Quote:
Originally Posted by Xulia
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
This seems to encourage being able to 1 group the captain - I'm guessing this includes the kiter - so 5 man him? Seems like that would be a tall order unless you already had ToV gear.
|
If P99 had official raid forces I'd suggest rules based around those, but since it doesn't I suggested using groups. The idea is not that you should have to do Scout with one group, it's that you should have
at least a group of people there indicating they are willing to help you, for you to have a shot. Some random person alone without a force shouldn't.
In other words, it's not "let's only let groups do it", it's "let's prioritize the people that bring raid forces, and since we can't measure those we'll measure the next closest thing (groups)."
Quote:
Originally Posted by Xulia
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
This would make the Scout Roll highly exploitable if you had a guild of people that could do that on their own...
|
That's the idea!
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Scout was never meant to be a lottery ticket to awesome loot. Instead, it was was very much designed to be like the other epic Velious quests: Shawl, Dain Ring, Garzicor, etc. all assume/require you to have friends willing to help.
Saying it's an exploit to make you have to have a guild to do Scout is like saying it's an exploit that you need a full group to do Sebilis King. Because of implementation details it used to be possible for people to duo/trio King, but when the staff fixed it so you needed a group again that wasn't "introducing an exploit", it was "making the server classic again".
Making scout require a raid force would be the same thing. Clickfests were classic in that way, but terrible in every other way. Rolls are better than clickfests in every way ... except that they require everyone to help. Generation 3.0 ("automated GMing") could give everyone a fair chance (no clickfest) without giving everyone free loot.