Well I suppose less spawns could possibly do that but when you're a level 50 trying to level on the three blues you don't stand much of a chance if a level 300 mage with MB, a new char to level and a considerable intolerance to 'newbs' feels like muscling in on it.

It is true that it is far harder to level mages than it is warrior's though. That is the best argument for keeping starberry dires, Dire wolves are one of the few higher exp monster's mages can kill fairly easily. If starberry were to be downsized the resistance of tigers/bengal tigers should be lowered so that mages can make use of these spawns as well as warriors. This would make the mage/warrior leveling ability far more equal.

The chat screen is always there for the social aspect. and the party lvling system is too screwed for people to actually hang out together at spawns.

I think getting rid of Blue dragons was a bad idea because it harmed the low levels...I think getting rid of dires would be a bad idea because it harms the mages.

Take a look at beholders den if u want to see a massive warrior spawn.

p.s. on a side note...turns out there was about 50% of the new starberry cave that i had missed and never seen before....and yeah...its massif.... :shock:

I'll think about it while I'm away

You know, I COULD map edit up a new dungeon and prove to you guys exactly the reason for decreasing spawns

Why can't you just tell us?

Because people don't listen.  Here it goes anyway:

People don't seem to understand that if every player had his own personal dires, blues, tigers spawns, and never saw another player, that the game would get boring REAL quick.

While adding larger spawns seems, up front, to be a good idea that makes the playerbase happy, in the long run it ends up causing more people to quit.  The social aspect of Faldon is a much larger portion of the game than any of the mechanics of the game (i.e. religion, spells, skills, etc).  Basically, it's like this:  Once you have everything you want, you have no reason to play anymore.

I mean couldn't deleting them have waited UNTIL your new plan has been implemented.

you have to understand the mindset of your common faldon player. They asked for mage monsters...which where created and placed on the new map...then they where told to TRUST US....and still nothing.

It just seems that the history books prove that what the GM promise isnt always what is followed through with.

So excuse me if we are a bit sceptical until we see some proof.

You know, I COULD map edit up a new dungeon and prove to you guys exactly the reason for decreasing spawns

Why can't you just tell us?

And in any case, like I said, I DIDN"T CHANGE DIRES SPAWN (at least not yet....)

As for the areas that are currently unused (i.e. anthill and sewers), I have some ideas for them that i'll be discussing with Aaron and Crov.  We'll see how things pan out.

All spawns are script controlled and the one in the adventurer cave is set to only spawn during the quest and only once at that.

In fact two spawn in there.

The old one was a right pain in the arse with almost all the dires spawning on the same flat undivided space.

AND the dires that spawned in the tunnel could Zhack up to bite your ass while you fought another dire, not to mention the problems of high leveled players being able to hog practically the entire dire spawn because they could zerk about like a greased cat on a frying pan or clit half the map.

Besides before it was changed the wretched spawns kept breaking, sometimes with as few as 2 spawns working....

The new layout has about 17 dire spawns which are very reliable (I know of one that seems to break if you kill it and stop spawning for about 10 mins) And lets you fight anything from  solo dire spawns to a 4 dire spawn depending on how you fight and whether you can take groups at once. Its also sufficiently spread out and divided to allow quite a few players to be leveling at once without invading one anothers space.

While the dire cave change was pretty useful, I don't see the logic behind destroying 80% of the blue spawns.....

Theres now 3 very overused spawns left in the whole dam cave..... no scratch that.... make that the whole dam game.... (excluding adventurer quest)

I used blues to level up from around 40-90 on all 3 of my chars that I've got above 90, nothing else gives as good xp without being faster or having more resists or hitpoint recovery. Theres was also enough of them, spread out in multiple areas for anyone to level in there without pissing off other levelers (much like the new dires).....

....so its now easier to level high leveled players but even harder for ~ level <70 players to level up.....

No disrepect to Mumblee but i don't understand the logic behind choosing to "downsize" these spawns.

Mumblee can you change that Dire NPC =p change it into a human model.. something besides a dire.

If you dont we will be forced to engage into a deadly battle to...... ummmm the death....

*hands fb and Mumblee two slices of pie* Gentlemen you know the rules back to back 10 paces turn and fire!