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#Post#: 4440--------------------------------------------------
Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: xb0n3z
Date: April 5, 2015, 9:02 pm
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Hi Guys,
I love playing on the Ground Zero server and enjoy the community
and rule set that it encompasses.
However the one thing that has been a grievance for me is the
loot respawn time. It's currently set at 30 days, and for me
that's a very long time. I like to find a good location, setup
a base and use the nearby city or town to be able to run for
supplies at least every few days to a week as needed.
I believe that knowing a location will provide goods in the
foreseeable future not only brings a reason to find a good
location to take the time to build at, but also brings a better
chance for people to run into each other on loot runs for either
friendship or fun pvp adventures.
Anyways, since this server is run by the community I asked
Madman and he suggested bringing it to a vote, so here it is :)
#Post#: 4441--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: SgtSlaughter
Date: April 5, 2015, 9:09 pm
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I believe you have a point, 30 days might be a bit long in one
regard keeping people close together for PvE and PvP, but if you
make it shorter people will just go far out, and know they have
an available source of goods and never have a reason to run in
to anyone.
It's 6 of one, and a half dozen of anther. We were just talking
about this.. 30 days in game time really is only a couple of RL
days.
Fyn/SgtSlaughter
PS: So, I don't care either way.
#Post#: 4443--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: Madman
Date: April 5, 2015, 11:33 pm
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Yeah, good points. I Just want to clarify that loot respawn is
currently 30 GAME days, not 30 real life days.
Please feel free to discuss it and vote. I will abide by what
you guys want on this. :)
#Post#: 4446--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: Aknot
Date: April 6, 2015, 5:38 am
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Its a slippery slope. There are good points for decreasing the
loot time and ones for keeping it.
I was all for NOT putting it at 30 days. However people were
able to still 'live' after the change. There could be various
reasons for this. Some people may have went so far out its not
even funny and as such there is no competition for loot. People
grouped up having feelers sent out to loot. People got situated
with a farm (the veggie soup is to die for) etc.
Then you have it on the other hand new people to the server.
Most times we are all a friendly bunch and offer/help out. Some
people though like to rough it and do things on their own and
when everything is looted for miles for 30 ingame days it can
get quite frustrating. Specially when the first people know
where everything is.
That in itself brings up things. Maybe you are forced to join up
with people, maybe you take an 'easy' way around the game to get
what you want/need, maybe you become a farmer instead of an
explorer etc.
Im good with the 30 days especially with the map split. Im good
with it being decreased. Either way for me.
#Post#: 4447--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: poppawolf
Date: April 6, 2015, 6:06 am
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I can deal with every 30 days, but I certainly won't complain if
it is reduced. I'm sort of neutral on the issue, really and good
with whatever is decided.
#Post#: 4451--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: imamthorburn
Date: April 6, 2015, 9:20 am
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I Was fine with 30 days. But voted for 7 days for the one reason
POIs are not as abundant as they have been in past builds.
#Post#: 4452--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: SilensVentus
Date: April 6, 2015, 9:55 am
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At work so I can't check the server settings. But I am fairly
sure when I was in game yesterday when connecting I saw a game
"day" is 60 minutes.
So if the respawn is set to "7 days", it will reset every 7 REAL
hours, or 3 times in just under a REAL day.
Hence, the way we have it at "30 days", we currently see loot
respawn at 30 REAL hours, or once in just over a real day's
time.
Obviously everyone would benefit from a real 7 hour recycle. I
can also see where a new player might have a tough start up,
possibly having to wait to catch the current 30 hour cycle at
the right time. Depending where they set up and how many other
people are around them, they could continually miss the chance
for loot. But, the game world provides it....if you are willing
to "travel" and return. I guess that comes down to how much
effort a player is willing to invest.
Personally, I don't mind it "taking time" to get established and
then work towards growth.
When broken down to actaul hours, I think "30 days" is fine. If
someone plays every "real" day, they'll catch the cycle and grab
some loot at some point. For someone who only plays a couple of
times a week (I vary between these two play amounts), they could
get unlucky and miss out on some loot. But, the game is still
highly playable if you are willing to return again or go
exploring.
I think 7 "game days" (7 real hours) might move people forward
too fast and max out an interest level to soon.
But again, highly personal as to what that means to each of us.
#Post#: 4453--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: Aknot
Date: April 6, 2015, 10:07 am
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I always thought it would be cool if they could implement a
degrade of respawn.
Initial Loot. Next loot 3 days. Next loot 7 days. Next loot 15.
Next loot 30. No I dont want MM to have to go in each time and
change it... :D
Maybe (since the are using exp) have a scrounge feature.
#Post#: 4454--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: Madman
Date: April 6, 2015, 10:18 am
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Yeah, I just hopped in the server and we are already at 27 days
after only about 14 real life hours. So, not sure how the math
works on the clock. That is of course assuming the days reset
when the host moved our server.
#Post#: 4455--------------------------------------------------
Re: Loot Respawn Time Change
DIR By: Jennorz
Date: April 6, 2015, 10:29 am
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When thinking of it in terms of hours, once every thirty hours
is fine to me, I don't see anything wrong with how it is. Jus
my opinion though :D
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