OK, well first of all I like to thank MT for doing the town raid that was quite an enjoyable event

I was also talking to a few people and we came up with a few ideas for improvements for future raids to make it more interesting

One thing that would be nice is to have a mission, e.g. to protect the priest and so in this mission the mobs would target the priest and the players would try and defend him. It could even be possible that the city may have have a few magic stones etc that power a barrier protecting the church that the mobs would have to destroy 1st.

Another idea is that you should only have 1 life in quest, one way of doing it is possibly getting summoned to an alternate reality.

Another idea is to have a time limit so you would only have to protect the town/person/item etc for lets say 15 minutes until reinforcements/a spell is ready/sunrise? etc

That's me started it and now everyone has a thread to add new ideas and go into further depth the ones that have been previously mentioned

WOW, thats an ace idea smacky, thatd be nice to have. All these things are nice, but lets hold off of the ideas for a while, till b4 comes out, I jus cant wait, and id hate for it to be delayed for anythin

A few thoughts on it (I won't get into all of the higher ideas right now).

Instead of just a few spawn points in town, have some spawn in southern warzone and come into town by the jail (1x1's of course), some spawning in wilderness and fighting their way in, and maybe some spawning in town. I'm not sure if linked mobs will be linkable across maps (like stoneglow to southern warzone) or not.  That would also have the effect of forcing the defenders to split their forces 2 or 3 ways instead of all being clumped together by the statue.

A wide range of mob levels while good for allowing lvl 1's and lvl 110's to work side by side is a bit impractical.  Perhaps the mobs coming out of one area would be lower level/weaker, say lvl 1-10, another area lvl 20-40, last area with lvl 50+.  That's the only way I can really see wide ranges of mob levels could work.  Otherwise for massive numbers of low level mobs, let the low levels fight them and higher levels keep them healed (or work a low enough secondary) but then there would be problems with high levels that wouldn't waste the time on low level attacks, and low levels dying for no reason against high level attacks.

Here is one higher idea to cope with this (could be a bit tricky to code):  Have an "alternate reality" that people get randomly summoned to (arriviing with full HP, MANA, GRACE) where they would be defending the town against comparable level mobs.....i.e a lvl 10 would face mobs of lvl 7-14, a lvl 30 would face mobs lvl 25-35, etc and if there are 2 or more people within the range (i.e. lvl 7-14) they would ALL be summoned to fight.  If you survive, you receive the first life quest item (make the life quest several items over many levels).  Die, and you return to the "original reality" with standard death effects.  Succeed then you would not be summoned back to the first battle, but would randomly be summoned to the next stage which may or may not include an attack on town.  It would prove challenging even for groups....if all are roughly the same level but a few got summoned to first and a few to second quest, it would make it even more challenging.

I think Longirs idea about "alternate reality" but for groups, = CO-OP.
Kinnison gave me an idea. On raids, make so you cant get hitted by purple mobs.
And so that you cant kill grey mobs.

Another one of the related higher ideas:

When alignments/additional deities are institued, have a quest to choose your alignment/deity that anywhere from lvl 1-5 you get randomly summoned into.  Then you choose your path...Good, Neutral, Evil...then you must complete a small quest...perhaps defending the temple  of a Good deity for a time for Good, defending the temple of the Tabernacle for Neutral, fighting through Good/Neutral mobs to get to an altar of Moroch for Evil.  Minor healing would be available from the tutorial for initial use, but you couldn't learn an attack prayer until you choose your alignment and deity.  To go with it, when classes are implemented either another random quest (lvl 6-10) or choose it also in the alignment/deity quest.  Then when summoned on the life quest raid, if good or neutral, you would be defending, if evil, you would join in the attack or have to defend a temple of your deity from an attack by good.  Could also allow PvP in those situations?  That would be very interesting indeed.

Damn, my previous post was deleted......

Anyhow, I just wanna stick the post from the other thread on this topic here, cos it was an ace idea. 1 big, gigantic mob invades town, then we all have to attack it, brings community together. Everyone has to work together with MB, healing and PH. Once sombodies dies in this, they dun cum back till after. Also, its headed to a goal e.g.priest in church and it kills him in like 1 hit. SO, we have to distract him by attacking him, but as there getss less of us, we cant keep gettin sneak blows, we gotta get fully in there.

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PS what u think?

I remember that conversation.  You had said something like 20k hp  lol  I could see that as the culmination of the life quest......evil wakes Moroch, good tries to defeat him, neutral tries to save the Tabernacle.  Of course, he wouldn't be alone raiding the town, he would have many *many* minions with his immediate goal to destroy the Tabernacle itself.  That would be the ultimate battle imo.

Well, if he has an army as well, then we could have a lower level army with hi lvl moroch, and sorted. Between us we gotta defeat the lot. Might have a few killable NPCs on our side in there as well. The NPC number could be used to make the armies equal, so that if there are few people in stoneglow at the time, these make up for it.

So, say a particular army requires 2 VHLPs, 6 MLPs and 20 LLPs and we only have half of that, then the NPCs would fill in the gaps. Also, say for example there were 3 VHLPs, then 1 would have to be kicked out of town at random.........