Players connot join the party while you are engaged in combat

[darkstarpoet1]

If they just had a way that if you d/ced while in a party, when you log back on your name is still on that party roster list. If they have the mob engaged or not shouldn't matter, you would be in the party and thus be able to participate in battle. That's not adding players, that's not removing players. I think this is a doable and fair idea.

that was my original suggestion. it would not add new players. it would just allow the players that started a fight to be allowed back in the fight. not got from ok we have a tough 3 man nm fight going on to the oh it cannot be done without the healer.

by having the restriction it leads to an hour of timesink which is what they continue to complain about it timesinks for no reason. since you cannot defeat the mob without the member and cannot get them back in the original party you watch the mob despawn then have to sit and wait for it to spawn again.

[Duelle]

that was my original suggestion. it would not add new players. it would just allow the players that started a fight to be allowed back in the fight. not got from ok we have a tough 3 man nm fight going on to the oh it cannot be done without the healer.

by having the restriction it leads to an hour of timesink which is what they continue to complain about it timesinks for no reason. since you cannot defeat the mob without the member and cannot get them back in the original party you watch the mob despawn then have to sit and wait for it to spawn again.

I disagree on the allowing role swapping on the fly. You have to be conscious of how you jump into the fray, and how you set up your characters. Anything more than that makes things needlessly complicated and destroys any semblance of character identity (in before "LOL RP"). I'd worry more about fixing the DC issues instead of changing the system to work around them.

I definitely agree on the party spot taken by a member that DCs should be reserved for that person if they DC, and after a span of time (maybe 10 minutes?) the game auto-kicks them if the party leader already has not. Leadership would get auto-passed to the next member in the party if the leader DCs.

[darkstarpoet1]

I disagree on the allowing role swapping on the fly. You have to be conscious of how you jump into the fray, and how you set up your characters. Anything more than that makes things needlessly complicated and destroys any semblance of character identity (in before "LOL RP"). I'd worry more about fixing the DC issues instead of changing the system to work around them.

I definitely agree on the party spot taken by a member that DCs should be reserved for that person if they DC, and after a span of time (maybe 10 minutes?) the game auto-kicks them if the party leader already has not. Leadership would get auto-passed to the next member in the party if the leader DCs.

i mention the swapping from dol/dol once to a battle class because there has been times mobs will spawn on your group while trying to repair one of the party members weapons before the battle via talking to others on skype/vent and a person not in the call would run to claim the mob. that person would be just stuck not being able to join in battle because they were helping another member. then you would lose 2 of your party from the fight because one switched off their weapon to get it repaired and the other had to switch to fix that weapon. i just don't see why a one time switch only if that person is non battle/magic class when the mob is engaged would hurt anyone.