Variance Changes

[Supreme]

Variance was to counter the poop socking.

Red has no poop socking and thus no variance.

No competition either but whatever.

[Kagatob]

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

FTE in any form is still the root cause of all of this bullshit.

Stop strying to treat the symptoms, heal the actual ailment.

[Jenni D]

sounds like trak died on red

[Clark]

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

the idea (and i could be wrong, Rogean please correct me if i am) is that if the variance is shortened it will increase the # of players poopsocking.

whereas, with the variance having a chance to reset, players are less likely to poopsock knowing it could be 6 hrs up to 30hrs until pop.

ultimately it's up to the players to decide how they wish to spend their time, you will always have guilds using trackers, but i expect to see a lot less of 100 people on VS or on trak or on any other raid mob spawn spot, because it adds a higher sense of randomness to when the pop will happen

<3

+1

[Clark]

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

I don't have it backwards, let me make a chart for you:

Don't want to Raid------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to Raid
Trade Federation -- Knights of Ni -- Flawless Victory -- Divinity -- Taken -- Bregan D`Aerth - Forceful Entry/The Mystical Order
.................................................. .....|----------------------------------------- Population of "want to raid" --------------------------------|
.................................................. .....|------ Population of "will not poopsock" -------|

* The guilds listed are meant to be representative and not exact. I apologize for offending any guild.
There's plenty that would like to raid, have raided even, but refuse to participate in the 'sock.

Deejay! This makes no sense to me [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kagatob]

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

Deejay! This makes no sense to me [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Raise your screen's resolution above 640x480.

[Autotune]

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

Raise your screen's resolution above 640x480.

my laptop doesn't go any higher than 1366x768 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It made no sense to me either

[Kagatob]

Made perfect sense to me.

1920x1200 FTW

[pharmakos]

one of the tactics smaller guilds with less resources were using to compete was to head to a spawn point when a mob is close to the end of its window

this hurts that tactic

[Frieza_Prexus]

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

All these people agree with me:

When these, literally some of the greatest scholars of Classic EverQuest that the world has ever known, yet all interpersonally cantankerous to some degree or another, all agree on what should probably be done with Variance and the raid scene, and have been in accord for approximately an entire year, the developers should probably at least PRETEND to BEGIN pay attention.

Interestingly enough, not a single sock has occurred since these changes went live. Correlation? Mere happenstance? I don't know. Merely interesting. (Though perhaps I'm overly invested in the idea, but if it really is working I'll try not to have any "I told you so's" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.])