The Hidden Forest

Hello adventurers!

Is there anyone interested in playing on THF strictly on 1 character and teaming up to play through all the tiers? Preferably new characters, so that we can relive all of the content (and if there are new players, so can they).

Nothing against boxing, as I play a group of 6 myself and love them. However, I think it would be fun to play through the content in a different light while waiting for the new stuff to come. May also be a neat way to try out playing classes in a new fashion.

If interested, whether boxer or truly a solo player, leave a reply so I can see how much interest there is and I can work on the details moving forward. Nothing hardcore, something casual to have some fun with and get to know the usual players through.

Thanks for reading!

I would be interested in this. playing through in a different light as you put it could be fun!

Would love to do this, but being in Europe it can be awkward to be on during the same times.

I'm all for a guild who levels using self restraint to make the experience more fun.

this seems like it would be a fun idea, id be down to give it a run

interested in this - would be fun to see where we can go

I have been away for some time, but lurk on the boards and saw this post. Is this something that will happen? Because, I am in for sure!

I will do my best to make it happen if the interest is there. I would love for there to be at least a group of 6. So far, at 5 plus potentially 1 from Europe which may or may not work depending on the hours.

I want to stay away from anyone having to box an extra to fill out the group as that takes away from the true purpose. But the option is there to box (maybe a healer if no one wishes to fill the role) if we absolutely must.

However, the point is to experience the content in a different way and that's difficult to do if boxing happens at all. If anything, I'd like to create a space for non-boxers to be able to come play with a few others and if boxing 1 extra character on my end helps make that possible then I am all for it.

I'm keeping an eye on this post, so as soon as I can see that the numbers are there I'll start trying to get something concrete to work with Times/availability, roles/classes, etc are all things to consider.

In hindsight to my last post,

Could also utilize the bot system and fill the group with a bot, and see how far we can go with that setup. I'd like to try that before actually having to do any boxing at all, just to keep the purpose alive.

definitely interested here.. but I'm on UK time.

Kuldiin wrote:Would love to do this, but being in Europe it can be awkward to be on during the same times.

I'm all for a guild who levels using self restraint to make the experience more fun.

Hi Kuldiin

Good to see you again

On this topic though somewhat not related, there was an effort a few years ago to rebalance content difficulty so that it was more suitable for non-donor guilds and I think that was a step in the right direction. In relation to this topic, one of the areas I may look at once the current content and ROF2 are both released and working fine is the server's existing pathway for smaller guilds/group content. Indeed, the content we're designing right now is primarily aimed at groups and small guilds (though some encounters will need a larger raid to complete).

I think it's important that there be a fun and challenging pathway for players who don't want to or cannot raid up and that includes players who don't want to box but can't form a 24+ player guild. There's quite a lot of great content already for those players (you can single group all the way up to ToV, there's ldons and group instances like ascent and more recently discord tower) but I'd ideally like there to be a contigiuous pathway through the tiers that bridges any gaps between those different existing areas.

The main issue, for me, is that anything that's designed for a group to do tends to be balanced by making you do that content about 1000x more to get similar sets of gear to raid content. I get the requirement for that but I'm going to spend some time thinking about how that might change, yet still keep things fair.

One place I'm going to start with is the epic 3.0s. Vaion's work so far on these is superb and most of the sequences and challenges I went through to complete these quests were so much fun. One part of my very long "to do" list is to continue these quests where Vaion left of. But before I do that, I'm going to have a think about how to make the solo branch of these quests a little more fun and less grindy/Everquest Live campy.

No promises or guarantees right now and this might be months away before I even start. Just wanted you to know it's something I'm thinking about.

As always, any ideas are welcome so please do discuss this.