Stop the Socking

[Daldaen]

As for your other point, that goes against the removal of socking to an extent. And comes down to a Solid State Harddrive race on who can log in their camped FTEer fastest.

The footrace suggestion removes that and it becomes a test of whose tracker is most attentive and whose footracer takes the best path / coordinates with the tracker on pathing movements of an outdoor dragon.

[Ella`Ella]

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

As for your other point, that goes against the removal of socking to an extent. And comes down to a Solid State Harddrive race on who can log in their camped FTEer fastest.

Don't you think it's more important to worry about fixing some underlying 'problem' that is causing socking rather than worrying about whether or not people are playing Everquest on a calculator or Falcon-nw.com.

I'd rather someone having a SSD or being Rogean's roommate as the 'X' factor in raiding that auto-fire/poopsocking/1000 alts, etc...

[khanable]

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

Don't you think it's more important to worry about fixing some underlying 'problem' that is causing socking rather than worrying about whether or not people are playing Everquest on a calculator or Falcon-nw.com.

I'd rather someone having a SSD or being Rogean's roommate as the 'X' factor in raiding that auto-fire/poopsocking/1000 alts, etc...

Agree

and everyone is able to use ramdisk if it really means that much to you

Anywho - I still don't get what you mean by lower variance and increased windows, can you explain this to me like I'm an ogre?

[Ella`Ella]

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

Anywho - I still don't get what you mean by lower variance and increased windows, can you explain this to me like I'm an ogre?

Sorry about that. I typed it in a rush on my way to a meeting. I meant them pretty interchangeably. It would read better as "Shorter windows or Longer Windows" either/or really.

Longer windows is the least favorable because of socking, but it does space mobs much more quickly than shorter windows. This way they aren't always clustered together and always spawning Fri-Sun (currently).

The cons of that is it burns out trackers/socking.

Shorter windows would likely keep mobs spawning together for longer, but reduces the amount of time people would spend socking (if any time was spent socking). This would be coupled with something like doing the ole fashioned foot race or some shit. Let's get realistic here, nothing in EQ is 100% skill, there is a lot of luck involved on all sides, so it's never going to be a perfect science.

[Daldaen]

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

Don't you think it's more important to worry about fixing some underlying 'problem' that is causing socking rather than worrying about whether or not people are playing Everquest on a calculator or Falcon-nw.com.

I'd rather someone having a SSD or being Rogean's roommate as the 'X' factor in raiding that auto-fire/poopsocking/1000 alts, etc...

Underlying problem is lack of content, and I'm not sure how much more betaing will help fix that.

Other problem is people not wanting to do a complete share (rotation), so we have competition which is what we are trying to compromise on.

If we get variance reduces greatly, people will only have to track for a 30-60 min window. To combat socking you implement a set of rules that say you can only have X in zone and only these 2 May go for FTE.

What you're suggesting just means 1 person is forced to sit at character select screen and way for a batphone. Or far more likely, play, then /quit and swap to their char select screen of an IP exempt account. Just another flavor of tracking. It just favors those who want to sit at char select or those with an Ip exempt and those with the fastest SSD.

Orrrr put everyone on the same footing, foot race from a given start point. Remove all the inconsistencies listed above.

Again, cucumber and I are confused. Elaborate on what you mean about short variance and long windows. Cause if you're against reducing variance the whole thing is moot and we are no better off than we would be staying with CotH ducking. Which I pray isn't the case. I can't fathom anyone prefers 16 hour variance to 1 hour variance.