Some variance ideas

[quido]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Look Jeremy. You and Sirken can wave the whiner flag all you want. The fact of the matter is that this server is supposed to be a recreation of classic. Currently it is not. Who benefits from reverting it to classic is not really the point.

A proper recreation of classic would include other classic servers for people to choose from, so as to prevent hundreds of people from sitting on a spawn every time it's about to show up.

[Rhambuk]

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

A proper recreation of classic would include other classic servers for people to choose from, so as to prevent hundreds of people from sitting on a spawn every time it's about to show up.

Very true, the server has too many players for 1 server but not enough for multiple. its a difficult situation no doubt, but does the variance really help other than limiting the amount of players/guilds...Willing, to commit to sort of dedication required here on p99.

[Splorf22]

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

A proper recreation of classic would include other classic servers for people to choose from, so as to prevent hundreds of people from sitting on a spawn every time it's about to show up.

You aren't wrong. I think without variance the raid scene will suck as you say. However, the raid scene sucks NOW. 80% of high level players don't even want to show up. And if i have to choose between two bad choices I'm going to pick the one that's classic and fair over the one thats not classic and unfair.

Ultimately though I think we need some tokens just because we have 4x the high-level population any classic server would have seen.

[contemptor]

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

A proper recreation of classic would include other classic servers for people to choose from, so as to prevent hundreds of people from sitting on a spawn every time it's about to show up.

This is of course the only logical reasoning to the P99 socking/classic argument.

[Sarius]

TMO has a method that works for them, which is awesome, good for our guys. I just find it sad that Naggy and Vox aren't even on the table for other guilds save repop days.

[Rhuma7]

Any high end guild worth their salt would <3 repop days. On live my guild was pushing over 100 members mid PoP and when server crash/patch/maintenance we would split our guild up into 1/4's and hit different mobs all at the same time.

If I was TMO and they did intended repops id just create even more alts and park them at even more spawns.

We could have everything dead in less than 45 minutes save cazic thule and innoruuk.

[quido]

I don't think a single person in this discussion would be against a greater frequency of full repops.

[Sarius]

The repops have worked great so far. TMO gets 90% of mobs and BDA and FE each get 5%

[quido]

Sarius you should be saying "the repops aren't classic enough."

If you were smart you'd say "we deserve 1-2 hours warning via server broadcast or something so that everyone can at least put forth their best preparation." This would at least somewhat emulate the actual downtime people experienced on live.

At the same time, though, it's hard to emulate an hour or two of server down without actually having an hour or two of server down.

[Sarius]

Yeah the only way that the would work is with sufficient warning, or else TMO would just steamroll the competition. I am not a classic Nazi, but would love to see something change in the current raid scene, anything.