Best Earthquakes

[turbosilk]

Please ensure all future earthquakes occur midday on a Friday and during the 7 day windows so that there is no classic increase in bosses that week.

Best to keep lining up EQs in the sweet spots for the folks no jobs. (I guess this is my shit job where I'm in meetings and obviously can't log in on my corporate system).

[kjs86z]

he mad

[turbosilk]

I won't lie. It's frustrating.

[Lune]

Please ensure all future earthquakes occur midday on a Friday and during the 7 day windows so that there is no classic increase in bosses that week.

Best to keep lining up EQs in the sweet spots for the folks no jobs. (I guess this is my shit job where I'm in meetings and obviously can't log in on my corporate system).

https://i.imgur.com/Swfm2QU.jpg

[Snortles Chortles]

thank you for freeing up lguk
i decided to stop working today after the quake
sip

[Erati]

thanks 4 quake

[Keebz]

Definitely would be more ideal to have most of the quakes / 7 day targets during non-working hours. Large swaths of player base (full time 9-5'ers) basically can't participate the way it is now. Given the quakes / 16 hour windows are all made up non-classic p99 stuff, I don't see understand why they cater to the unemployed.

[Danth]

It's non-working hours someplace at any given time of day. Most quakes historically happen during times convenient for North American players. If the quakes ever become automated (as was once the goal) I should expect to see them occur at random hours more often.

Danth

[Bigsham]

Try aradune, your guild can pre schedule events and open an instance when you are ready, you and your friends will enjoy cazic, inny, sky clear, vox / nagafen once per week

[Keebz]

It's non-working hours someplace at any given time of day. Most quakes historically happen during times convenient for North American players. If the quakes ever become automated (as was once the goal) I should expect to see them occur at random hours more often.

Danth

Lately, a lot of stuff has been happening mid work day (NA) Friday and while I don't have the exact numbers, I'd reckon the vast majority of players are NA located, as were the original servers/devs of EQ.


Try aradune, your guild can pre schedule events and open an instance when you are ready, you and your friends will enjoy cazic, inny, sky clear, vox / nagafen once per week


Not classic :/

The whole 16 hour random window and earthquake system is also not classic, though.

The devs can't (or at least haven't) recreated classic exactly as it was wrt raid mob spawns. They should really consider the behavior the non-classic system they created rewards.

[turbosilk]

It's non-working hours someplace at any given time of day. Most quakes historically happen during times convenient for North American players. If the quakes ever become automated (as was once the goal) I should expect to see them occur at random hours more often.

Danth

It's not so much that it occurred in the middle of a NA work day. It's coupled with the last 2 happening during the spawn windows when the mobs were already going to be spawning. Makes little sense to drop an EQ then.

[Fammaden]

The classic I remember was weekday downtime on PST office hours, so like noon to one PM EST on a Tuesday and shit, mad repops!

[Keebz]

There was also a fair amount of downtime in classic. Definitely more than we've seen so far on green.

[Xersius]

The average person is working a 8-5 these days M-F, myself included. Post initial pandemic wave, most folks are returning to their normal grind. Experiencing a quake would be nice... for once. Here's to hoping a quake can at a minimum shift the windows to be on a Saturday or Sunday next time.

Also, on a semi-related rant: socking raid mobs with a 16 hour window is the unhealthiest thing ever for the longevity of this server. I love the race for FTE, love the competitive nature of the mobs, really enjoy the strategies implemented to defeat the gods and dragons, and I love the chaos of managing the adds... but FFS, someone needs to look at the health of the players. It's not healthy to have giant windows on these mobs for the sake of "drift". Shorten the windows for God's sake. Even if the window was +/- 4 hours it would be better... or maybe just make an earthquake BE the pop each week at some random undetermined time. Sitting for 36 hours at your computer at the wee hours of the morning waiting for each window to open is never how this game was intended to be played.

I can't be the only one thinking this. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Love yall

Sarp

[BlackBellamy]

People complaining that a feature meant to be annoying is actually annoying.

[White_knight]

Quake hit @ 3am my time if that helps. So yah it's inconvenient for some folks.

Also Quakes should happen every weekend, lock it in!

[BenDerisgreat]

Quake hit @ 3am my time if that helps. So yah it's inconvenient for some folks.

Also Quakes should happen every weekend, lock it in!

But then everybody would be able to participate and compete. The 1% does not want that.

[Zipity]

Window drift will have mobs spread out for everyone in a week - I think Friday midday or Sunday night is great quake time being fair to everyone, I remember waiting almost a year for a ring 8 roll.

[winter888]

Last Earth Quake is not an earth quake. it's a global server reset.

BUT, there was no any update after it, from server side to client side, people was guessing it's sky plane to be in game. but NO, nothing new after the reset, except all gods' respawn.

And this is the 2nd full respawn of same weekend.

[turbosilk]

Last Earth Quake is not an earth quake. it's a global server reset.

BUT, there was no any update after it, from server side to client side, people was guessing it's sky plane to be in game. but NO, nothing new after the reset, except all gods' respawn.

And this is the 2nd full respawn of same weekend.

Classic