Diknak

It's contested, which is one step up from everything being instanced. And I would be willing to bet that the third wing is going to be pretty rough.

Pink Poodle

We'll have to wait and see. But I'm looking forward to that dungeon I guess. Especially since it's not instanced. technically it is but whatever

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Argyuile

Yes I'm looking forward to SoS 2.0 where you can walk from one end of the dungeon to the other and not see a mob.

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firamas

I personally enjoyed the fuck out of contested dungeons in EQ1. Sebilis was a blast (mob aggro dynamics in EQ1 were part of the fun though =p). I wish they'd have kept further away from the habit of instancing everything in EQ2...

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Diknak

?? I can't say that I experienced that very often in SoS. And to be honest, if a zone is empty because there are so many people in it, then that means that the zone is successful because it means that people actually use it.

Faminne

Woot I will get to use the call again

"CAMP CHECK"

disco
ledge
mushroom
nge
Jail

"Woot Calling kitchen"

Argyuile

Ya EQ1 Lower Guk pre - kunark not a single mob up in the entire zone. Thank god for instances.

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gungo

The problem with eq2 is most zones cant handle the load/lag of more then 50-100 people.

There is no reason a zone like antonica would get laggy with more then 100 people in it. Yet it does. The zone size should support ~250-500 people.

I still hope the new mechanic dev keeps chopping away at the code to a point were we could do less instancing of contested dungeons, combine the starter cities suburbs of freeport and qeynos. And play without server lag ever being a major factor.

Deson

New mechanics dev?

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"Kitchen camped!!!!"

Faminne Shouts' "Anyone at B2"

"B2 camped"

faminne tells guild, "sebilis is completely camped, anywhere else you guys want to go?"

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There is a reaon why SoE went for instanced content in eq2.
People seem to forget that.