Coming Sept 2017

[Burningsoul]

Could you elaborate on mega boxing? If allowing full botgroups + boxing a full zerg seems like a default strategy to plow through most content, is this a concern where someone will box up 12 toons with a hundred bots and run rampant?

This sounds like an ass-ton of fun but that concern stands out as a potential issue, most servers opt for boxing and forego bots or vice versa. Either way sounds like you've got something magic brewing here, can't wait to see what you do with it!

[The_Beast]

Originally Posted by Burningsoul

is this a concern where someone will box up 12 toons with a hundred bots and run rampant?

As concerning as that sounds, I don't think anyone would want to. Multi-boxing up to 12 toons is done by players,
but managing an army of bots on all the boxes would be one hell of multitasking skill, lol. I'd be taking screenshots.
But even spawning 6 groups of bots and getting them all geared will be tedious in itself. If a diehard player wants
to rampage through content with boxing and bots, the fun will be short lived for that player getting bored fast.
But those kind of players really wouldn't hang around a server that limits their desires to "run rampant" anyway.
I'm not putting a lot of effort into discouraging those players that like to run through content quickly. They
are usually concrete in their preferences for game play, so they will come and go, lol.

[The_Beast]

Originally Posted by Burningsoul

If allowing full botgroups + boxing

I just decided to do something a little different. I have reduced the HP/maxdmg/AC on all mobs to be a good
one-group fight. So with that, I can limit the bot spawns to 11 max (gives an option for one outside group)
and also limit the boxing to 6 max. This way, one can solo with a bot group or box 6 toons or whatever they
decide for a combination with the options available. If someone boxes 6 toons and spawns 66 bots between
them all, it will be an overkill, but it's difficult to keep all options open for a player and be able to come
up with a happy medium for the solo player which is paramount for this server. Those people who do cruise
around with an army of bots, they can be ignored, but keep an eye on any interference with others' game play.
Also, optional rule for any bot server : player won't get kill experience from bots they are not grouped with.