Rokien's new thread on Hamlet Defense

[Pyretta_Blaze]

I'm a little baffled about instanced hamlet defense and the 8 man pt's as I was thinking this would be something in the openworld you would go do when you didn't feel like building a party. However server limitations probably won't allow it to go smoothly and if pick up groups form at the hamlet easily I am all for it. Now we just need a little dot by our name visually showing that we are seeking ^^

[Starlord]

most definitely something players assumed, I mean it doesn't sound anything like instanced content. If its available for multiple groups per instance then ill be pretty happy, its gonna be fun either way but I think it would be better if more then one group could get in.

They really didn't say how many can go in per instance, so this is a wait and see thing.

[Krausus]

SE said it.

link or GTFO =P

[bobbygunz]

link or GTFO =P

I thought I remember it too.

They said that they needed to change the claiming mechanics for content like Hamlet Defense where multiple parties would be on the field at once.

I suppose I could have imagined it, but during the P.L. debacle, I thought they justified it by saying: "Hamlet Defense"

[Starlord]

I thought I remember it too.

They said that they needed to change the claiming mechanics for content like Hamlet Defense where multiple parties would be on the field at once.

I suppose I could have imagined it, but during the P.L. debacle, I thought they justified it by saying: "Hamlet Defense"

If that said to be true the we could be seeing Multiple Parties going into aa Hamlet Defense instance.. but I still don't remember this being said though.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

I cannot find the link either, but I could of sworn... I know I was certainly under the impression that it fell under openworld content.

And I try to be so careful separating in my head what was said by SE vs "the community". Honestly we "the community" get carried away theorizing sometimes and it gets referred to as fact.

[ThePatriarch]

I was unaware that 159 qualified as "several hundred."

There are more posts than my first one, good sir.

The 159, are just from that first post

[Zyph]

Yeah it's disappointing. I was really hoping for something like Campaign from XI, where players come and go as they please.

But then I thought about how the actual areas are designed, with only one entrance and no real strategic areas to divert mobs to, and I realized that that wouldn't have really worked either, everyone would just bock the main entrance and that'd be that.

So I guess this way they're doing it is probably the best they could do considering level design and server issues (which I guarantee are the main root of the problem). Come 2.0 I hope to see more open world invasions like Besieged or Campaign (the Garlean invasions are a good step in that direction, it's just the rewards kinda blow).

[Alhanelem]

I'm a little baffled about instanced hamlet defense and the 8 man pt's as I was thinking this would be something in the openworld you would go do when you didn't feel like building a party.

You shouldn't be baffled. The current system is horrible for open-world stuff. Do you want something like Besieged in FFXI, where you can only see a couple of things in your immediate surroundings due to the limits on displayed objects?

I'm not really sure why people want that sort of thing so badly even if the limitations werent there.

How about we like, actually try this thing before we blindly write it off?

[Payadopa]

I'd like to see people sign up for hamlet defence and then form a party. Just as behest works. Hope that with v2.0 we get more open worldliness. Oh, and content finder that works.