Hi Raesh. It's pretty neat what you're doing with tweaking the spawn of various creatures. Huzzah for that. While you're at it, do you think you could take a look at the Sky Giant area? That area's rather peculiar...it spawns 4 creatures if there's only one character there, but only 3 per character if there are more. And they're amazingly bad at finding characters. I think kicking the spawn to just be 4 per character and making them better at finding people would go a long way in improving the area.

Thanks,
-Life Sustainer Karthor

How about just turning off tusky spawn in stompers/maulers (not sure about headspliters, as not hunting them yet).

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-Raesh

Any chance we can get an area only for tuskies?

>As for turning off the Tusky spawn; I'm not a fan. There is only one at a time, he has a slow spawn rate, no ranged attacks and the other creatures don't have any cc attacks. I struggle to see him causing any significant problems to anyone hunting there if they are paying even the slightest bit of attention to their surroundings.

I thought it was more an annoyance issue, having to retreat or vacate till it despawns or is killed or something if you can't kill it somehow, since it's bigger. I know I avoid mixed areas because it's not much fun to run room to room avoiding stuff.

>>I thought it was more an annoyance issue, having to retreat or vacate till it despawns or is killed or something if you can't kill it somehow, since it's bigger. I know I avoid mixed areas because it's not much fun to run room to room avoiding stuff.

As near as I can tell, it doesn't despawn. I tried this one night, where I vacated the area (was getting fed up with him spawning like 10-15 min after I just killed him, multiple times), and left the area, in differing times(waiting 1 min, 5 min, 10 min, 15 min). EACH time, all stompers deswpaned, the tusky did not.

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-Raesh

I just want something skinnable that teaches me offenses on the mainland. Is that so bad? :(

I've never had too much problem with tuskies. While they can be annoying, like Raesh said, if you are paying attention they can be handled. I do feel for characters like Apu who have no offense or defense buffs to help with them.

The problem I ran in to with tuskies was more about their special 'attack' (that isn't so much an attack) than anything. Their 'stomp' is SO unbalancing that it really tended to leave me open to attacks from whatever zombie I was hunting. So while I was focusing my attention on killing the tusky, I was standing there unbalanced with 2 or 3 maulers taking advantage of the opening. I never found them hard to kill or otherwise problematic once I was hunting in there full time.

~Katt

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>>Personally I don't love it only because 2 out of the three variations don't really teach defenses, specifically MO and shield, for me. But that's a personal preference for where I'm at now. I do think that compared to other mixed hunting areas that one is actually more useful, considering the overlap between the three zombies.

This (sort of).

Mixed level (especially with such a large gap) hunting doesn't work, because when you're on the low end, one high end critter and boom you're dead. When your on the high end, every critter that's on the low end detracts from being able to actually learn.

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"Disagreement with the fundamental plan at this point is akin to supporting Richard III vs the Tudors."
-Raesh

>>As for turning off the Tusky spawn; I'm not a fan. There is only one at a time, he has a slow spawn rate, no ranged attacks and the other creatures don't have any cc attacks. I struggle to see him causing any significant problems to anyone hunting there if they are paying even the slightest bit of attention to their surroundings.

I'm also not a fan of removing tuskies (mostly because of "I had to walk uphill both ways in the snow, so you should too" syndrome), but let's all agree on one thing - tuskies in stompers (and to a lesser extent maulers) ARE a very significant problem to anyone hunting there. Yes if you are paying attention you can just run away and leave the area, but this is especially not very fun since tuskies to NOT despawn, ever.

Rather than remove them altogether, perhaps a better change might be to just make them despawn whenever everyone leaves the area, so at least there is always a surefire way for any player paying the slightest bit of attention to their surroundings to "deal with" them. Also perhaps it might be nice to make them more likely to spawn in head-splitters and less likely to spawn in stompers, leaving the overall spawn rate the same but skewing it towards people who actually like to see tuskies show up.

I also really like the idea of a tusky hunting ground, or even better yet a hunting ground with half head-splitters, half tuskies, but I guess I buy the argument that it doesn't fit the lore of Tusky as a mascot

Apu
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http://www.elanthipedia.org/wiki/User:Apu

I don't really have a stake in this (in other words I don't really care either way) but I think keeping them out of stompers might be a decent compromise if possible. I think for the most part once you're in splitters the tuskies aren't much of a threat. If you're hunting maulers at level they still pose a challenge/threat without being overwhelming.

~Katt

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Having had an extended period of time to play with the stomper tweaks I have just one thing to say.

<3 Raesh.

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-Raesh

>>As for turning off the Tusky spawn; I'm not a fan. There is only one at a time, he has a slow spawn rate, no ranged attacks and the other creatures don't have any cc attacks. I struggle to see him causing any significant problems to anyone hunting there if they are paying even the slightest bit of attention to their surroundings.

Any chance you could double check on this. Just had him spawn 3 times within 30 min (and this is the second time I've seen that).

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-Raesh

Raesh, in further response to my post (https://forums.play.net/forums/DragonRealms/Creatures%20of%20Elanthia/Responses%20to%20GM%60Official%20Announcements/view/352 ) can you please check out the tuskies again? This time there are two of them:

[Boar Clan, Derelict Togball Field]
Trash accumulates upon the ground in staggered clumps, blown onto the grass by errant winds or simply discarded by careless spectators of the past. The corners of a few benches tossed onto the field jut through the tangle of brambles slowly invading the area. Sticky mud underfoot emits immodest sucking sounds as people and creatures traverse the turf.
You also see an enraged tusky, an enraged tusky and a precarious pile of busted bleachers.
Obvious paths: north, northeast, east, southeast, south.

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-Raesh

If tuskies are too strong then I can see where that's a problem, but they do teach skinning better than anything I've ever tried (never gone to dillos) With 500 ranks and no arranging, skinning a tusky bumps me 2 mindstates at a time.

Kaxis

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