Raid Changes

[gloine36]

Personally, I think my raid issues will be solved when EQNext comes out. At the moment grad school is doing a hell of a job solving my raid problems. No time to play = No raids to worry about!

[Silo69]

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

This is a continuation from the other thread ( http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=86005 ).

Here is what nilbog and I are currently planning/designing/brainstorming:

We will be cutting the variance in half on the existing raid spawns.

We will be implementing an FTE notice of some sort, whether this is an emote or some type of message.

We will be implementing a simulated patch day respawn. Here is how it will work.

The server will pick one day of each week (Random 1 to 7, Sunday through Saturday). It will then pick a random time. I will not disclose the range of the possible times, but it will only include afternoon and evening hours, so as to give the best chance for the most people to benefit from it.

A serverwide message will go off indicating that the simulated patch day respawn has or will be taking effect shortly. All raid mobs will (either immediately, delayed, or spanned, tbd) respawn.

These respawns will NOT affect the normal respawn times of the mob. For example. If Talendor was killed on Monday, and on death the server determined he would spawn again on Sunday. A simulated patch day occurs on Thursday, his death on Thursday will not reset his scheduled respawn time on Sunday.
Exception: If the mob's spawn time is scheduled to occur within (To be determined, probably either 6 or 12 hours) of the simulated patch day respawn, it will calculate a new spawn time for the mob as it would had he been killed normally, when he dies from the simulated respawn.

Discuss, and know that this system is not final, now or even when it goes live. We will evaluate how it plays out.

200% on board, not even gonna scroll through and read one post or opinion.

I work and have a family and this is great. It will flood some items in the economy, but it wont destroy it. If anything this will gear us up for vel, it will induce end game players to gear out to the max and force them through bordom to reroll alts wich will increase population. Nothing like lfg as a casual with no one in your lvl range.

<3 Rogean current raid scene is a cluster FUK, 150 people on a Friday night waiting for trak to spawn. To lose the spawn to FTE to the guild with the least amount of people on spawn, who normally would not be able to do the encounter without the 2 larger guilds plvling there raid scene.

GG

[Tarathiel]

Originally Posted by Silo69 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

who normally would not be able to do the encounter without the 2 larger guilds plvling there raid scene.

GG

really now?

[Splorf22]

Bump for the future!

[Autotune]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bump for the future!

Promises change, delivers nothing.

Rogean = Obama

[Kender]

how about making it really classic

dont just stop at extr spawns of bosses... do the full reset (with appropriate variances).

dont just stop at the full reset either... take the server down. have a random variance for it coming back up (1-30 mins).

Half the excitment of a server reset on live was sitting there waiting for the servers to come back up so you could log in and check what was up immediately.

[doraf]

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

how about making it really classic

dont just stop at extr spawns of bosses... do the full reset (with appropriate variances).

dont just stop at the full reset either... take the server down. have a random variance for it coming back up (1-30 mins).

Half the excitment of a server reset on live was sitting there waiting for the servers to come back up so you could log in and check what was up immediately.

+1

[Splorf22]

Hmm I just had a random idea. The biggest problem with variance is the tracking. What if each guild got to pick 1 mob, and when that mob spawned a message would be broadcast in guild chat?

[McMuffins]

I feel that this is an unclassic step. Correct me if I'm wrong.

This is an odd solution for a problem generated by arbitrary rules.

The only reason you need the raiding rules is because people were being assholes, or one guild was camping all the monsters. You know what, that's fine. Because the solution is for the player to join or fight or compromise with the top guilds.

I don't believe in care bears, it's a stupid term. I do believe that people get upset and would like easier solutions to problems that are made simply because they didn't get what they wanted.

In summary, fuck raiding rules, make people solve the issues themselves, this is everquest the original, not a fucking modern day power to the player mmo.

Play nice policy? Sure, don't train people, don't be retarded.

Solutions to the people who are complaining? Sure, but only if you're really really tired of hearing them complain and they won't compromise, join or fight.

TL;DR
Don't give in, remove all rules but play nice policy and make the players work with the guilds that are doing the killing.

If you're trying to remove tracking of monsters, (Real time in-game person all up in the nerd on their computer) then that's dumb, because that's a person putting in dedicated nerd time to empower their guild and themselves.

I've never done tracking, I don't play on blue, this is just my thoughts.

[Diggles]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hmm I just had a random idea. The biggest problem with variance is the tracking. What if each guild got to pick 1 mob, and when that mob spawned a message would be broadcast in guild chat?

like, assigning a boss to a guild? or just giving all guilds a heads up through gchat?