dargonhuman Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Got a Daily challenge to plant an herb seed; didn't feel like messing with the main herb patches since they all had stuff growing already so I 'ported to Trollweiss to use My Arm's patch. I arrived at the exact same time as another person who was apparently heading the same direction, but we both decided to take different routes. I followed the windy path down where he took the Agility shortcuts; I expected him to get to the ladder leading into the mountain way before me since he was using the shortcuts.He didn't.In fact, despite my wearing much heavier equipment than him, I actually got to the ladder first. Once inside, he easily outpaced me, but when he took the "shortcuts", I was able to run right past him while he was still stuck halfway through the climbing animations.So I guess the lesson here is, use the shortcuts if you want the EXP, but if you're looking to save time, just go the "long" way since it's apparently faster.* *Okay, the real lesson here is Jagex needs to scale back many of the animations or time them faster. Between that and the "lean" and "stand" animations in Tears of Guthix minigame still being too long (not to mention the many other time-intensive animations that could be made faster, shorter, etc), we're wasting a lot of game time waiting for animations that shouldn't be wasted. Part of the Star Traks network. (^^Clicky!) Irony: An amnesiac rediscovering they have an eidetic memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 The animations don't affect the mechanics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai_tong Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 One or two are worth using. Or were worth using, the time taken to climb them was changed twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollyroger Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 The animations don't affect the mechanics. As far as timing... they most certainly do. Agility shortcuts aren't the only thing affected, either. C'mon, man, this has been noticed before, so it's not like some fluke new thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai_tong Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 The animations don't affect the mechanics. As far as timing... they most certainly do. Agility shortcuts aren't the only thing affected, either. C'mon, man, this has been noticed before, so it's not like some fluke new thing.Hedgehog is talking about the graphics which is what animation refers to. Jagex could set the time to go from one end of a shortcut pipe to the other as being 3 seconds but make a 20 second animation of someone struggling through a pipe. If you clicked to go through the pipe you would see yourself going through a pipe for 20 seconds but after 3 second you'd be able to continue running, when 20 seconds are up you would see the graphics jump to where you had run to in the extra 17 seconds.This kind of effect is actually in the game in many places. When you go on the rope swing at the barbarian course you can run to the log 1.8 seconds before the animation for swinging on the rope finishes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ahnaf Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 The animations don't affect the mechanics. As far as timing... they most certainly do. Agility shortcuts aren't the only thing affected, either. C'mon, man, this has been noticed before, so it's not like some fluke new thing.Hedgehog is talking about the graphics which is what animation refers to. Jagex could set the time to go from one end of a shortcut pipe to the other as being 3 seconds but make a 20 second animation of someone struggling through a pipe. If you clicked to go through the pipe you would see yourself going through a pipe for 20 seconds but after 3 second you'd be able to continue running, when 20 seconds are up you would see the graphics jump to where you had run to in the extra 17 seconds.This kind of effect is actually in the game in many places. When you go on the rope swing at the barbarian course you can run to the log 1.8 seconds before the animation for swinging on the rope finishes. The animation sync should really be fixed, it gets really annoying especially in Tears of Guthix like he said. My Stats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faststrike The Naabe Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 This game needs more shortcuts, cause right now agile is useless and either costs hundreds of mil to max, or hundreds of hours :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze The Movie Fan Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 That's the reason I don't like using the agility skill, there is no point. Even those that do work like shortcuts are supposed to work aren't worth it because you have to spend five minutes at most going the long way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceus Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Try killing Giant Mole without them, hehe. Then again, who kills the mole for more then sport anyway? :P "Fight for what you believe in, and believe in what you're fighting for." Can games be art? --- My blog here if you want to check out my Times articles and other writings! I always appreciate comments/feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peever Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Noticed the troll short cut being worthless sometime ago. Only one I really use anymore (which is still rarely) is the one in taverly dungeon that cuts to blue dragons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Lioness Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Noticed the troll short cut being worthless sometime ago. Only one I really use anymore (which is still rarely) is the one in taverly dungeon that cuts to blue dragons. And the other side to hellhounds. 1 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?~ Marianne Williamson For account help/issues, please follow this link: Account Help. If you need further assistance, do not hesitate to PM me or post here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze The Movie Fan Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Only one I really use anymore (which is still rarely) is the one in taverly dungeon that cuts to blue dragons. I personally don't use that dungeon anymore. All monsters I can kill in there have better location where a stupid key or ridiculously high agility levels are not needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peever Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Noticed the troll short cut being worthless sometime ago. Only one I really use anymore (which is still rarely) is the one in taverly dungeon that cuts to blue dragons. And the other side to hellhounds. Which I always forget about....... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dargonhuman Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 This game needs more shortcuts, cause right now agile is uselessThe only reason I even train it is for prerequisites (quests requirements, unlocking equipment, etc.) Otherwise, yea, there's not much point. Part of the Star Traks network. (^^Clicky!) Irony: An amnesiac rediscovering they have an eidetic memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essiw Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 This game needs more shortcuts, cause right now agile is useless The only reason I even train it is for prerequisites (quests requirements, unlocking equipment, etc.) Otherwise, yea, there's not much point.It helps a bit for thieving and fishing though :p http://sign.tip.it/1/2/79/260/essiw.png Retired item crew I would like to be credited as essiw at the website update & corrections forum. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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