As Warklin in the stone clan mines are actually getting popular, would it be possible to up the spawn a little?

almost a week straight it seems like one person is taking all the spawn, and if there are 3 people they literally just dont spawn enough.

It's a 6~ room area, I think more than a max of 7 Warklin might be called for.

Thanks.

While I'm not against spawn being upped, you don't have to let someone ruin your hunting because they are hogging the spawn. You can be nice and ask them to kill some so others can hunt, if they don't then you kill the critters for them. Win-win.

Basicly exactly as Apu said, not to mention that there is still a 7 creature hard cap in this area, even if one hunter is really cool with the request and only dances with 3, ultimately there just aren't enough Warklin right now.

Just to use yesterday as an example, I tried hunting there four times over the course of 10 hours, every single time I went in there, the SAME person was there dancing with 4, and was training on them, not mining, not to mention the other players that stopped in, got frustrated and left.

Kind of a quick critical mass situation, unfortunately.

Yeah, I just asked another hunter who's dancing with four to kill one of them, and (I guess owning to the slower rate of killing things), the speed with which they can kill them means they're dancing with four even without meaning to do so. It's kinda awful to sit here with one or none to fight, as I'm actually capable of killing them at a rate that outpaces their spawn. I suppose I'd also support an uptick in the cap, if people are going to be training in a such a way that limits sharing of the warklin with current settings.

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>Seems to me, critters should just spawn 4 per player with no area caps. Every other week there is someone asking for an area to have it fixed, and it's always the same thing... JoeBlow dances with 4, the spawn is too low for everyone else.

It's because if 100 people cram into sprites, and you suddenly generate 400+ sprites, the game would crash, and likely violently corrupt itself.

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>>It's because if 100 people cram into sprites, and you suddenly generate 400+ sprites, the game would crash, and likely violently corrupt itself.

So since 400+ creatures in the same area would supposedly crash the game (this claim is based on what evidence? who knows), we have to limit certain areas to 7 creatures? To put it mildly, this is not a valid argument.

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5 year old argument. It was always "wait until 3.0 hits."

Well, we are here.

(Not that area limits should have been affected by 3.0, but it was a convenient excuse.)

>>dancing with four at a time was initially going to be made much, much more dangerous

The problem with this is that they failed to address everything at once. In order to have done this they would have had to:

1) Increase the time it took to kill things
2) Make more having more than 2 critters on you dangerous, 3 very hard, and 4 suicide
3) Made critter spawn slower and work on critter AI

I think #3 was just too big to fit in the scope of 3.0 so they punted.

It's a shame, because the concept of multiple opponents ganging up on a bigger opponent getting harder and harder and harder was really brilliant. It would have been great for RP and it would have made 4 on 1, 6 on 2, boss mechanics really neat. While the latter is a work in progress, I think multi opponent mechanics would have been an epic game concept.

As it is now, people are mostly hunting the same hunting grounds, with less danger of dying and still using critter swarm to learn faster.

Before 3.0, I could barely stand in celps without dying, after 3.0 I'm standing in there with 3-4 on me, laughing at them as a spam cast a spell that can't even hit them and learning very well.

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>So since 400+ creatures in the same area would supposedly crash the game (this claim is based on what evidence? who knows), we have to limit certain areas to 7 creatures? To put it mildly, this is not a valid argument.

1: That is the answer I was given when I asked GMs about area spawn caps, in a similar complaint. Somewhere in the critter folders.

2: The response was directed specifically at 'why are there global area spawn caps'. Nothing else.

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Last post I'll make regarding this, but to conclude my request for this to be looked at, there are now 4(maybe more, just in hunt range for me as a survival tertiary) people in warklin, and has been for ten plus minutes, due to this, I have not seen a single warklin, the cap literally prevents there from ever being enough critters here for this many players.

Even being kind, good luck training weapons in this situation, here's hoping it's addressed soon.

>>Just to repeat, this really should be fixed.

It should be fixed across all critters.

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>> To be fair, this was more of a stupid excuse repeated by players.

Repeated by players... because the GMs said it.


>> The GMs actually did change several hunting grounds

HLC hunting grounds? 1% of the playerbase? 1-2 creature areas? in 5-8 years of complaining? Not good enough.

You can literally read the creature complaints folder and go back in time and see the same complaints over and over again.

>> Anyways, main point is that the GMs DO know that "wait for 3.0" was never a valid excuse, because they wouldn't have taken the time to change a bunch of hunting grounds if they thought 3.0 would fix it

Well, I'd say this was more on the lines of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." Most people move past the specific troubled hunting areas and don't post about it again. With the areas they did change, it was 300+ ranks worth, so people just kept posting and posting and posting. I wouldn't use this as an indication that they were not "waiting for 3.0."

I'm more inclined to believe that they just don't know there's a problem. Just look at Kodius's post about not knowing that bonding thrown weapons was a huge reason to bond. We just assume that GMS know everything because we posted about it, or posted about it in some direct manner, when maybe they don't actually know. (Not to mention with so many staff changes it could have been on a list at some point.)

>>Can a GM please comment on this? Stinks to find something I WANT to hunt but cant due to terrible spawns.

Warklins are not unhuntable? I'm not sure why you keep saying this. I hunt there all the time.