Alter End-Game Mechanics

[Taryth]

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

People are complaining about not getting mobs, but you really just want them handed to you on a platter. There have been a couple of times in the past month or two where the servers went down and every single raid target respawned. All you guys managed to drop were what, maestro and vox? What makes you think you deserve raid content if that's the best effort you can bring to the table. Enjoy your hate clears and KC xp groups, because that's going to be your EQ experience until you pull your shit together and take what you want. If there are people on the server that want it more than you, then whose fault is that exactly?

I was going to post this in response to another post in this thread, but I decided not to. After reading for a few minutes more, I came to your post. Now it seems appropriate:


I've personally never liked raiding- too much epeen gets whipped out. People get too into it, and begin treating each other like sub-humans. "Lawyering" often crops up at this stage, as common sense and courtesy have long been abandoned.
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Any time someone is backed into a moral corner, and they know they've done/are doing something morally wrong, they will resort to rules and lawyering. Always. So it's pretty funny to see almost every member of TMO that is in this thread quoting rules, fairness, etc . . I seem to recall extremely wealthy people in RL spouting that same thing whilst they sit back and billions suffer for lack of even a little coin. Yeah, it's legal and perfectly "within the rules," but you're still an egregious piece of shit.
People are hilariously predictable. Also, disgusting.

[mwatt]

I'm very pleased that Nilbog is interested in listening to input on this. He certainly doesn't have to, so first of all, thanks to Nilbog.

As to the actual matter of suggestions, only three make sense to me, when one takes into account the preservation of classic play mechanics and conservation of development time.

Winning idea number 1: Increase spawn frequency by a large amount. This is at heart, a supply and demand problem. People will say that TMO will just get more Dragons this way, which is true. But eventually they will be equipped faster and less interested in camping what they don't really need, if targets respawn frequently. When you factor in idea number 2 below (elimination of windows) we may find that other guilds will score more frequently anyway.

Winning idea number 2: Do away with known spawn times plus variance, i.e. get rid of the idea of a "window". Nothing is less fun than sitting in a zone waiting hours for a mob to pop, or alternatively having to constrain play so that your character can be almost instantly to the spawn point. Simply spawn these Dragons at random times, but there should be a minimum respawn time of say an hour and the randomized frequency should be high enough so that the delay is never longer than say, a week or so (but this limit should not be publicly known and perhaps should vary too).

Winning idea number 3: Get Velious out ASAP.

I don't expect that any of these ideas will FIX the problem. They will just lessen it. It might be the best we can do if we want to respect classic mechanics (i.e., not tokens, no instancing, no max dragons killed per guild in one week, etc.) and also not require any significant development effort other than what it takes to get Velious out.