How about allowing healers to gate to ghosts?
Gate
Why?
They can already locate your corpse to find it.
Gating to players was stopped for a reason...
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I like the idea. I think it makes sense RP wise as well. I always thought gate should just have a toggle flag, like nosummon.
There's a difference between gating to Ghosts and gating to someone who's alive. I see no problem with gating to ghosts, the abuse of gating to a person as a Healer to give away positions went against their RP anyways as they could be going to pinpoint the location of someone for another person to kill. Going to a ghost just means they're near their corpse and you can gate to them so you could resurrect them. It's not like they'd be killing them or anything.
Well a toggle called 'nogate' would allow you to let healers gate to you. Would return the enjoyment of gate without allowing abuse.
Ah, abuse is a funny thing that morphs into a thousand more heads, each worse then the last.
I can think of an abuse for that right there that would make a certain cabal unstoppable.
How about change gate to ONLY gate to ghosts:)
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Well a toggle called 'nogate' would allow you to let healers gate to you. Would return the enjoyment of gate without allowing abuse.
Are you saying you used to play healers? 
I never saw Gate as a problem before. If it broke RP, they would be outcasted. That seems better than the current state of it. Of course, I am old school and was a big fan of Healers (Rowan anyone?). Gating to someone, say an Undead, and pointing out their location isn't against RP for a Healer. Or their enemy cabal. Don't like it? Set a trap for them then and bust them up. I had that happen on more than one occasion back in 2.0.
Maybe I'm worng on this - but I thought ghosts only came about once the corpse decomposed into nothing? At that point, there is nothing left to loot, nothing left to ressurrect, nothing to do but "Look! It's a ghost!"
Am I off here in my understanding? If not... what would it harm to be able to gate to it? And at the same time... what bloody purpose would it serve?
I believe he means the ghost (player), not the ghost (mob) that comes around after the corpse decomposes.
I don't see how it is needed, as you can locate the corpse.
The ghost mob starts walking to the corpse as soon as you die I'm pretty sure. Something for a new player to follow to his corpse if he doesn't know the way.
Actually, the mob walks from the corpse to the person's pit.
Although that is actually a very good suggestion hidden within your mistake, Matt.
I swear I've seen that thing leave a pit holding a cardboard sign saying, in black marker, "Boogum or bust." You know, if he doesn't have some sort of mental disability he really aught to get a job. There's no poor me excuses in FL. No medicare, welfare, or social security. I bet you there's a spot open on the duck assembly line. Some benefits? A duck to eat every night if nothing else.
A ghost is any freshly dead character. You are thinking of Spirits, that lead people to their corpses (for newbies, really).
Maybe I'm worng on this - but I thought ghosts only came about once the corpse decomposed into nothing? At that point, there is nothing left to loot, nothing left to ressurrect, nothing to do but "Look! It's a ghost!"
Am I off here in my understanding? If not... what would it harm to be able to gate to it? And at the same time... what bloody purpose would it serve?
I could've swore it was a spirit rather than a ghost that comes out of the corpse and moves to the pit rather than a ghost. It wouldn't really make any sense if it were a ghost because the player themselves is already a ghost, a spirit isn't a ghost at all IMO. It's been a while since I've paid attention to the MOB though, could be a ghost, but I could've swore it was a Spirit.
When you're done arguing with yourself Tant - you let us know what you decided.
Wasn't arguing with myself, pondering whether or not it's a ghost or spirit and which made more sense.
Healers can already get to anywhere on the mud, almost any zone, with one spell.
You really think they need it even easier???