Kim Read this... I would appreciate a reply, even in pm.
I think I'll add x kills + a random timer of like 1-24 hours, that should be hard enough to predict.
Kim,
lets be real. You can look at my tracker and see very easily I am a hardcore grinder except for the last month. IRL stuff.... that being said. since things seem to get resolved here and not from support cases. lets reflect a moment
Support cases were put in by myself and at least 20 other people that the system was flawed and the bosses only came on server resets. It took months and months to fix this.. Who benefited the same people who always seem to magically know whats going on and where mobs are before they are even announced etc. (Conspiracy Theory)
But many people suffered this while I personally lost over 100k cycling peds there to never ever see even 1 bone in the months I was there and saw stryker as well as a select other few get over 40 in the same time period. I made a support case way back then asking why the system wasn't balanced. Day in and Day out I would cycle for 12 or more hours a day and within 10 min of certain avatars logging in they had already looted 1 or 2 bones.
How long would you expect me to continue this way.. so yes eventually I left the area and have avoided it like the plague until we were told it was revamped and not based on server resets. But even more peds cycled and same result.
Your system of timed is flawed because it will be figured out and exploited. Second, the doing it for X mobs will also be exploited why... because you will have certain groups of people that will stand there for hours not spending anything except to kill those who enter some pvp cave or spend nothing at all till the boss comes.. then they mobsteal it from those that actually did the work to spawn it..
Do you think its right I should cycle 10k-20k ped a day killing mobs and then someone else and a few friends spend nothing then mobsteal? How long do you think I will continue to cycle peds like that?
Some would say get a bigger gun.. I do 156dps, it don't get much bigger than that, however it only takes a few people with medium dps to overtake that.
So is MA's goal to have everyone stand around with a thumb in ass until the boss comes or do they want peds cycled.
It has happened with every single event or special mob. ALL OF THEM
Wanna do sand king.. right takes us a fortune and long time to get there but with 25ish people maybe then magically at the round right before sand king 400 people r there.
Wanna do some rounds for the maffoid boss.. surely some people will stand around and not even shoot those and wait for the boss.
Marc. boss
and of course the Aurli bosses.
All these setups create a failure for the grinders unless they grind in a team to prevent mobstealing, which shouldn't be required.
While im on my soapbox, ill throw this in as well
Second Issue,
The endless amount of mayhems that only a few people can actually win.
you make it pure dps like MM. Terminator wins. There is only one in game to regulate the system.. balance ect. but we both know damn well it gets whored out every event.
What does that mean... 17 of the top prizes for MM went to the same soc.
What else does it mean. several people like myself who spend and lose thousands of dollars on events like that will no longer participate because there is NO POSSIBLE WAY TO WIN.
Gear should be locked to players during an event. When event is over, unlock the gear. Its that simple.
The same issue exists with these point getting Mayhem events. It was proven with the Halloween MM. You said that it wasn't a dps competition, but there again those with the Terminator won by dps not luck due to pure stastics. So the random factor of collecting pumpkins or whatever is flawed.
Third issue.
99% of the time, items drop in waves, days of nothing, maybe playing 13hr a day, then go off for a few hours and 5 items drop. a few on each planet within a super short period of time...
Why cant it just be random and not in waves like that. This really screws a lot of people.
I don't say any of this to be mean. Its just fact. I want to help. If you need other ideas of how these distributions should be done, let me know.