A Poll on Variance

[Ravager]

Where's the option that says no variance with forced rotations?

[Thulack]

There is FTE shout now. Take some exlax and let the poop flow.

[Thulack]

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

Where's the option that says no variance with forced rotations?

Pointless to put as option as dev's have said they wont force a rotation.

[zanderklocke]

In my opinion, Nilbog would be in favor of removing variance to make the game more classic, and as long as FTE shouts determined who had the mob even without variance existing, I would think that Rogean wouldn't really care if variance existed or not. I tend to interpret Rogean liking whatever gives him the least biggest headache in terms of sorting out player disputes. No idea what the other GMs would think?

EDIT: Shit who am I kidding, I have no idea what the motives of the staff are and what they would/wouldn't support based on player consensus.

However, in a dream world, which I don't believe would happen because it isn't classic, I would think it would be cool if all the mobs spawned simultaneously at a random time each week. This time would be based off variance. Players would receive a notification of like 30 mins to an hour before it happened maybe via a server wide message? Then everyone would race to the mobs, and the time each week this happened would be random to not screw over Euro people or anyone else in a different time zone from the majority. I want to distinguish that this is different from server repops; I mean this is the only way raid targets would pop. Not sure how this would work for mobs that are a less than 7 day timer like Trak/Maestro.

[Cecily]

Everything is fine the way it currently is on the server.

[Stinkum]

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

Everything is fine the way it currently is on the server.

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[Sarius]

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

Everything is fine the way it currently is on the server.

Back to RnF with you she-devil!

[webrunner5]

This is just a wild guess on my part but I think the reason there is variance on here, and Nilbog, Rogean, Sirken are so hands off on this is that they have RL jobs, and I would assume families.

Any other method would mean a lot more hands on, ergo, time out of their lives to do this. I think they just don't want to be bothered and I don't blame them. They probably devote a LOT more time to this server than you think the way it is.

[Sarius]

How would other methods require a lot more hands on time?

[Dentalplan]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is just a wild guess on my part but I think the reason there is variance on here, and Nilbog, Rogean, Sirken are so hands off on this is that they have RL jobs, and I would assume families.

Any other method would mean a lot more hands on, ergo, time out of their lives to do this. I think they just don't want to be bothered and I don't blame them. They probably devote a LOT more time to this server than you think the way it is.

With the FTE shouts in there's no extra work created for the gms when multiple parties are vying for FTE, since everyone can see who got it. There's really no reason to keep variance in at this point except to preserve the status quo.