A proposed PvP Teams ruleset: Modified SZ (long)

[Dullah]

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

Neither Blue nor Red has a serverwide global shout announcing the spawn of each raid mob one hour in advance. That is the crucial point, not the small variance window. The small variance window is in place to prevent mobs being locked down exclusively off-peak, which is exactly what guilds would try to do in response to the serverwide advance shout if the variance were not in place. The intention of both of these changes together is to make it as difficult as possible for any single guild or team to get raid mobs without having to PvP for them.

An announcement of when mobs are spawning wont change anything. Its easy to find out when raids are taking place if you're paying attention. If you don't know when dragons are spawning, chances are you're not going to be able to kill them anyway.

[Vexenu]

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

An announcement of when mobs are spawning wont change anything. Its easy to find out when raids are taking place if you're paying attention. If you don't know when dragons are spawning, chances are you're not going to be able to kill them anyway.

It's a teams server, not a guild vs. guild server, which is basically what Red (FFA) and Blue both are in practice.

Under existing rulesets, there is no reason for guilds that can't kill/mobilize for certain raid mobs to even bother keeping track of the spawn timer. With teams, however, even smaller/less powerful guilds can contribute to the kill by helping their team out in the PvP battles before the raid kill.

A one-hour advance shout would be sufficient to generate spontaneous PvP competition for the majority of raid spawns. It wouldn't require poopsocking or any advance knowledge of the spawn timer whatsoever. It would be everyone on the server getting one hour notice that Trak or CT or whatever is about to spawn, and then mobilizing and preparing to battle the other teams to get the kill.

[jcmtg]

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

An announcement of when mobs are spawning wont change anything. Its easy to find out when raids are taking place if you're paying attention. If you don't know when dragons are spawning, chances are you're not going to be able to kill them anyway.

So what? With a server wide announcement i'll know where PvP will be.