Pause timers while at home.

sPark101

Often times I feel like working on my house or crafting their but feel pressured to leave simply because I have an experience buff or meal buff slowly ticking down. Can buffs be paused ?

spartaxoxo

I like this idea.

TaSheen

The exp buff, I agree with completely. The meal buff, not so much.... I can't be the only one who has gazoolas of food? Not just daily reward chicken - I craft buff food for each character a stack at a time (though I must say, I don't really use anything that needs Perfect Roe....)

katanagirl1

I have a lot of food ingredients in my craft bag, but I hate to waste a food buff so I do the same.

DragonRacer

I definitely support this idea. Wish the timer would pause during ToT as well.

fizl101

Dummy parsers will like it if their food doesn't run out!

I don't think it makes sense though, game time doesn't stop because you are in your home or playing cards. I'm sure very few people would complain if it was implemented however

CameraBeardThePirate

TaSheen wrote: »

The exp buff, I agree with completely. The meal buff, not so much.... I can't be the only one who has gazoolas of food? Not just daily reward chicken - I craft buff food for each character a stack at a time (though I must say, I don't really use anything that needs Perfect Roe....)

Sure, but right now in PvP Orzorgas Smoked Bear Haunch is used a lot, and that stuff is insanely expensive. Would be nice if the timer paused while home. Would also legitimately encourage me to do more with housing if I didn't have to throw away my food buffs.

TaSheen

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

The exp buff, I agree with completely. The meal buff, not so much.... I can't be the only one who has gazoolas of food? Not just daily reward chicken - I craft buff food for each character a stack at a time (though I must say, I don't really use anything that needs Perfect Roe....)

Sure, but right now in PvP Orzorgas Smoked Bear Haunch is used a lot, and that stuff is insanely expensive. Would be nice if the timer paused while home. Would also legitimately encourage me to do more with housing if I didn't have to throw away my food buffs.

Oh, since I don't pvp, I really have no clue about what food y'all use or how expensive. So I see that can be an issue....

DMuehlhausen

Sorry, but no. You're still playing the game and in the world choosing to not take advantage of your food / xp buff or whatever.

Nestor

Experience buff should pause.

Food buffs, keep them running.

miteba

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

Sorry, but no. (...) not take advantage of your food / xp buff or whatever.

A housing timer? What advantages are you talking about? Inspiration XP from your craft tables?

Sorry, but yes. An awesome idea.

CameraBeardThePirate

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

Sorry, but no. You're still playing the game and in the world choosing to not take advantage of your food / xp buff or whatever.

Right, I should have to burn gold because the BG queue is taking forever and wasting my food timers.

isadoraisacat

It would be helpful in towns / crafting / doing writs out of combat if food buffs pause. I think there should be a way to pause them and reactivate once going back into Overland / dungeons etc. but if you are in your home or in town doing writs it shouldn’t continue to count down.

Northwold

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

Sorry, but no. You're still playing the game and in the world choosing to not take advantage of your food / xp buff or whatever.

So what? What's lost by pausing the timers?

disintegr8

Not needed and I'd rather the devs work on fixing real problems.

Maybe you could simply plan your session a little better and time when you do or don't start any buffs.

katanagirl1

What about parsing food like Ghastly Eyeball though, it lasts 2 hours. I’m not going to parse that long.

Kite42

What's the point of parsing with a food buff though? Isn't the point of parsing that it's the same baseline for everyone, or are resource levels needed to be kept up?

jad11mumbler

Northwold wrote: »

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

Sorry, but no. You're still playing the game and in the world choosing to not take advantage of your food / xp buff or whatever.

So what? What's lost by pausing the timers?

The extra server calculations alone don't seem worth it.
Having to track if everyone with a timer has entered a house or not, then track what it's paused at, etc,

ZoS has been trying to reduce server load, such as removing timers for things so they reset at the same daily reset time every 24 hours.
That & EXP pots are cheap and scrolls are common. So it's even less worth it to add this system so players can save what, 20 mins of an EXP buff?

katanagirl1

Kite42 wrote: »

What's the point of parsing with a food buff though? Isn't the point of parsing that it's the same baseline for everyone, or are resource levels needed to be kept up?

You want to run food while parsing to get max resources and regen for max damage.

I guess you are usually doing this in a house so my point might be moot, though.

BenTSG

I'd be all for this! A small little thing, and adds one more feature and use to owning a home!

Hapexamendios

Don't see the need for it myself.

Dr_Con

has been suggested, this suggestion and ones like it get shot down by people for many reasons.


food buffs might need some extra consideration to separate from combat buffs also, for dummy/parse reasons (which is in the game and must be considered)- so it's not a simple 1 to 0 needing to be changed. If ZOS considers this, give them time to implement (though it would really be nice of them to confirm this as a feature without a topic needing to be made every other month)

Northwold

If people are using a combat dummy I'm not really seeing the harm in pausing the timer while keeping the food buff active? Does every suggestion *really* need to be shot down because it wasn't like that in other people's day? It gets a bit wearing.

It's of no interest to me personally, but I can see logical reasons why people might want this.

Most obviously if they're using crown experience scrolls (the things last for two hours so the suggestion that people plan their playing around that is surely only appropriate for people who spend an actually unhealthy amount of time playing video games in the first place) or something they're wasted if you're in your house, and if people wanted to try out their moves on a dummy with a rare food without wasting the lot, well, why not?