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What is the point of a companion gift cooldown?

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What is the point of a companion gift cooldown?
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NotterTOR
02.20.2012 , 04:42 AM | #41
The reason: if you could spam gifts without cooldown, you would just spam lvl 1 gifts until it would give no more affection.
than you would spam lvl 2 gifts etc.

there would be no point to the higher tier gifts.
the only reason to use high tier gifts is because it saves you time by giving a big amount of affection.

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Hypernetic
02.20.2012 , 04:44 AM | #42
I'm pretty sure it's because the hero engine couldn't handle using gifts with no cooldown.

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corbanite
02.20.2012 , 04:48 AM | #43
SO the big issue is companion gifts have like a 30 second CD.. really. All I can think of is kevin and perry have somehow been cloned and those clones are spamming the forums.

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TheTurniipKing
02.20.2012 , 04:48 AM | #44
Quote: Originally Posted by leojreimroc View Post
I really agree with this post. There really is no purpose in making us wait 30 seconds in order to give our companion another gift.
It's to prevent players from just ignoring their companion until they're 50 and them pummeling them to max with cheap gifts from the market, I assume.

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Hypernetic
02.20.2012 , 04:51 AM | #45
Quote: Originally Posted by TheTurniipKing View Post
It's to prevent players from just ignoring their companion until they're 50 and them pummeling them to max with cheap gifts from the market, I assume.
You can do that anyway.

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ljepsen
02.20.2012 , 05:11 AM | #46
Quote: Originally Posted by NotterTOR View Post

The reason: if you could spam gifts without cooldown, you would just spam lvl 1 gifts until it would give no more affection.
than you would spam lvl 2 gifts etc.

there would be no point to the higher tier gifts.
the only reason to use high tier gifts is because it saves you time by giving a big amount of affection.

You can still do that with the cooldown, just not spam it, so what you are saying really dont make sense.

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Siorac
02.20.2012 , 05:15 AM | #47
It is a timesink. Another, relatively minor timesink but these things add up to keep you in the game for a long time. Because this is an MMO, they all do this, albeit in different ways.

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NotterTOR
02.20.2012 , 05:17 AM | #48
Quote: Originally Posted by ljepsen View Post
You can still do that with the cooldown, just not spam it, so what you are saying really dont make sense.
YOU JUST CONTRADICTED YOURSELF.

you just said:
you can still spam the gifts.
except that you can't spam them.

and that is exactly the point.
you're not supposed to spam them, it's an incentive to use higher tier gifts.
yes YOU CAN use lower tier, but it will take your 30 minutes.

now you understand the point of the cooldown.

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diamondking
02.20.2012 , 05:19 AM | #49
Quote: Originally Posted by Mcfondles View Post
Lol I don't think that's gonna happen.. The cooldown doesn't add any form of immersion.. In fact it takes away from it.. If I wanted to give someone 10 gifts at one time I could..

I wouldn't say "hey happy birthday Bob.. here's one present"... Then awkwardly stare at Bob for 30 seconds until I could give him another.. Another 30 seconds of awkward silence until I give him another present, and so on, and so on...

Would it harm Bob in any way if I overloaded him with presents? Why does he need a present blocking force field to protect him? Are they afraid he is going to get to excited if I give him too much at one time and have a heart attack?
Afraid he's gonna fall under the weight of all your gifts, fall over, get hurt and sue Bioware, that's why there's a cooldown.
"Badges?? We don't need no stinkin' badges!!"

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Traumahawk
02.20.2012 , 05:23 AM | #50
So anyone remember spamming Zandalar tokens a the shrine? Oh yeah, not going to lie, it was the only time I actually used an unattended macro to automate the game.
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