To Rogean: Earthquake(s)

[Sallan]

More a question for Rogean I suppose: Will we see random respawns again?

I suppose with the release of velious the larger raiding content pool has been accommodating for guilds (which required monthly respawns to circumvent it a tad during kunark as I understand it).

Albeit not monthly, it would be nice to have an earthquake triggered once every few months to help with the randomness of some NPC timers and not just raid mobs.

The anniversary weekend looms, perhaps one there? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Rogue305]

More Earthquakes would be more classic to me. I started in 2002 one month after Luclin and every patch and the patch to fix a patch gave us Double or triple targets. I can only guess the same was true for classic, kunark and velious. Maybe an older veteran player than me can confirm?

[Man0warr]

It was rare to go more than 2 weeks without a server crash/restart/patch back then.

[Daldaen]

These are all the recorded patches from Velious launch to Luclin launch.

2000 / 12 / 05
2000 / 12 / 06
2000 / 12 / 07
2000 / 12 / 08
2000 / 12 / 19

2001 / 01 / 09
2001 / 01 / 17
2001 / 01 / 24
2001 / 02 / 02
2001 / 02 / 21a
2001 / 02 / 21b
2001 / 03 / 06
2001 / 03 / 14
2001 / 03 / 27
2001 / 03 / 30
2001 / 04 / 04
2001 / 04 / 17a
2001 / 04 / 17b
2001 / 05 / 08
2001 / 05 / 30
2001 / 05 / 31
2001 / 06 / 27
2001 / 07 / 10
2001 / 07 / 24
2001 / 08 / 15
2001 / 08 / 22
2001 / 08 / 29
2001 / 09 / 11a
2001 / 09 / 11b
2001 / 09 / 13
2001 / 09 / 25
2001 / 10 / 08
2001 / 10 / 31
2001 / 11 / 07
2001 / 11 / 08

There are likely some of these that didn't result in server downs (hot fixes etc.) and there are some server downs which weren't the result of a patch. Counting them there's about 35 patches, assuming about 2/3rds of them were server downs you're looking at 2 server downs a month.

I hope they go back to server patches resetting timers and earthquake sim repops to simulate the more frequent patch schedule from live.

[Gimp]

How long has it been since last earthquake? Those used to be awesome in Kunark

[arsenalpow]

There hasn't been an in earthquake in Velious yet unless you count launch day. There was a couple server restarts but Velious didn't repop.

[thedonkdonk]

Originally Posted by arsenalpow [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There was a couple server restarts but Velious didn't repop.

It's neat from a technical perspective that Rogean figured out how to do that but it's not classic.

[Man0warr]

Well in Rogean's eyes the server never goes "down" for patches, he doesn't take it offline like they did on live.

[Swish]

Real thread title and content in a sentence: "we're entitled to more earthquakes".

For that I wouldn't give more earthquakes.

[indiscriminate_hater]

typical BDA entitlement