Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

Sylas

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guys guys stop it with the logical, inevitable conclusions to poor design decisions. Now is the time to just hit the I believe button
 
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Arden

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What will happen is guilds will have a team of alts that are essentially level locked for the encounter if the loot is good enough. It happens on P99 with Vox/Naggy.

Quarm emu server has some pretty innovative ideas for how to deal with poop socking and item camping- including items that can only be looted once per 30 days per account not per character. Other stuff too.

I was pretty skeptical of some of the Quarm features before I played because I've always been very anti-instancing (and related concepts). But once I actually played I discovered that the ideas had been implemented very effectively.

All this just to say I think there are a few elegant/non-intrusive ways to solve some of these problems with creative programming these days. Not sure the devs will be interested in trying the ideas- just saying they exist and work pretty well.
 
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Kithani

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So the loot sellers invite them into the group to get kill credit. Need to be on the hate list while over the level cap? Then run in, get death touched with a 96% rez as part of the sale. Sweatlords will find a way to sell it if it's popular enough.
Cool.

So ban them, from Orbit (to be sure).

But the real answer is just don’t make the loot OP. In Shards of Dalaya (with a few outlier exceptions) it was mostly loot that was good for the level but you’d just replace it later if you kept on leveling.
 
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Hatorade

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Shards of Dalaya had level locked content and it worked ok as optional content to change things up while leveling. They should really make all the drops No Drop if they haven’t already to avoid poopsock losers monopolizing it
It worked when the population was there, trying to do adepts now is aids.
 
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on Shards of Dalaya (the almost abandoned old one), people made alt clusters for each of the level locked bosses, then /locked the account (where you couldn't trade their items or accept new items or whatever else). and parked them at each of the level locked names (adepts).

They then twinked them with literally the best t wink gear they could possibly make. for the early, like sub 40ish i think.....ONE of these alts could solo the thing. so because it's a box server. you could play one of those alts, and your character. do that with the alt every X hours (respawn time) till you get youre item then move to the next.

The new Dalaya, i'm not sure about, but they did remove the irreplaceable items from the adepts. so it's just a choice to do it or not. i basically never did it because it was real obnoxious waiting on the respawn, then trying to get in when some guy could just log the nuclear alts in and just kill it immediately.

i think literally the exact same thing will happen on the box servers. people will make turbo twinks and leave them there. i doubt they'll share the account info for them tho because it's an actual sub and not a free infinite account emulator.