Could we have 3 channels back in Xaviera plz

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Friday, November 16th 2012, 1:49am

Quoted from "Malignatus;577366"

You *do* realize that it's much faster leveling to take those toons to TOSH-E and party them up with a decently-equipped 70-72 lvl toon that knows how to kite the bugs. It's so easy that even Paz can do it. If he doesn't trip over his own feet, that is. :p

While getting from 1-50 only takes around 35 mins with this method, after lvl 50 it gets stupidly slow...The highest i have ever plvl'ed anyone was to lvl 52 before i said fck this and ran out (leaving them to get swamped by bugs, muhahaha). If you can afford it, buying dog meat is much faster and assuming there are few people around, a few lucky pots and farming dogs is quite fast, though if i ever went back there then I would still be doing 3/4 of those quests (not dogs) as i'm cheap

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BenTAxeL

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Friday, November 16th 2012, 5:13am

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The highest i have ever plvl'ed anyone was to lvl 52 before i said fck this and ran out (leaving them to get swamped by bugs, muhahaha).

Cammo plvl me to 61

New challenge for you

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Malignatus

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Friday, November 16th 2012, 7:18pm

Quoted from "CammoXD;577389"

While getting from 1-50 only takes around 35 mins with this method, after lvl 50 it gets stupidly slow...The highest i have ever plvl'ed anyone was to lvl 52 before i said fck this and ran out (leaving them to get swamped by bugs, muhahaha). If you can afford it, buying dog meat is much faster and assuming there are few people around, a few lucky pots and farming dogs is quite fast, though if i ever went back there then I would still be doing 3/4 of those quests (not dogs) as i'm cheap

In my experience, and unless you have a good supply (15+ stacks) of dog meat handy (plus DRTs), once you've hit lvl 52 or so it's very definitely a long slog to lvl 60.

And that's on a single class. If you're trying to level two or three classes, have fun.

I haven't been up to the Gardens on Osha recently, simply for lack of time, so I don't know what the area population has been looking like recently. On your server (Thalia), things may be rather different and there are fewer people farming the dogs.

There's at least one person on Osha who used the bug method to plevel an alt all the way to 75 (two classes, I believe) in about 5 hours. That's not terribly unreasonable, but I'd bet that their hands were really hurting afterwards. I have no info as to how many times the alt may have died due to a botched kite.

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Axehappy

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Sunday, November 18th 2012, 1:31am

Quoted from "Dionaea;577160"

If a lot of players are in the same zone however the system should activate more channels.

Would now be a good time to suggest we have a CM event at Xaviera and see how many people it takes to trigger the re-introduction of the channels.

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Eustize

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Tuesday, November 27th 2012, 9:02pm

The only people that hang out in Xav on artemis are dog meat farmers who have a fit everytime someone doing a daily draws a dogs agro. Happy to see the resources cut down to 1 channel personally.

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Southern

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Tuesday, December 25th 2012, 9:10pm

Quoted from "Dionaea;577160"

To the best of my knowledge, the way channels are added is dynamical, if needed. So yes it is intended that the channels in some zones have been reduced to 1 as we already stated, mostly due to performance reasons and technical reasons, and under the evaluation for the best setting for your player experience and performance of the game. If a lot of players are in the same zone however the system should activate more channels.

Well Dio, I think we can safely assume at this point that this is not the case.

There are at least 100 people JUST in Xaveria/Inferno Gardens at the moment (2 full groups for butterfies, and at least 25-30 just standing around in Frontline Camp), and there's still only the 1 channel.

It's definitely a zoo.

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Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 12:48pm

Problem is that this is case only when we have 100 or 200 more XP, and as that is only 2-3 days a year, there is no need for more then 1 channel in that zone.

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Southern

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Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 2:24pm

Quoted from "RoMage;582593"

Problem is that this is case only when we have 100 or 200 more XP, and as that is only 2-3 days a year, there is no need for more then 1 channel in that zone.

Aye, but there was the assumption (hope?) that channels were dynamically allocated & removed as zone populations rise & fall.. But unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.

It's no biggie either way.

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Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 3:53pm

Quoted from "Southern;582597"

Aye, but there was the assumption (hope?) that channels were dynamically allocated & removed as zone populations rise & fall.. But unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.

It's no biggie either way.

Yes, they are allocated, but not dynamically. They can be switched on and off during server resets, which we did not have any recently.

Xaviera will be back to normal as soon as bonus XP is over.

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Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 4:57pm

Describe normal....

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sertet

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Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 9:49pm

Quoted from "vfwiffo;582599"

Yes, they are allocated, but not dynamically. They can be switched on and off during server resets, which we did not have any recently.

Xaviera will be back to normal as soon as bonus XP is over.

We had one reset on the weekend and one on the Thursday prior.
No one had any foresight to think "This zone gets popular during XP events, let's add to the channel availability for a week"

A real sysadmin knows how to change the time.
If you make the same mistake while trying to make up for the previous one, you are doing something wrong.

As much as I'd love to say I offer consulting services, the scope of things broken is too large.

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vfwiffo

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Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 10:53pm

Quoted from "sertet;582630"

We had one reset on the weekend and one on the Thursday prior.
No one had any foresight to think "This zone gets popular during XP events, let's add to the channel availability for a week"

Reasonable thing to do, yes. Unknown factor is how easy it is to make the slot serve the different channel/zone than it does currently. If it is a fair deal of work, one can expect such short term reconfigurations not to take place.

-- Rustyx --- 92R / 92S / 92M on Reni (Guild KnightShift). Yes, running the new FOTM R/M, cause I am not elf enough to be WD/S.

Oh, and people who have more than 3 classes are clinically insane.