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SmittyW

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Were portals always random?

If you have a single portal link to multiple portals of the same id, which portal you come out of seems random. Has it always been like this? I thought it used to only teleport to the first one you placed, but I'm probably wrong. My question is, was it always like this or is this new? I feel like it is otherwise I would have seen people using this feature...

some woman

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Re: Were portals always random?

pretty sure it is new
different suggested it a while back

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SmittyW

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Re: Were portals always random?

Toop also designed green portals to have the same function, but that idea was scrapped quite some time ago. Perhaps this is their alternative solution?

Priddle

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Re: Were portals always random?

Toop also designed green portals to have the same function, but that idea was scrapped quite some time ago. Perhaps this is their alternative solution?

Correct.

hummerz5

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Re: Were portals always random?

Yeah, I think there was some predetermined method for handling duplicate portals

I thought it was something related to either world position or placement order.

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rgl32

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Re: Were portals always random?

If you were curious, the way portals worked before is that it chose one of the random portals of the same ID and stayed like that until a user rejoined the level, mentioned here.

Not sure why they changed it though, I mean this way makes much more sense, but it does change something that people used in the past.