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Originally Posted by Ketzerei84
I do like that day/night spawning idea. Perhaps, keeping it 'in-tune' with the 'live' classic spawns, it'd still be doable to day/night spawn... everywhere. Although it's a lot of extra work.... Could be something like: newbie zones: normal mob range daytime. +5 levels undead nioghttime. Etc.
Kunark and velious mobs could then 'invade' antonica/odus during set cycle hours, not necessarily night-time, and later on luclin mobs could invade zones with spires in them.
One of the thoughts I had for.. 'fixing' eq, was to make pok accessible only via the nexus and ports - keeping that sense of a large world that once made eq grand.
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Exactly the sort of thing I was thinking with level range variations or even double spawns rather than single spawns which increases need for CC and split pulling capabilities and you can have variety of that for both night or day and doesn't have to strictly all happen at once it could be gradual and different spawn by spawn basis though initially might mostly be done that way and tweaked more as time goes on to allow further development. You could also use it to create town struggles take two spawn types aligned to attack each other with it. It's a very versatile variable to play off of in many ways for different purposes.
Here's a link to SQL file I did to double SQL DB tables they have their own unused ID's for spawns which I ensured would be rather future proof virtually indefinitely of Faydwer/Odus from EQ Classic. My intentions was to also do Antonica as well, but it's a ample amount of DB work for one person I didn't see a big enough reason to continue at the time. It didn't garner a ton of attention despite the possibilities of being a great basis for a radical amount of added versatility.
I also left room in the spawn ID tables intentionally to increase it further to triple the spawns for almost like a survival mode walking dead type of server possibility that's heavily group/raid focused.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Y...BCeUlrV1E/view