Notorious Monster Announcements

[Oakrest]

It would be great if Notorious Monsters (NM) would place a notice in the log when defeated, just like a Conquest update or any other server log. For example, it could be something like:

"Player ______ from Linkshell ______ bested Fafnir".

There are several variances this could take shape in as well, for example: it could just announce it to those who are near or in the zone containing that NM; or, it could announce it to the entire server. Another variance might be the level of the NM to determine if it makes the announcement (i.e all NM level 50+ are eligible for the log entry).

The main reason I suggest this is that since there are still numerous NM that have ridiculously high and varied pop windows, it gives those with not as much time to pour into camping a chance to move on and do something else if the NM was recently defeated.

The obvious downside to this of course is that those wishing to maintain a monopoly on the NM's time of death would no longer be able to - but maybe with some creativity there could be a trade off. For example; as an experimental approach, it could be an optional feature that would allow the player to turn on/off in the config (menu): 'Off' would be the same behavior as previously when an NM was defeated, 'On' would place a server notice that the NM was defeated as I'm proposing, and also give the player TH+1 (just trying to think of ways to compensate the player for giving up the ToD).

In any case, I think the NM situation has significantly changed with Abyssea, and needs this in place (ironically, it probably could have saved us all some frustration if it was in place from the get go). Classic NM's like Argus and Simurgh who still have challenging windows seem strange to not have at least a mechanism for players to not sit staring like a zombie for hours on end.

PS - my first post, hello!

[Lynchilles]

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Or just leave a mule in the zone and fix your chat filters.

[Sparthos]

This idea came from a Korean grinder.

[Kirana]

No. If you want the ToD for something, be proactive and get it yourself. The game should never reward you for doing nothing.

[Miiyo]

I think this is a good idea. I wouldn't go as far as to give a sort of compensation for giving up TOD. The best thing in an mmo is fairness. Like you said, it is not fun doing nothing for hours. This is why I "quit" many times back when level 75 was the cap. LFP for 3+ hours was not fun.

[Rie]

If you don't like LFP for 3hrs+, you won't like camping for 3hr+ either.

[Saefinn]

Saefinn of AAA killed Quu Xijo the Illusionary
Saefinn of AAA Killed Zhuu Bixu the Silent
Saefinn of AAA killed Hoo Miju the Torrent

Giddeus farming would just leave me too much room to boost my ego on puny level 15-20 nms. I love my ego, he's brilliant, as he would be, naturally. Not that I have to worry about my Tenshodo fame at the moment, but still...It could probably create a lot of spam in people's chat.

[Randwolf]

If they were going to do this, then it should simply be a menu you can bring up when in the zone. I know their are people that use 3rd party programs to get some of this data. So, the menu would simply list the NM name and TOD.

Secondly, if this was done, there is no need to reward someone or even mention their name with a TOD. Who cares? Their reward was claiming and killing the NM.

Finally, there just plain needs to be a respawn time reduction on the ridiculously long respawn timers. Including HNM's. Also, pure lottery spawns need a weighted timer, the longer it hasn't spawned, the greater the chance with each subsequent window. You shouldn't need to hang out in a zone the entire day waiting for an NM to spawn.

[RAIST]

uggh... just more crap to clutter the log and add more lag if you take the filter off--that is, if they also added a seperate filter for it.

|Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass...|

[Afrohatch]

This is such an amazing idea! I mean, who DOESN'T want to know when a random person runs up and kills Fungus Beetle...I just wish this was around when RMT were running rampant

Player Lovelygirl of Babygirlxx linkshell bested Serket.