IDEAS FOR RYZOM

I agree to Arugula. One may rethink some of the KP properties when they come back, such as 3 KP at a time near Kami SC, or a delayed return of KP once slayed. Such proposals have been made before the fusion, and I still deem them valuable.

But the KP is sadly missing. Even more missing are the Kipesta and Kipucka patrols in Kitin Lair. KL is a boring place since the fusion.

To add that: Roleplay wise as well as under terms of reconstruction, it made sense that the KP was not in place. The Kitins were under extreme stress by the occupation of the New Lands and their defeat following the return of homins. So it seems sensible that they lacked trained soldiers to perform Kitin Patrol service. For the homins rebuilding their guilds and homes, missing KP gave easier access to valuable mats.

Nowadays, reconstruction is done, and easy PR digging only encourages abuse. Maybe we should deal the Kitins one more blow making them significantly retreat from our territories. At least then they should have enough staff from swarming veterans to reinstall their patrolsl.

I am not sure how serious the issue of boss camping is. During the last 3 days I encountered a lvl 170 and a lvl 270 boss without any intention to go for or having searched it. As too few of my friends were on, I decided to leave them for the next to detect them. A couple of weeks earlier, I encountered another lvl 270 boss which I reported to friends (I was about to log out at that time and could not wait). In neither case I saw a suspicious charakter in the environs. In some cases, bosses up to lvl 270 have even been called out in uni during the last months, therefore I assume the issue is more and more to get an apt team rather than just spotting.

The situation with nameds seems to have relaxed even more. I seldom see homins near known spawns of frequently searched nameds. I do not know about sup mats situation too much, but sometimes saw characters hanging around for no obvious purpose. Maybe they were just idle, or indeed spamming tracking spells. But here, I think that the return of the KP will be the solution.

About a year ago I heard and read a lot of accusations of camping against players I knew well. And from knowing them well I also knew that they had no need of camping as they were able to traverse every region of interest in short time, the rest done by /tar macros, and I saw them patrolling.

Using alts for tracking may be felt as abusive, and I do not like or defend it. But I think we should be more patient and not jump to too easy conclusions. Read especially the first part of Casy's post attentively and imagine you had to be the CSR deciding whether a certain behavior was unruly or not. The CSR are volonteers, and their efforts deserve better than being wasted that way.


Edit (comment to Casy not to waste space for another post): the 2 lvl 270 bosses mentioned were "important" ones (for PvP jewelry to be exact). Camping is to some extent self defeating: even if having an alt logged all time one has also to be close to the spot and able to gather a team (ok 3-4 players suffice even for lvl 270), otherwise the effort is wasted. And even that may not work without botting. So I would rather suggest botting detectors (which could be implemented on server side).