Simulated Patch Day Repop's

[President]

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

still does. EQLive never had regularly scheduled maintainence though.

May not have been every tuesday, but it was close.

[Rasah]

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

Wasn't it World of Warcraft that had the weekly tuesday downtimes?

It may have been, but since I only played WoW casually, it never impacted me.

On live, I had friends that played in the UK, and I would take half day vacations to be able to group with them during their prime hours. I remember always being irritated if I took off a Tuesday and the patch wasn't finished by noon, or whenever they claimed it would and I lost play time.

The patches seemed to be always on a Tuesday, and often, but I don't remember if it was EVERY Tuesday. Certainly seemed like most of them.

[Nealio]

Everquest started the Tuesday downtime holiday. Was there a patch every week, no. Did the servers come down? Yes.

[Chanus]

What about people who AFK for non-camping reasons?

Should they be disconnected as well? How do you differentiate?

[RocketMoose]

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

What about people who AFK for non-camping reasons?

Should they be disconnected as well? How do you differentiate?

Couldn't you put it in zonetags?

However, even with that leaving EC tagged to be allowed to afk in it, 5 mins is ENTIRELY too short. AFK camping is someone who's missing spawns etc, if you're camping say, AC, you are more than welcome to tab out of the game as long as you are back before the next respawn. So I don't like this idea. 30 min timer would be much better, but even at that, it's just so easy to come back every 30 mins since most people who afk camp do it anyway just to make sure their mob didn't spawn.

[RocketMoose]

I just don't get why people don't see that a patch day, or lack of windows would be a bad thing. When the small guilds know that something is going to spawn, they can be there just like the big guilds, right now big guilds have full advantage, because they can have players online 24/7.

How do you think guilds like "Legion" on Veeshan ever became elite? Because they knew when the mobs were going to spawn, and they raced Fires of Heaven, Celestial Tomb, and Cestus Dei. They all had an equal shot, even though they only raided about 18 people they were able to dominate even in Velious because of their high quality players, not because they'd zerg stuff down (CT on Veeshan/DA on here)

I'd much rather see some smaller guilds having a shot at stuff, as it is now, they have little not no chance of getting a boss mob on this server. With the windows removed/simulated patch days. DA could try to split up 3 ways, but then what, do they have enough to just zerg something? No, they don't. So it'd be a fair shot for smaller guilds with quality players in them to get their fair shake at some of these boss mobs too.

Imagine everyone on the server knows all mobs are going to spawn at x time, everyone would be sitting waiting on server up, and in fact the smaller guilds could have a chance to win out via fastest mobilization. So IB / DA may or may not get 2-3 targets, where as right now they pretty much get whatever they want by sheer numbers.

[Nealio]

If you cant stay at your keyboard then you have no business owning a camp. 10 minutes if more than enough time to alt tab to read an article on the web, use the rest room, or whatever. I camped Dylan Starshine the other day for 6 1/2 hours and was never afk for more than 10 minutes.

[Kassel]

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

If you cant stay at your keyboard then you have no business owning a camp. 10 minutes if more than enough time to alt tab to read an article on the web, use the rest room, or whatever. I camped Dylan Starshine the other day for 6 1/2 hours and was never afk for more than 10 minutes.

Cool Story bro.

Thanks for setting playing restrictions for the rest of the server btw.

[Extunarian]

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

If you cant stay at your keyboard then you have no business owning a camp. 10 minutes if more than enough time to alt tab to read an article on the web, use the rest room, or whatever. I camped Dylan Starshine the other day for 6 1/2 hours and was never afk for more than 10 minutes.

I think Nealio might have been looking for the 'questions about camp rules' thread. Not sure how this post relates to the patch day repops.

[Myrkskog]

And Inny drops 2 minutes after he spawns. Grab your socks and onto the next spawn boys!