Pandemic screwed essential workers trying to /list

[bubur]

You could just as easily say the pandemic screwed you out of the guise, or your boss, or the govt, or maybe it's the devs, or was it brad, or god?

Definitely not you though

[solleks]

it was brad imo

[Jimjam]

If everyone had the decency to poop in a sock, drink mountain dew and not wash then water utility wouldn't even be an essential employment.

Big sip for OP.

[Gatorsmash]

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

I work for American Water (water utility) in Pennsylvania.

The Pandemic gave so many players unlimited time to /list for a legacy item.

a little rough math:

10 players on the list when I show up as #11

2 PH spawns per hour

*maybe* a 20% chance for assassin to spawn

*Maybe* a 20% chance for the guise to drop

So if a guise drops say, every other assassin spawn (being generous on drop rate)

That is a minimum of 30 hours straight in 1 sitting for spot #11 to get a mask

(I know that others have been lucky, or not lucky and camped 60 hours)

I have a job considered essential critical and I do not work from home. There is no chance in hell that I will even have an opportunity to /list for this item. I will not ever have 30+ hours to sit in front of my computer.

The Pandemic made all these lists go deep in player count, before the pandemic, players would log off because they had to go do grown up stuff, like work their job.

The Devs made the /list system to make the legacy loot distribution a little more fair.

The Pandemic has turned that fair system AGAINST players who cannot poopsock 30-60 hours.

The /list system has worked well. However something should be done to counter the Pandemic stay at home orders. (i don't have any good ideas aside from increasing spawn and drop rate)

The Pandemic made all these lists go deep in player count, before the pandemic, players would log off because they had to go do grown up stuff, like work their job.


Before the Pandemic, I would have had at least a CHANCE to camp a guise or manastone, but now, because I still have to work, and the rest of you do not, I'm shafted out of the item.

I don't want handouts, I don't even want things changed really, but it needs to be recognized that the Pandemic has caused every list to be 10+ players 24/7 with wait times ranging at a 24 hour minimum to upwards of 60-70 hours.

So maybe someone could come up with a solution, not a handout, a solution to address that players who can work from home, under the stay-at-home order have a MASSIVE advantage over people like me, who work a job considered Essential Critical, to even have half a chance in hell at obtaining a legacy item.

Due to the Pandemic, I have no chance at obtaining legacy items before they are removed.

Enjoy your lives at home if you can, just remember people like me make that life possible. People like me are the reason your electricity and water are still flowing during this public shutdown.

But you, you can have your guise and 8 manastones, sure.

NO1CURR. This server is for the 1%.

Anybody with an atom of awareness rolling around in their head can see the current crushing population has been detrimental for game play enjoyment and Teal should be reopened. I guess we want to join the likes of the UFC, Holly lobby and other tone deft to a global pandemic going on.

[Mblake81]

There are too many people in my massively multiplayer online game, Skyrim never treated me like this

Thats it!.. screw you guys im going to play Fallout76

[Mblake81]

yeah, i forgot its all my fault.

Carry on with your FQ

[loramin]

Yeah, when a bunch of people are talking about changing a system to make it better for all players on a server, it's totally normal to attack one of them personally, or to attack "straw men" instead of their actual points (eg. you're the only person talking about instances in this whole thread).

Another solid contribution Blake.

[Cen]

My perfect MMO is a sci fi MMO like AO, but it has like a lot of instanced content with cool gear and stuff, but also has open world non instanced dungeons and raid content with superbosses that are going to rarely be killed by players. I kind of like both of those things together.

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I want an AO sequel more than an EQ sequel tbh ;D It was sort of the inbetween world of theme park and sandbox, and quests were still item based like EQ and not the weird question mark crap I hate

[ldgo86]

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

My perfect MMO is a sci fi MMO like AO, but it has like a lot of instanced content with cool gear and stuff, but also has open world non instanced dungeons and raid content with superbosses that are going to rarely be killed by players. I kind of like both of those things together.

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I want an AO sequel more than an EQ sequel tbh ;D It was sort of the inbetween world of theme park and sandbox, and quests were still item based like EQ and not the weird question mark crap I hate

I want to completely reskin all of EQ classic into a Sci Fi theme. Like a combination of EQ and SWG. That is my perfect game. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[loramin]

Originally Posted by ldgo86 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I want to completely reskin all of EQ classic into a Sci Fi theme. Like a combination of EQ and SWG. That is my perfect game. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

SWG pre-overhaul was actually a pretty great game ... once they finished it. It was just too bad that it got released so incomplete, and wasn't finished fast enough, so most people left it early.