Moorgard of MobHunter fame has a cry.

[Kathodos]

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.mobhunter.com/article.jsp?ar ... -388352791" target="top">MobHunter Editorial 09/12/2002</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Today, on all US-based servers, the nature of the way mobs spawn penalizes everyone in the four major US time zones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern. We're going to explain how exactly the game is broken, and urge SOE to fix it right away.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->Basically, he's argueing that because the bulk of players are American, the boss mobs should have a respawn weighted to coincide with American peak times (evenings).<br><br>However, as mobs currently spawn after patches, and as the end of patches tends to coincide with the early afternoon European time which is mid morning US time, "<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>that means Euro players can kill multiple targets before most US players are even home from work.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->"<br><br>Not a single thought for the Australian timezone of course (we don't count, we're not the client bases majority) even though we have patches landing squarely in the middle of our playtime, and by the time the servers come up in the early hours of the morning we're all asleep so that we can get to work the next day.<br><br>Yep, so very little sympathy from me. Funny, this is the first time I've really felt dissapointed in Moorgard's site. Typically, he does good unbiased reporting.<br><br>Surprised he didn't call for completely random boss mob respawns (normal timer with a +-12 hour variance), and possibly combined with more methods for triggering boss spawns (think Ragefire). That would have made sense. <p><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=59365" target="top">Kathodos</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> - Battle Cleric of Tunare - Tholuxe Paells<!--EZCODE BR START-->
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[Daesun]

I think virtually every overseas player has spoken their mind on his forum.. to the extent that his server crashed.. :)<br><br>You'll find my <strike>rant</strike>objection in there somewhere. <p>Huntress Daesun Quenya - Warder of Tunare<br>"SHUT UP AND SNARE DAESUN YOU POS RANJA"</p><i></i>