AoM Contested Name AFK merc problem needs fixed

1) Determine spawn cycle.
2) Kill named with one toon.
3) Log to alt that is already camped there and AFK-camp it.
4) Repeat.

Problem not solved.

More changes are coming.

"I'm having trouble eating peas with this slotted spoon."

"Have you tried a non-slotted spoon? Problem solved."

"Maybe if I build a tiny clockwork catapult so my slotted spoon will launch the peas at my face..."

Endy gets it ( I hope)...Thankyou for addressing this

Yep

Thank you Endymion.

I would still argue however that the best intermediate step would have been to do as nearly all have suggested and make the named non-aggro.

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Yeah because nobody has alts lol

coming in the patch tomorrow (06 Jan 2105)
POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION
Tranquil / Phantom Seas
Players who kill a named NPC in eitherTranquilSeaorPhantomSeawill no longer be able to see or kill the same named for 2 hours

So that should prevent the afk campers from well.. afk camping

I really don't see someone camping the same spawn without moving to the next mob. This will just prevent the afk players from sitting at one spawn point all day and waiting to hear combat to loot the chest(s). Now others will be able to get kills for the weekly is what I am guessing?
I guess that is one of the few pluses about being on a relatively quiet server, fewer people to fight over spawns

I have full faith that the incredibly complex solution to the problem they came up with is fool proof and has 0 chance of causing issues to players who weren't camping the named. The simple solution we came up with of making the named mobs non-agro, must have had a hidden problem that we just couldn't see and probably would have caused the servers to explode.

We must think along the same lines lol. I almost can't wait for the update to go through.

Just make it a zw update when any player kills a named, update anyone who is in the zone, It's not like you couldn't kill them with your finger now is it?

I actually think this is a better solution than making them non-agro. Non agro only solves the merc camping problem, this also reduces the farming by those not on the weekly quest, which to me is really a bigger problem. In fact I would have preferred that the window be 3-4 hours, instead of just 2.

Mobs are only required for the weekly so make it a weekly lockout for each toon. That still gives 336 opportunities per week to kill it at the old spawn rate

I disagree - while making them non-agro might have fixed the camping with merc problem it would have done nothing about the farming problem, which on Oasis at least, is worse than the afk'ers. Makes it difficult to complete the weekly, especially in Tranquil Sea.

Farming? As in going from one spawn point to the next to see if they are up? I have no issue with that, because nothing is stopping you from doing the same.

Yeah good idea I have a better one, lets just remove overland named mobs completely.

Would not removing Ferrin from the Solo-Named and instead making them part of the Daily Reward be a simpler way to prevent AFKFarming? Instead add Heroic/EpicX2 Named that drop Ferrin. A 2-Hour Prevention system as Wirewisker pointed out, is easily exploitable by anyone with an Excel document. The issue is people are camping them for Gems/Currency drops they posses. These named are also Soloable.

What Ferrin? The only time you get Ferrin is if you are on the weekly quest.