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Originally Posted by solidious77
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The second issue being that while this list was implemented to prevent shitty gameplay and monopolization of these items/camps, I'm not sure if its actually accompolishing this.
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This is basically the only problem.
If account sharing was (somehow) prohibited, then basically nobody would be physically able to spend more than maybe 24-36 hours at the came at a time. And since the stones aren't dropping much more often than that, even someone who CAN spend 36 or even 48 hours at the camp in one sitting is FAR from guaranteed to get a stone before he physically passes out on his keyboard from exhaustion. And when people realize this, they won't try to do that. Getting a manastone will suddenly be fairly RNG amongst people who are spending time on the list, since the people on the list and the order they are in will be swapping around a lot inbetween (probably) every manastone drop.
You'd still have better odds of getting a stone sooner than later by spending more hours on the list than the next player is willing/able to, but you wouldn't have the spawn monopolized by people who are willing/able to game the system with account sharing methods.
Loramin's thing is unlikely to stop the monopolization of the camp, imo, because most players even if they win the RNG to get put on the list next are still not going to be able to stay online for 36+ hours to move through the few spots on the list and see a stone drop when they are #1.
Also, shortening the list further won't help, because only the people sharing accounts will have a high chance of knowing when a stone drops and being online at the camp in the window to get put into the lottery to be the next person added to the list.
Best mechanic would be the simplest, imo. A manastone drop randomly goes to anyone who is 35+ and was on the EE aggro list when it died, plus a lockout of at least a month. It's no less classic than any other intervention but it works towards a more classic "result" of VERY few people ending up with multiples and no total bar of casuals getting one like any sort of list system basically results in.