Custom content - how much is too much?

[LittleSorcerer7]

AA's love hen so much

[Zekayy]

Rogean Ripped out the code AAs

[Dreenk317]

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

No point in more zones, so many dungeons on the untrodden path of P99. Adventurers hardly set foot in Dalnir, Kaesora, Nurga, Droga, Runnyeye, Hole, Warrens, Permafrost, CazicThule, Paw, Najena, Befallen...toons are hardly even down in LGuk...
Now we have Stonebrunt as well.

Could see one more high level zone being added tho, but we all go to Seb anyway?

I remember on shards of dalaya, they somehow coded mobs to have individual exp bonuses. These bonuses increased from 0% to 25% iirc. And it increased by 1% for every 15 minutes the mob had been spawned. Therefore it was more profitable, exp wise, to hunt in the less popular zones. And even rotate a couple dungeons near portal rings, that you could travel to quickly. As changing zones allowed more exp than sitting at one camp all day.

I thought it was really good idea personally.

[Cave Troll]

shards was an amazing project

unfortunately it was plagued by the second worst project managment team in the emulated game industry

can you guess the first?

[MammothMafia]

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

I'm not saying that it isn't fun for them or others who do these things, just that creating new custom content that is intended for use by the best of the best will have no effect on freeing up existing content. Any server pop/earthquake proves exactly what will happen if more raid targets are added.

How many years and people have been trying to figure this out? The solution is simple. Create content that actually takes time to raid.
Currently not a single encounter takes these top guilds longer than 10-20 minutes to down so of course they can down 10 targets in an evening sitting. Create a raid that actually takes 4 hours to consume, make 2 or 3 of them. Boom now all of the sudden the top guilds are busy for the next 4 hours. The smaller guilds would actually be able to try some of the classic content. They can wipe, try again, call in another guild to help, ect. Everyone enjoying content. Problem solved.

[fadetree]

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

How many years and people have been trying to figure this out? The solution is simple. Create content that actually takes time to raid.
Currently not a single encounter takes these top guilds longer than 10-20 minutes to down so of course they can down 10 targets in an evening sitting. Create a raid that actually takes 4 hours to consume, make 2 or 3 of them. Boom now all of the sudden the top guilds are busy for the next 4 hours. The smaller guilds would actually be able to try some of the classic content. They can wipe, try again, call in another guild to help, ect. Everyone enjoying content. Problem solved.

Nope. People get mad that you're just adding insane difficulty and random timesinks, and then they solve it anyway, and then you're back to where you started. Adding real, engaging 'difficulty' that lasts is hard as hell, and may actually be impossible.

[Ivory]

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

How many years and people have been trying to figure this out? The solution is simple. Create content that actually takes time to raid.
Currently not a single encounter takes these top guilds longer than 10-20 minutes to down so of course they can down 10 targets in an evening sitting. Create a raid that actually takes 4 hours to consume, make 2 or 3 of them. Boom now all of the sudden the top guilds are busy for the next 4 hours. The smaller guilds would actually be able to try some of the classic content. They can wipe, try again, call in another guild to help, ect. Everyone enjoying content. Problem solved.

Instead of trying to re-create entire games worth of content that actually provides challenges...

The real solution is far more simple. Just lower the level cap to 39 and ALL the end game content gets a HUGE boost in difficulty.

Players would need to invent entire new strategies to take on "rinse and repeat" raid mobs. Without adding anything new, suddenly everything would seem like new again through the eyes of a top raiding guild of level 39ers.

[Xzavie]

The solution is simple. Its already been laid out and tested in this game and others. Its called instanced raiding. You all are trying to re-invent the wheel.

[Swish]

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

The solution is simple. Its already been laid out and tested in this game and others. Its called instanced raiding. You all are trying to re-invent the wheel.

I hope that never happens here, above all else. The spirit of EQ when it was made wasn't to disappear into 20 different instances of the same zone. I'd like to have a community here unlike other MMOs/TLP servers.

For me, that's going too far... but I understand why blue players would like their own space in what's quite an overcrowded top end server.

[PL_Barton]

1. Add random monthly ZEMs to unused zones to diversify leveling.
2. Add raid chat ffs.
3. Add any zone from later expansions that fit into the existing continents (aside from instanced zones)...I'm looking at the fake wall in Oasis, and the zone of Surefall Glades(sp)
4. Shake up the loot in all unused zones making it worthwhile to go there.
5. Active some of the oldschool druid/wizard spires making the spells quest only.

Plane of the Underfoot would be pretty epic. The Hole is one of my favorite zones in the game and it sucks royally that no one likes to level there due to the difficulty in breaking in/getting out.