Discussion and questions about zone save changes.

[HavokBlue]

I have mixed feelings about this, because as far as playability goes, animals respawning quicker is awesome. When a GMH or Byn wrecking crew goes through the countryside and cleans out all the wildlife, and I get an hour to log on and hunt or whatever, I'm not SOL.

On the flip side, if I see eleven severed heads in a room, my first impulse is to erect a grotesque shrine to the Old Ones outside the nearest city gate.

[Dakota]

The junk command works with heads too...

[Inks]

It feels very mmoish now. This change.

I'm talking about in relation to mobs.

[Nyr]

Zone save changes went into effect March 30 (with some tweaks since then, and some more planned to deal with repops).

Reimbursements granted by month for the past year:

February 2014 -- 59
March 2014 -- 6
April 2014 -- 17
May 2014 -- 25
June 2014 -- 11
July 2014 -- 25
August 2014 -- 10
September 2014 -- 6
Octoer 2014 -- 36
November 2014 -- 20
December 2014 -- 73
January 2015 -- 15
Feb 2015 -- 30
March 2015 (prior to March 30) -- 32

March 30 to date -- 2

[BadSkeelz]

Nice

[Delirium]

The junk command works with heads too...

Yea, I do wish people would junk or at least dropdesc their leftovers.

[FantasyWriter]

Wow at the workload reduction.

[Lizzie]

If you're looking at "March, as compared to other months" then it's not that much of a difference between this year and last year. Last year there were only 6 reimbursements in March. A small amount compared to the other months, other than September, which had the same amount of reimbursements.

This year's 2 in March seems camparable to last March's 6 when you put them up against the amount in the rest of the months of the year.

[Nyr]

You might be misinterpreting that.

The change was made on March 30, 2015.  Since then (which has been mostly April, but we'll include March 30 and 31 as well) we've granted two reimbursements.

March 2014 -- 6 reimbursements.  March 2015 from March 1 to March 29 -- 32 reimbursements.
April 2014 -- 17 reimbursements.  March 30 2015 to April 20 2015 -- 2 reimbursements.

[Nyr]

As for the two that were granted, neither had anything to do with a crash (since we haven't crashed) and one was due to an unrelated bug.  We'll know more after another month or two as to whether or not the zone saves impact crashes re: reimbursements.

[MeTekillot]

Oh hey, that bug was me!

[valeria]

... neither had anything to do with a crash (since we haven't crashed) ...

This is pretty neat all by itself.