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Message ID: 13995
Date: Fri Jan 28 20:11:08 GMT 2000
Author: jhenders@bogon.com
Subject: Re: Re: Alternate overcrowding solution


On Fri, Jan 28/00, kim@... wrote:
>
> Under my system, the ghost could spawn every 30 minutes. If
> you wanted to try for DWB, you'd get a group together. You
> kill the ghost, loot, and if you're the lucky 1 in 10 you get
> DWB. If not, too bad. You killed the ghost, congratulations,
> now move on. If you really want the DWB, you'll have to trade
> for them. But instead of spending 8 hours camping the site
> (and thus blocking other people from getting their shot at
> DWBs), you'd move on to do something else.
>
> This would require Verant to work on generating enough quests
> and other interesting things to do so that we wouldn't run out
> of things to try to get. Something they may not be capable of
> doing.

With my luck and their crappy random number generator, I'd probably hit
50 wearing patchwork and wielding a rusty longsword under a system like
this. :)

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