https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/bsmu8x/kevin_jordan_confirms_that_dynamic_respawns/
Confirmed by kevin jordan these were in the game. I rolled fresh servers ALL the time in vanilla and I never had to deal with what I was dealing with on the stress test. Mobs just all being dead everywhere never happened the way it is.
Stress test isnât the best indicator of how itâll be, but layering is what theyâre using to not have dynamic respawns. Weâll still have bottle necks of course, but thatâs normal for how high the population is expected to be at the start. If Blizzard sees people arenât progressing at all, Iâm sure theyâll try to fix it with certain quest mobs.
The dev confirmed there were dynamic respawns. The way it is now isnât normal.
I grouped and got stuff done no problem. Ran into maybe two bottlenecks, but they were speedbumps and not full-stops. Played for about four hours and got to level 9 on a Druid, and level 6 on a priest. Classic Realm 3, High Pop (when it was only the two realms).
Mark Kern confirmed that âoverspawnâ was in the game, in a different video. Which as far as I can make out, functioned differently.
Instead of ârespawning at a rate based on the populationâ, it was based on how fast things were dying, and whether all mobs were dead. i.e. The mobâs respawn was sped up once all of them were dead, instead of each mob being sped up based on how many people were there.
Kevin Jordan has always said heâs not a âsystemsâ guy, heâs the class fantasy guy. He said what he wanted and other people made the numbers work. So its possible heâs agreeing to the concept not the execution.
then do that. that has to be better than this
Layering is being used to fit 3 servers worth of people on 1 server because they expect 2 servers worth of people will be tourists and want to make sure thereâs a healthy population on the server after the tourists leave. (Disclaimer, numbers pulled from a hat for example purposes only).
Theyâll still need dynamic respawns early on when everyone is clumped together like you see at the start of fresh servers. Because thereâs still going to be a lot of people on the same layer given that each layer is supposed to be enough people to have the entire world well populated on each later. Condensing it to small areas will cause problems⌠5 min spawn timers donât work in that situation, they realized that in Vanilla after the first servers released and they went âoh, thatâs going to be a problem, we gotta fix thatâ.
Thatâs what these stress tests are for testing.
Are you hoping to get MVP status or something on the forums btw Eloraell?
Not particularly. Itâd be nice, but if they did, Iâd feel compelled to keep coming here after launch. More likely youâll find me hanging out in my realmâs forum only.
The problem is that most people are using this as a trial not to test. If they donât like the stress test they wont play on launch.
Thatâs nice. Smaller layers for the rest of us.
If people are using it for the wrong thing thatâs not on Blizzard. And those people who quit, would have quit in the first few weeks anyway.
Itâs just shifting goalposts around here. You have a lot of patience to deal with these whining posts.
Thing about it is, Blizzard can play with the layer sizes to get what people feel is right. Personally I think they should have 3000 people per layer, and if overspawn was at launch, use a version of it.
All the people complaining that there are too few mobs in a congested launch are trying to change the game from what it was. We had congestion. We worked through it. The weak fell away and the strong powered ahead.
Classic is about effort being rewarded.
You rolled fresh servers all the time in Vanilla?
Me? Launch and one other time.
And the one other time was far less congestion.
Had to resort to mob grinding for levels 1-7 against mobs higher level because the starter zones were simply impossible to complete any quests on, even in a full 5 man group. Iâm not trying to sound crass or insulting when I say this, but it was borderline unplayable.
The lesson my friends and I learned was to not roll on high pop servers. It was fine until the PvE realms were shut down early on.
In terms of latency and connecting to the game, it was very smooth. Never noticed any sort of lagging out or the like. Still had fun, but none of it was derived from questing(or rather, the lack thereof.)
This comment isnât helpful when heâs pointing out something that shouldnât need to be pointed out yet people are expecting a stress test to be an ideal playground.
I guess common sense isnât when applied to these forums.
I can read from your post
âMake it spawn faster so i can rush faster without having to group with the othersâ
Spawn time was making people group to be more efficient.
Donât ask things like this to be removedâŚ
Good, less of a mess caused by layering. THis is the only reason I owuld want an open beta. I wouldnât want to play it much but welcome the idea of tourists burning out before the actual launch.