04-08-2004, 03:20 AM
So I'm not in the World of Warcraft beta, nor do I have much MMORPG experience. I have however heard alot about camping monsters in some MMORPGs (ie: everquest) and have noticed in the Lineage 2 beta that there are already lines forming for certain quest monster spawns that spawn one at a time or in very small groups. So that seems to indicate to me that camping will become a problem in Lineage 2 since one can see the problem growing even in the beta. My question is about how World of Warcraft is with these types of things?
I know the instance system is designed to alleviate alot of these problems, but do some of them still exist or do you see them happening when there are more people? For instance, in another post Jarulf meantions a disable a machine quest. It occurs to me that if there is only one of these machines and the game gets more popular, then it could become a bit crowded around that machine. What happens when 10 people want to disable it at the same time? Right now it isn't a problem, but could it become one? I guess my basic question is how do you think World of Warcraft will scale to having a mass of people playing at once? Will it not be a problem, will clans start to have members camping at locations so that their members can get quests quickly (with Player vs Player requiring consent this might not happen for them since I don't know how they could interfere with you), or will the masses just kill/disable quest things so fast that you have to wait in line for things to respawn. How is this handled outside of the instance system? Also just in general, do you think that current monster spawns are enough for when the number of people playing grows?
I know the instance system is designed to alleviate alot of these problems, but do some of them still exist or do you see them happening when there are more people? For instance, in another post Jarulf meantions a disable a machine quest. It occurs to me that if there is only one of these machines and the game gets more popular, then it could become a bit crowded around that machine. What happens when 10 people want to disable it at the same time? Right now it isn't a problem, but could it become one? I guess my basic question is how do you think World of Warcraft will scale to having a mass of people playing at once? Will it not be a problem, will clans start to have members camping at locations so that their members can get quests quickly (with Player vs Player requiring consent this might not happen for them since I don't know how they could interfere with you), or will the masses just kill/disable quest things so fast that you have to wait in line for things to respawn. How is this handled outside of the instance system? Also just in general, do you think that current monster spawns are enough for when the number of people playing grows?