Post#7 » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:59 pm
Just curious, but why isn't this an option (binding in gh) ?
Im pretty sure when the GH was released it wasn't an option because we simply weren't able to bind into instances which led to the creation of the GH gate item. Now that we seemingly have the ability to bind inside of an instance why is the idea of binding in GH not an option?
It wouldn't make the zones barren by all means outside of GH. I am going to assume a large portion (if not majority) of people are still using the charm as their source of gate and not the GH gate item. This is relatively obvious by the fact that the charm gate spot down the cave is always massively crowded with afk people.
Same goes for the vale, a large portion of the people that idle in the vale are those who have used their vale gate item -- however at the same time I don't think the GH binding would effect this zone much as most people that go to the vale go there for a reason (be it ldon, quests, buying gear, etc etc) so they will likely be going there anyways.
Also consider that there will be a large portion of players who don't even have the GH option that are new to the server, leveling up, or simply not guilded. It still leaves for a large portion of players to be available in those zones.
Those are the main things I am assuming are the issues with making GH bind? I could be entirely wrong but just throwing out my 2c is all. Plus I never see anyone complaining about a barren server -- those that login to try the server out see we have a solid population from the eqemu login and those that dont see the population due to using the THF login are likely players who have been here long enough to have realized the population is solid and the server is great due to having taken the time to setup a server specific login. More often if theres a complaint its due to the laggyness of the forest (granted this is largely only an issue to those multiboxing several characters).
I personally bind at LDoN camps (sro etc) because from there I can GH gate and avoid the forest entirely because of the lag when I multibox. So this is in no way something I must have, just convenience factor is all.
As usual I don't mind whatever the result is - had time to write out an essay + curious to see what the devs thoughts are.
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