Earthquakes - Page 3

Fammaden · #1 07-14-2020, 11:49 AM

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2: Quakes are healthy for the server, because they provide a means for guilds that aren't riot to take a stab at targets that are otherwise engaged within seconds-to-minutes on natural respawn. For the folks who tout competition as the be-all end-all of everquest, shouldn't you be in favor of having an environment where people actually feel like competition is possible.

Small point of contention here, I feel like its the old AM crew that always spouted the "competition" line and just used it for whatever suits their purpose half the time. Riot seems to simply just go after whatever benefits them the most rather than claiming "competition" as some meaningful goal in and of itself. Which I'll give credit for the honest approach but it still is the same end result. Not sure Riot really cares about the competitive atmosphere and would probably be quite happy if windows had a seven day spread all the time.

But good points, you pretty much summed up every reason why quakes are good and are maybe the simplest and best approach to the P99 raid meta.

xdrcfrx · #2 07-14-2020, 12:10 PM

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

Small point of contention here, I feel like its the old AM crew that always spouted the "competition" line and just used it for whatever suits their purpose half the time. Riot seems to simply just go after whatever benefits them the most rather than claiming "competition" as some meaningful goal in and of itself. Which I'll give credit for the honest approach but it still is the same end result. Not sure Riot really cares about the competitive atmosphere and would probably be quite happy if windows had a seven day spread all the time.

But good points, you pretty much summed up every reason why quakes are good and are maybe the simplest and best approach to the P99 raid meta.

That's fair - although (not to get too into the weeds) I feel like the AM's that touted competition were only in favor of it insofar as the competitive meta benefited them. Like other competitive, zero-sum, environments the incentive for any discrete actor is to eliminate rivals and monopolize opportunity. In the real world, we deal with this (in the context of say, commercial activity) with anti-trust laws that prevent one entity from crowding out others and stifling competition. Not really a great way to translate that to non-instanced MMO raiding, I don't think. But, of course riot would be happy with spawns spread out over the entire week. If they don't have to stop and think twice about clearing in towards Dagarn or Feshlak, for example, because maybe something else will pop that they want more, or that will otherwise impede them, then they'll go for (and win most of) everything. I suspect that they loved the month+ of spawns on all 7 days of the week.

Anyways, those are just my thoughts on why more quakes would be good. Don't need to be weekly or anything like that. 1-2 a month seemed like a good number. Maybe we're all just falling prey to the gambler's fallacy, and it's truly just the rng has decided a couple months in a row on few/no quakes. Could be that we'll have 2-3 a month for the next few months, and we'll all forget about the Great Drought of 2020. Who knows?