Simulated Repop and Moving all characters to West Commons

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

I mentioned that during a conversation involving various nonclassic ways to fix camping out, and/or poopsocking raid targets. It was just a random idea.

I was actually going to type more on it, then I got called away, and left everyone hanging with a random idea lol. Sorry about that.

I had said when a raid npc pops, move characters of all raid guilds (online and offline) to west commons. My original thought was kerra ridge, but that benefits hat ports.

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to fix camping out of which I'm aware. Always willing to listen to suggestions, but this is one of the reasons future mmos made instances.

I think limiting it to level 46 or 50+ characters would be cool. There are Alts and such in guilds that are EXPing in Unrest or City of Mist that wouldn't really want to be moved. Nor would they factor into any sort of raid situation other than maybe some low level clerics on Naggy/Vox. Even then those clerics will be bound at Naggy/Vox anyways so moving them is moot.

West Commons is nice as mentioned before due to proximity of two portals and WC caps. However there would need to be a little randomizing of spawn points. Having everyone on the same point would lead to issues with people getting stuck or dying from fall damage while they fall on top of the other 100 people logging in. Could you randomly get dropped somewhere between the wizard spire and the druid ring or something?

Also it's worth wondering how many people would be logging into WC and whether the zone could handle that stress? I think your stress tests have gotten up to mid 200s in EC before? I doubt WC would reach that, people would be forming groups ASAP and porting away. I expect due to rapid departure the zones traffic would clear out quickly.

People mention binding/gate potions being an advantage. I'd say they already are on Sim repops, so meh. Plus it's limited to very few mobs like Vox, Trak and VS. Everything else is close enough to a portal to not matter IMO

As Joyelle mentioned as well - Trakanon CotH bots would get punted to WC. I'm personally fine with this, it would make Trakanon a bit more classic with guilds clearing down to him. There probably would be some mushroom and jugg trains but that's just going to affect raiders so I don't think its a big deal.

I really hope this does happen. Would provide a more classic experience than 16-hour staring at wall variance windows. People rushing to mobilize to random targets when the server resets instead of logging in Alt 1 camped at mob X and Alt 2 camped at mob Y.