A modest proposal

[Goobles]

Everyone has been talking about variance. Here's a proposal that I think satisfies all sides:

Currently, there are two spawns:

First, is the world timer spawns, which are 3 to 7 days for respective mobs, and are split so that 1 guild can stake claim to, and govern their spawn timers.

Second, is the "random" respawns that seems to be controlled by GMs, which give a second serving of mobs, not sharing the worldtimer, also not encouraging any pvp competition for

Back in the days of Sony, mobs respawned after servers were hard reset, after a patch, generally on Tuesday afternoons. My proposal is that there be a hard code to emulate a hard reset, scaling in 7% increments. For example:

Server resets on Sunday at a random time.
7% chance for reset on Monday
14% Tuesday
21% Wednesday
28% Thursday

and so on.

Furthermore, the resets should be random between peak times, such as 7pm-12am EST, which gives a 5 hour window.

I think this is better than to have random spawn timers for individual mobs. I'm interested in hearing thoughts, and please, keep this thread a productive, non-flame thread. I'm asking for moderation in here if people start flaming and get off track.

I think this will also encourage people to be online more often, rather than a few days a week where they get to 'choose' the raids they want to partake in.