Bittty,
While some of the LA Bosses' (Pei-Ruz and Dante) loot is distributed (as one possibility) over the mechanism of the bosses-ryzom.com web site, there is a difference between the LA and HA NPC bosses.
The LA bosses are a single team challenge, no more than one full team is admitted to it (technically, it may be possible to smuggle more players into the area, especially at Pei-Ruz who is accessible - though not easily - from Void, but it is neither meant that way nor is it overly useful).
The 4 HA NPC bosses, Aen (desert), Lixie (lakes), Pei-Ziao (jungle), and Sirgio (forest) are multi-team challenges. Technically, it is possible to do at least some of them with two full teams of high level players. The open NPC boss hunt (created by Chanchey on Leanon long ago, longer than I am playing Ryzom) is open to everybody from every nation, creed, or alignment, from lvl100 ca. in heal upwards (few tanks needed, mostly nukers and team healers). The frequency of the raids varied in the past from 7 down to 5 days, depending on possible competitors for the NPC bosses.
The openness of the challenges has been passionately criticized by "extremist" role players who scold them as a "heresy". They are widely popular, though, attended by active guilds and players of any faction. The transparent distribution system, documented on ryzom-bosses.com, adds much to that popularity.
The time zone choice indeed poses a problem to players outside the European time zones. But mind that the event is an open one. Given you get some 20-30 strong and motivated players from the other side of the pond feel free to run a raid around 2-5UTC, pass the loot (xcpt the cats which are donated at the spot or later) to Chanchey along with a mail to him containing the names of single participants and guilds with #participants to secure just distribution of the spoils. Maybe some sleepless Europeans would participate as well.
Btw., I still do not think that these activities should be added to the event calendar.
While some of the LA Bosses' (Pei-Ruz and Dante) loot is distributed (as one possibility) over the mechanism of the bosses-ryzom.com web site, there is a difference between the LA and HA NPC bosses.
The LA bosses are a single team challenge, no more than one full team is admitted to it (technically, it may be possible to smuggle more players into the area, especially at Pei-Ruz who is accessible - though not easily - from Void, but it is neither meant that way nor is it overly useful).
The 4 HA NPC bosses, Aen (desert), Lixie (lakes), Pei-Ziao (jungle), and Sirgio (forest) are multi-team challenges. Technically, it is possible to do at least some of them with two full teams of high level players. The open NPC boss hunt (created by Chanchey on Leanon long ago, longer than I am playing Ryzom) is open to everybody from every nation, creed, or alignment, from lvl100 ca. in heal upwards (few tanks needed, mostly nukers and team healers). The frequency of the raids varied in the past from 7 down to 5 days, depending on possible competitors for the NPC bosses.
The openness of the challenges has been passionately criticized by "extremist" role players who scold them as a "heresy". They are widely popular, though, attended by active guilds and players of any faction. The transparent distribution system, documented on ryzom-bosses.com, adds much to that popularity.
The time zone choice indeed poses a problem to players outside the European time zones. But mind that the event is an open one. Given you get some 20-30 strong and motivated players from the other side of the pond feel free to run a raid around 2-5UTC, pass the loot (xcpt the cats which are donated at the spot or later) to Chanchey along with a mail to him containing the names of single participants and guilds with #participants to secure just distribution of the spoils. Maybe some sleepless Europeans would participate as well.
Btw., I still do not think that these activities should be added to the event calendar.
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