzzy on how one might go about designing those, much less balancing them.

There's no proposal to change the current rest experience, just an opt-in option toward reducing the time with a cost/requisite.

selhan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:20 am In my opinion :
Resting in - Player House, Guild Hall, Inn's and Temples should be absolutely free of cost. Housing was a large cost, Guild Halls are a large cost, Inn's key to a room costs, Temples well more of a religious aspect.

selhan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:20 am Don't allow resting in random areas "Unless the player has Camping equipment"

blazerules wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:30 am Also note its common good practice to rest on server transition or reset because some stuff breaks unless you rest to "fix" it.

Goat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 7:58 pm To me this is just an unneeded addition where you're getting to the point of it not being a 'game' and more 'real life' which to me, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by getting with the times with this kind of change though. Rather to me it doesn't add anything but an extra un-needed maintenance for yourself. It doesn't really fix economy (or won't.) It's just some flavour added but to me just reduces the overall means for simplicity.

I am interested in the half level/duration stuff when it comes to camping equipment however, and it costing, (or maybe in some cases as you say rangers/druids.) but when it comes to regular resting, I'm not really caring for adding a cost there, but that's just my own say. Things that ALTER the current rest system CAN be charged with items and whatnot. Aka prebought things.