Increased Spawn Rates At Launch Means Exploitable Quests

[aaezil]

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

This entire thread is such a stupid whine. Respawn rate of newbie zones could possibly lead to someone farming 100pp in a few hours, if they farm 1 mob, and nobody else planned on it. (I farmed rabid wolf on Green Beta and there is either a place holder or respawn in 6+ minutes).

Or, normal spawn rate and we all quit playing for a few days because 100 people are fighting over 2 fire beetles.

You sound pretty whiney yourself.

Did everyone quit after a few days when eq originally launched with 400 sec noob yards?

[FishBait01]

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

This entire thread is such a stupid whine. Respawn rate of newbie zones could possibly lead to someone farming 100pp in a few hours, if they farm 1 mob, and nobody else planned on it. (I farmed rabid wolf on Green Beta and there is either a place holder or respawn in 6+ minutes).

Or, normal spawn rate and we all quit playing for a few days because 100 people are fighting over 2 fire beetles.

100pp in a few hrs getting 1gold every 5 mobs?

yikesin at you

[Rooj]

A guy camping the wolf/grizzly said he made 100p in an hour. Someone else said that they were spawning WAY faster than 6.5 minutes, but I can't confirm either statement.

I sorta want to see no change to any spawn rate... It will force people to go to places they probably haven't been since actual Classic. Imagine people leveling in Qeynos sewers! XD

[Evia]

I think the increased spawn rate is kinda smart. At least for the newbie zones.

[Fammaden]

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

I think the increased spawn rate is kinda smart. At least for the newbie zones.

We're talking about Qhills though, but I guess that's kinda the newbie yard for SFG? For the newbie yards I agree, bump up the spawn rate temporarily to help handle all the low levels. For any other zone I say leave it the same and let people figure it out.

[DMN]

I'm not sure increasing spawns in 'newbie' area does much. it simply kicks the bottleneck down the road a zone or two, where it has been removed. Players will still stay mostly constrained to nearby geography/zones as you almost always have to cross many many zones. many of which quite dangerous for your level, and sometimes boats too to get some 'new area'.

[Tenlaar]

I'm curious what the distinction of "newbie area" is going to be as well, and how that's going to affect leveling ranges for different areas. Steamfont or Butcherblock can pretty easily take somebody to around level 15 compared to Freeport newbie yards taking somebody to level 4, for example. So is that expanded to cover the Commons too? Ro?

I mean, if we say "newbie area" is anywhere that people go to xp to before level 20 and then we think about just on Antonica...East and West Commons, Befallen, both Ro's, Oasis, Erud's Crossing, all of the Karanas, Innothule, Feerrott, Kithicor, Everfrost, Lavastorm, Misty, Nektulos, Najena, Runnyeye, Upper Guk, Permafrost, Blackburrow...how many zones AREN'T going to have this boost going?

Hell even Rathe Mountains has plenty of stuff to kill in the low teens. Is the first power leveling neckbearding no lifer group going to hit the 30's and have 80% reduced spawn time on Hill Giants?

[zaneosak]

I believe Rogean has addressed this problem multiple times now. West Karana confirmed not changed -- you can test Lesser Faydark and Rathe Mountains if you wish. I think Qeynos Hills is Surefall's newbie area so it counts. Rogean said there will be conditions to address abusable quests like rabid wolf pelts. Not sure what those are exactly as of yet. But it would be good to test other zones just 1 away from newbie areas to see. Lesser Faydark has a 6:40 spawn time, if you're in your early teens you should be able to test a bandit there.

[zodias]

So if qhills is going to have increased spawn rate does that mean increased pyzjin and haddens? I agree newbie yards should be increased but maybe qhills doesn't need it.

[Videri]

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

So if qhills is going to have increased spawn rate does that mean increased pyzjin and haddens? I agree newbie yards should be increased but maybe qhills doesn't need it.

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

There are conditions attached to the spawn reduction system