New Graveyard Zone thoughts...Follow

If corpses are a lag causer, then why not move the corpses to the new graveyard zone as soon as the rez timer expires?

And, just to keep the players informed on what is going on with their coprses,


"The Grave Master tells you, 'Your essence can no longer return to your body in [insert zone here], Zorash. I have had your body brought to me in the Graveyard. Feel free to come and pay your respects to it and me.'"


It would definately unclutter the areas around LDON entrances this way at any rate.

No offense, but that's just due to negligence on your part. I can see if your hard drive dies or your neighbor is planting a tree and cuts the cable line and the company drags their feet fixing it or your Aunt Bertha in Tinysville falls ill and you have to go feed her soup or a week, but what you describe is just someone deciding it's too much of a hassle to go get their stuff. Which is your choice, of course, but I find it hard to have sympathy for someone who just didn't bother.

Well, that's a technical issue. Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with the graveyard concept as I understand it. I'm just commenting on Zorash saying it's not hard to lose a corpse and then telling the tale of how he died, decided it was too much of a PITA to get his corpse and almost let it rot. Yeah, of course it's not hard to lose a corpse if you never make any attempt at getting it.

I'd lump crappy patches into the same load as cut cablelines, sick aunts, plague, floods, swarms of locusts and other acts of God.

murr?

*scratches head*

Never heard of this Graveyard Zone before. Maybe I should have read this thread when it was started.

Another one to add to your list, Jophiel. Sometimes - especially on LDoN where leaving is more of an issue - when someone keeps saying "I really have to go soon", I get a strong mental image of an irate parent about to pull the plug.

It takes only a minor leap of my fevered imagination to visualise the conversation going

"Get off that computer now"
"Gee Mom, I have to get my corpse back"
"I've had enough of this. Your schoolwork is suffering while you play silly games. You're grounded from the internet for a week!"

I know you never see people begging for gear "'cos my mum stopped me playing and my corpse rotted" but I do wonder.

This is another measure like the shared bank slot whose sole porpoise is to relieve pressure on CS. Now they no longer have to retrieve corpses from strange places they can just say "Wait and visit Shadowrest". I'm sure a lot of players are keen on giving relief to GMs.

I like the concept of the graveyard - I lost my first character and all the stuff after being killed in Gfay at night by orcs at level 14 since I didnt know about /loc. More important was the fact that my second pally lost all her gear when POP came out (she was walking in oasis and then got message you have fallen and taken 10,000 damage ... loading please wait). I was bound in BB and had to take the boat back to FP to make CR, NP except computer kept crashing to desktop after a couple minutes and ended up it was a week before a patch fixed that problem so I could log on and discover corpse had rotted with all equipment (was lv 29 at that point).

Almost didnt start playing again after that incident, grave yard will avoid both of these problems and I think a week delay in getting corpse plus no rez is a sufficient penalty for most of us to want to do a timely CR and rez.

Guess we can't win no matter what they do. :P hehe

Well, seeings as I have NEVER lost a corpse since I was truly a noob, and died in the water in Felwithe (lol, funny story, I'll tell ya sometime...) I dont think I will ever NEED this zone.

HOWEVER, I fully intend to leave some insignificant item on my next corpse, just so that I can check this zone out. The pics posted below have definitely gotten my attention. lol

Regarding the bodies in PoK.

Are you on a PVP server? Because you can't attack anyone in PoK on a regular server.

I have seen piles of corpses, artistically arranged there though. My assumption is that they're taking a dive down the library elevator shaft and dragging the bodies somewhere to arrange.

There are 2 possibilities I can think of. It's a throwaway toon or they're trying to level down to fight Naggy or Vox.