New ToV rules

[booter]

Very very healthy change for the server in my opinion. Glad to see it finally.

[Molitoth]

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

Guids rotating raid zones, thats defiently one way to solve a problem. But, why not just make the rule, no pulling trash and raid bosses to zone ent? This would solve the problem of people accidently pulling raid encounters ontop of unexpecting other guilds who might just be trying to do their own thing, while upholding the intergerity of the games most basic values of competition, organization, mobilization and skill. Just trying to help think outside the box here on how this community might be able to come up with a solution that keeps in tact the intregerity of the game while upholding long standing traditions of the server.

I would think they could easily implement rooted ToV dragons or "teathering" which was SOE fix to things.

[Dreenk317]

Ya, braknar did not think this one out at all! So let's say one of these smaller, casual guilds, that's just so excited to finally see ToV gets there slot, they are all set up and ready, kill there first ToV dragon, and........ Earthquake, AM/BG/AG/Core show up and proceed to kill all the rest of the dragons and said casual guild has to wait another 4 months for a shot at ToV......

[YendorLootmonkey]

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

I would think they could easily implement rooted ToV dragons or "teathering" which was SOE fix to things.

Well, to be fair, their fix for things was also to release new expansions so top guilds moved on to new and better loot.

[aaezil]

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

And the sad state of this server is that there exists a group of sociopaths that vehemently believe that your level of time commitment precludes you from deserving raid loot, and will go to great lengths (poopsocking, 2am batphones, petitionquest, etc.) to enforce that to the best of their ability.

[fan D]

There is nothing fun about 16 hour variance windows and staring at the wall the whole time. When the dragon spawns and that 20second race begins, i -SUPPOSE- that part is fun

but to stare at a wall for 16 hours for a chance at loot that does not matter is sad. you don't need the items, there is nothing to do with your raid loot on p99 blue. All of the content was cleared on day 1 of release

god bless the rotation, best thing the staff has done

[Prostatus]

Repop days are going to fun. The whole reason for this was too many people in ToV and now on repop days when ToV is FFA.... well shit you just shot 0-3 big holes in your system a month.

[loramin]

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

Repop days are going to fun. The whole reason for this was too many people in ToV and now on repop days when ToV is FFA.... well shit you just shot 0-3 big holes in your system a month.

Originally Posted by Dreenk317 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ya, braknar did not think this one out at all! So let's say one of these smaller, casual guilds, that's just so excited to finally see ToV gets there slot, they are all set up and ready, kill there first ToV dragon, and........ Earthquake, AM/BG/AG/Core show up and proceed to kill all the rest of the dragons and said casual guild has to wait another 4 months for a shot at ToV......

Ok, first off, do you really think Braknar just whipped this up on his own? The staff does not make major changes to the raid scene because one GM decides to; I guarantee Rogean was involved, and very likely all the other GMs and possibly Nilbog and some devs too (I'm unclear exactly how much the devs weigh in on server operation stuff, but they must at least a little because they've posted comments about it in the past).

Second, do you really think the staff would make such a major change without even thinking of the last major change they made to the raid system (ie. earthquakes)? Like, their whole goal is to manage the raid scene, but in a few short months they completely forgot their last raid scene fix and just decided to implement a completely new and incompatible one?

I mean, I guess all that's possible, but it seems a lot more likely that Rogean et all are a lot more competent than you guys are giving them credit for. And 10+ successful years of running the most popular emulated EQ server on the planet sort of supports my take.

[aaezil]

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

Ok, first off, do you really think Braknar just whipped this up on his own? The staff does not make major changes to the raid scene because one GM decides to; I guarantee Rogean was involved, and very likely all the other GMs and possibly Nilbog and some devs too (I'm unclear exactly how much the devs weigh in on server operation stuff, but they must at least a little because they've posted comments about it in the past).

Second, do you really think the staff would make such a major change without even thinking of the last major change they made to the raid system (ie. earthquakes)? Like, their whole goal is to manage the raid scene, but in a few short months they completely forgot their last raid scene fix and just decided to implement a completely new and incompatible one?

I mean, I guess all that's possible, but it seems a lot more likely that Rogean et all are a lot more competent than you guys are giving them credit for. And 10+ successful years of running the most popular emulated EQ server on the planet sort of supports my take.

You are taking them way too seriously man, they are just upset that their 7 day free loot pinata is grinding to a slower pace

[Cen]

In classic, such a large number of high levels weren't present. These zones would wait patiently for some guild to dare attack them, and then the guilds would frequently fail.

Now, everyone even casual is armed with nuclear gear, and obliterating all content without a flinch. You have to do something.