[Discussion] Upcoming Hot Fix

[Evangela]

What does he mean by "Implementation of a population cap for each field."???

maybe you can't go to that area if too many people already are in the area.

[Dashuto]

What does he mean by "Implementation of a population cap for each field."???

I'm late to the party, but what this means is this:

Each zone will have a cap population, so for example Behe spawns, and Coerthas is set to allow only 400, 500, maybe 700 people on it at once. Once that number fills, others cannot zone it, they'd be bounced back.

This was a feature they used in FFXI, and the cap was 700 for all areas if I recall.

[LordSideKicks]

High possibility you muz kill x 2/2 , y 2/2 and z 2/2 before boss zone will be unlocked. Better rewards from adds to counteract the longer grind. Anway more dungeons for tomes so it is not that bad.

[makke007]

When is the release date ?

[Nekodar]

High possibility you muz kill x 2/2 , y 2/2 and z 2/2 before boss zone will be unlocked. Better rewards from adds to counteract the longer grind. Anway more dungeons for tomes so it is not that bad.

For CM it adds at most 5 minutes for a slow group to kill the trash that is now skippable. Not a big deal if we need to kill those too even without better rewards.

[Reiterpallasch]

Maybe they'll give them huge aggro radiuses so they'll be impossible to skip, preventing you from being able to sneak behind them.

Hope so! There are still elitist exploiters running passed mobs in dungeons while trying to "speed run".

[Djeserit]

When is the release date ?

I would wager the 15th, since we'll probably have maintenance for transfers and it's only logical to do these updates at same time. Otherwise 19th, day of Live Letter.

[Judge_Hellboy]

I'm happy with all these changes, tho I admit I'm not entirely sure what they mean when they say "Implementation of a population cap for each field." Is it going to start spawning "instances" when there are too many people in a zone, or just not let you in?

I imagine it is for when zones get crashed because over a thousand people head to coerthas / shroud when Behemoth / Odin spawn.

[Kenka]

I love all of these except the population cap...

If Odin pops in Central Shroud/North Shroud low level players won't be able to exit Gridania? I don't like the sound of that :/

[MusouMugen]

Hope so! There are still elitist exploiters running passed mobs in dungeons while trying to "speed run".

Heh I was with a tank in AK the other day that I suspect was hacking. He could run in middle of mobs and not get aggro for some reason. First he tried to skip mobs and he was shouting something about us being fat noobs (he was fresh 50 too, not one blue item on him and hardly any AK stuff). But still, after we started killing, he'd run in to mobs and only the one mob in whole pack which he attacked would aggro...rest just left him alone and usually aggroed me or the mage when we attacked. Fun times, so many hacks and bots.