Spawn Rate Appears to be Back to Normal

[strawman]

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

The spawn time reduction was not removed. It was 80% at launch, and it was lowered to 40% this morning, which is still a significant reduction.

I'll move it up to 60% for now.

Nice, good decision.

This explains why the change felt so bad. Things that had been spawning every 2 minutes were spawning every 6 minutes. The spawn times tripled.

[Danger]

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

Nice, good decision.

Things that had been spawning every 2 minutes were spawning every 6 minutes. The spawn times are fixed and classic.

Ftfy

Imho spawns should have been on normal timers since day 1. Let god sort it out.

[strawman]

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

Ftfy

Imho spawns should have been on normal timers since day 1. Let god sort it out.

In the example I used, the classic spawn timer would have been 10 minutes. That would have caused a riot.

I wasn't there when EQ launched so I don't know if these populations are classic. 2500 concurrent players doesn't sound like that many by modern standards, but EQ had many servers. If there were significantly fewer people trying to squeeze through the newbie zones simultaneously on each server, then there's a good argument to be made that classic spawn times aren't actually true to the classic experience.

[Greymantle]

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

In the example I used, the classic spawn timer would have been 10 minutes. That would have caused a riot.

I wasn't there when EQ launched so I don't know if these populations are classic. 2500 concurrent players doesn't sound like that many by modern standards, but EQ had many servers. If there were significantly fewer people trying to squeeze through the newbie zones simultaneously on each server, then there's a good argument to be made that classic spawn times aren't actually true to the classic experience.

EQ launched in 1999 it wasn't even close to this kind of population at launch per server.

[Jimjam]

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

Ftfy

Imho spawns should have been on normal timers since day 1. Let god sort it out.

Thats not how the spawners worked in newbie zones on live though.

[Yorec]

I don't know the proper respawn times but Ice Goblins in Everfrost seemed to respawn fairly quickly. Fast enough that I was splitting a camp with another guy without impacting our personal EXP gains by grouping.

[Danger]

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

The spawn time reduction was not removed. It was 80% at launch, and it was lowered to 40% this morning, which is still a significant reduction.

I'll move it up to 60% for now.

oh man I can't wait for the mad when they're at 0% if people were this mad at 40%

[Thrombosis]

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

The spawn time reduction was not removed. It was 80% at launch, and it was lowered to 40% this morning, which is still a significant reduction.

I'll move it up to 60% for now.

Thank you. There were still over 80 players in Nek Forest yesterday evening (UK time), hopefully players will start to spread out soon.

[Pilgrimzero]

Logged in this morning for 20 minutes. 36 people in Butcherblock. I killed more mobs in 20 minutes than I did yesterday in 2 hours. It was glorious.

[magusfire24]

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

Logged in this morning for 20 minutes. 36 people in Butcherblock. I killed more mobs in 20 minutes than I did yesterday in 2 hours. It was glorious.

I was on this morning at 5 am before work. 13 in freeport LOL