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Originally Posted by Rogean
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Then it's not a simulated patch day... It would become a ... well not even simulated.. it would basically be every mob in the game randomly respawning at the exact same time. In order to simulate it like a patch day, it would have to be announced ahead of time. Typically it was estimated when the servers would come up from a patch in classic (usually after a 6 to 8 hour downtime), so it would be sometime in the afternoon... We would have to set a window and let everyone know what it is.
"All mobs will be respawning between 2 and 5 PM EST"...
Seems like kind of a cheat.
Then you don't actually have the downtime.. so people are on the server already, have been killing mobs.. waiting for the random respawn.. hell I bet you raiding guilds would already select out the first target they want and be poopsocking the hell out of it. And in the case of Dark Ascension with their bajillion strong raid force, they would most likely have split their raid force and be poop socking multiple raid mobs.
It wouldn't work out as well as you guys think it would.
Oh and don't even recomend taking the server down to accomplish this.. Raiding guilds are still the minority compared to the rest of the server and we aren't going to inconvenience the masses to appease you.
And I'd also like to mention, when the server is patched.. it happens typically overnight, and is down for 10-30 minutes, and is always unannounced ahead of time.
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Patches are equally as unpredictable here as on Live. As someone said before, even if they gave you an estimate that the server was going to be down for eight hours, it was rarely a reliable one. Sure, they told you longer in advance, but that doesn't change whether you have a real life commitment in the next eight hour window or not. I also don't think that patches being less predictable is that much of a bad thing.
I see the problem with simulating it while people are still able to access the server. That's fair. But if you do what I suggested (just respawning raid mobs every X number of patch days, where X is how many times more patch days we have compared to Live during the classic time period), then you don't have that problem. It wouldn't take long for someone to research what "X" is. Hell, I'll even do it if you want, it surely wouldn't take that much work.
Also, the fact that *most* patches happen at night, seems like an easy problem to solve, since that's largely a choice on your part (except in the case of emergency patches, which probably shouldn't count towards "X" mentioned earlier), and I'm pretty sure some arrangement could be made where you guys mix it up a little. Granted, it would make you the target of even more silly conspiracy theories as people try and allege that you're purposely restarting the server while some guilds have the least members on, so I can see why that wouldn't be fun. I still think we don't necessarily have to always patch during the time where the least players are on, and I don't think this is such a ludicrous idea that it shouldn't be considered further.