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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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No silly, you don't. What you are suggesting would be "patch day respawns." What has been suggested is "simulated patch day respawns."
The difference between the two concepts is simulation, which is why they used that word.
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Then it's not a simulated
patch day... It would become a ... well not even simulated.. it would basically be every mob in the game randomly respawning at the exact same time. In order to
simulate it like a patch day, it would have to be announced ahead of time. Typically it was estimated when the servers would come up from a patch in classic (usually after a 6 to 8 hour downtime), so it would be sometime in the afternoon... We would have to set a window and let everyone know what it is.
"All mobs will be respawning between 2 and 5 PM EST"...
Seems like kind of a cheat.
Then you don't actually have the downtime.. so people are on the server already, have been killing mobs.. waiting for the random respawn.. hell I bet you raiding guilds would already select out the first target they want and be poopsocking the hell out of it. And in the case of Dark Ascension with their bajillion strong raid force, they would most likely have split their raid force and be poop socking multiple raid mobs.
It wouldn't work out as well as you guys think it would.
Oh and don't even recomend taking the server down to accomplish this.. Raiding guilds are still the minority compared to the rest of the server and we aren't going to inconvenience the masses to appease you.
And I'd also like to mention, when the server is patched.. it happens typically overnight, and is down for 10-30 minutes, and is always
unannounced ahead of time.