Roger: It's time for you to step down. - Page 4

Coel · 02-26-2008, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sangre

I would like to jump on the bandwagon the non raiders were bitching about before ROK came out, remove avatar's from the fucking game, there should be no contested... if you put this kind of bullshit in, just take it out, it's a waste of our time to have to put up with doing the god damn conga to fight a contested...

id rather have fucked up encounters than no contested

Gage · 02-26-2008, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Niber

It makes me wonder if its not Rogers fault but instead the engine that's handcuffing him.

That is probably exactly what the problem is. Roger is one of the best devs on the team, especially in terms of experience. Seriously, all of you asking him to step down, who the fuck would you choose out of the enourmous dev team to take his place?

The raid content he has made has been some of the best in the game, he just puts it in way high up on the difficulty scale. Then he scales it down so it remains a challenge even when killable.

Think about the content he hasn't done... its only been worse.

Granted, the move around or wipe shit is stupid as fuck, as are some of the other things he has tried, but that doesn't mean he isn't a very capable raid dev. It means he tried something and in practice it didn't work as well as he envisioned in theory. Good now he knows that shit sucks and he can change it /shrug.

Snark · 02-26-2008, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Gaige

That is probably exactly what the problem is. Roger is one of the best devs on the team, especially in terms of experience. Seriously, all of you asking him to step down, who the fuck would you choose out of the enourmous dev team to take his place?

The raid content he has made has been some of the best in the game, he just puts it in way high up on the difficulty scale. Then he scales it down so it remains a challenge even when killable.

Think about the content he hasn't done... its only been worse.

Granted, the move around or wipe shit is stupid as fuck, as are some of the other things he has tried, but that doesn't mean he isn't a very capable raid dev. It means he tried something and in practice it didn't work as well as he envisioned in theory. Good now he knows that shit sucks and he can change it /shrug.

The problem is contested simply aren't contested, and haven't been for years (with few exceptions - like PHH).

They make them so hard they are impossible, so theres just no way mutliple guilds are going to be killing them.

Oh, and the difference in the difficulty is MASSIVE. Flame vs. Growth for example.

These encounters are staying broken way too long, with zero communication.

I would honestly rather have no contested than what we have now, because its just a frustrating waste of time.

Vaanir · 02-26-2008, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Snark

The problem is contested simply aren't contested, and haven't been for years (with few exceptions - like PHH).

They make them so hard they are impossible, so theres just no way mutliple guilds are going to be killing them.

Oh, and the difference in the difficulty is MASSIVE. Flame vs. Growth for example.

These encounters are staying broken way too long, with zero communication.

I would honestly rather have no contested than what we have now, because its just a frustrating waste of time.

I agree but, having multiple guilds contesting is a joke with the current lag and rending issues...
Cure, delay, adds.... cure, delay, adds, delay, cure, delay, cure, cure..delay, adds.... etc.

Snark · 02-26-2008, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Vaanir

I agree but, having multiple guilds contesting is a joke with the current lag and rending issues...
Cure, delay, adds.... cure, delay, adds, delay, cure, delay, cure, cure..delay, adds.... etc.

My lag issues have gone way down since the change to spell book dynamics or whatever it was. Not sure what the issue is on your server.

Sudden · 02-26-2008, 11:45 PM

Wow. Prime raid time, and all you bastards are on the boards bitching about raids while I'm stuck at work pulling an all nighter instead of raiding these crappy mobs. STFU and kill some shit already. They aren't getting changed overnight--- or are they.... hahahahahaha. FU SOE COMMUNICATE already!

tracheaspider · 02-26-2008, 11:49 PM

What else would I be doing while waiting for rezz? For the 50324th time tonight.

Slamdar · 02-26-2008, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by tracheaspider

What else would I be doing while waiting for rezz? For the 50324th time tonight.

QFE. I love how even having 11k+ for all resist does NOTHING against level 88s, not saying that it did much previously, but it's even worse now. QQ

tracheaspider · 02-27-2008, 12:06 AM

Oh, and the worst part, which was brought up way back in T7 after Mischief was added, is we don't get better loot or more loot for killing the im-fucking-possible avatars, we get the same damn shit as we do from killing the EZ-modes ones. At least make the stupidly difficult ones drop more stuff, FFS!

Endoplasmic · 02-27-2008, 12:57 AM

Nexona is AMAZING. Perfect case of a well designed and FRESH mob (to be fair should be moved later in VP since the difficulty is scaled a shitton). It feels fucking awesome taking down that mob, like Overking (also a fantastic designed mob). It requires a raid to not fuck up at all and serious skill is involved (adds pathing all fucked up is another story, but it doesn't break the encounter).

Raiding contested right now isn't fun. There is nothing fun about rolling a dice to see if you are going to be the one that gets fucked over. Luck/Randomness on multiple members of the raid eliminates any skill to the encounter, not to mention the fact they are fucking un-curable.

I don't say axe this guy (since he has proven he CAN live up to the task), but I do gotta wonder who on earth would think not being able to move (or HAVING to move) is fun?