Spawning Velious+ style raid mobs for giggles

[Ektar]

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

There could be a trigger NPC in The Arena that would spawn Tormax, Yelinak, Tunare, etc on demand so that there's no socking or competition for the spawns.

This is instancing :P

No exp or loot makes it worse because it's implementing a little arcade game within our world of Norrath. EQ is different from wow because warcraft is a game, and EQ is a world.


There are no little jokes referencing the outside world (except for little things like qeynos, tunare, or felwithe, which no one would really ever realize are anagrams until someone points it out).

There are real consequences for taking risks. If you want to travel from odus to faydwer as a level 1 erudite, dayum you're in for a ROUGH TIME. I remember being a little shit and traveling, for the first time, beyond the safety of EC. Some bitch took me to misty thicket. I was TERRIFIED running through WC; giant bears that conned red all over omg. Step too close and I was done for. Kithicor? I don't even remember because I buried the needle of the shit-my-pants gauge.

And most importantly,
There is no instancing. Norrath is a world. Yeah ok nagafen has lived and died a lot. But there is only ONE Lord Nagafen. You don't roll up to the fg prep area and hail some dude that says "ok hand me a copper piece and you'll enter a parallel dimension in which nagafen exists."


But it's a game and we want to have fun! right?
Yeah but go play wow.

[Frieza_Prexus]

There are no little jokes referencing the outside world

Ah, I think understand now. It's a good thing we've never had an event with something crazy like Brosama bin Floggin as an NPC.

Oh wait, we have.

Again, I fail to see why a temporary event like this would harm the server. Judging by your arguments, I assume you protested just as vociferously against previous events, including the one you recently participated in?

-Xasten

[guineapig]

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

warcraft is a game, and EQ is a world.

Pretty sure Everquest is a game... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]


Anywho, people who want to test their might on Velious boses will be more than welcome to test to their hearts content once Everything in Kunark is finished and the developers start working on Velious.
One of the major delays with Kunark was the fact that not enough people frequented the test serverto submit bug reports, etc.

[Dr4z3r]

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

This is instancing :P

Nothing he described is any more similar to instancing than the Bard Epic's triggered Trak spawn. Is your reading comprehension suffering from too much time on the internet, or do you just not know what instancing is?

I'm not saying I'm for or against the idea, but if all it is is spawning boss mobs (Mayong Mistmoore, anyone?) with no loot, then I fail to see how it would impact the server at all