instance lockout

[tristinshandy]

hi i would like to start a dissociation on the lockout and how it works. as of rite now inless im wrong your ids much mach. i would like to see it. so that if i have downed everything in mdd. besides scarn anyone who has also downed all the bosses in mdd besides scarn would be able to join me to kill scarn so in essence anyone eho has the same bosses down would be able to start a grp and finish the raid can anyone tell me if this is bad idea and why i think it would make pug and guild runs better i cant see a downside to this so pls if there is one explain to me why this would not work......

[tristinshandy]

bumb if you think they should change the lockout

[tristinshandy]

anyone any ideas or is a bad isea pls help me out i for one think it would help alot for pug runs

[Noaani]

While I'm not against the idea in general, there are a number of issues that would need to be worked out.

I mean, right now all the game does is look to make sure any lockout I.D.'s in the group match up. This idea would force the game to open any and all lockouts and check them against each other to be sure they all match up 100%. The game would now have to look at information and compare it to similar information that it previously would have just loaded. While it doesn't seem like a huge thing, when you consider that the game would need to do this for every non-automated group going in to any instance (which includes every master mode and every raid), the resources it would use across all servers would soon add up.

Then there are issues such as what to do if two people are at one point of an instance and two are at a different point. Any changes to the lock out system would result in complaints from people in these situations. And what about if one group clears up to a particular boss but fails to kill it, and a second group kills up to the boss before the first, leaving the trash between the encounters. Players would consider both to be at the same point, but without some fairly time consuming data entry, the game wouldn't.

Oh, and you probably should expect to wait more than 15 minutes for a reply.

[MoonfireSpam]

My eyes, they bleed.