Nidhogg!?

[SwordCoheir]

Someone in the HNM thread just brought this up: what if every claimer for 5 seconds (or so) after pop got their name put in a pot and had one selected at random for actual claim. This seems like it would take care of botting. What do you think?

That would just encourage shells to bring absurd amounts of people to increase their chances at claim, and the shell with the best odds of getting claim would be the shell with the most peeps. Frankly I don't really want to bring a bunch of folks into the linkshell or to an event just to be able to have a chance to claim and just <easy mode> the NM with all those people hanging around, which pretty much defeats the purpose of having the new challenging HNMs to begin with.

Frankly the only way to get around claiming without encouraging bot use or some other exploitable mechanic is having low repop timers, be instanced, or popped. I'm not saying they can't try and be creative with it like they did with Dodore or the day/night spawns like the other HNMs, but we players are a notorious bunch that like to exploit loopholes and broken game mechanics to make our jobs easier and faster especially when heavy competition is involved.