Dungeon Camping - Guild style

So, this was brought up on Discord and the mods asked we move it away from "questions".
Guild camping a dungeon.
I see someone say it's realistic. My answer....not really.
If a guild camps a dungeon that closes that dungeon off to small groups and guild.
BUT more then that, if you want actual realism then once a guild clears a dungeon, mobs should stop popping. A dungeon cleared and populated with guild members should cease functioning as a dungeon and become a base of operations for the guild.
Maybe after the guild has cleared out and away from the dungeon it would revert to being a dungeon again, maybe give it a random amount of time, say up to 7 days and if someone from that guild enters the entrance of the dungeon the timer resets.

Alternatively maybe more functionality.
For instance, say it was a bandit stronghold. Well higher level bandit groups find out their people have been ousted and plot revenge. Not stupidly throw waves at the guild, but scout them, watch when they are weakest and attack. Maybe even attack from passages the guild did not find.

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Lalli

I don't know if I understand it all correctly but from what I understand your saying I do not think that would be feasible. It would have to be instanced (wish would kinda make it pointless) or there would have to be a ton of dungeons in the game. Maybe if other guilds were able to pvp and raid the dungeon turned hideout but I don't think it would be worth the time to code all of it.

By bandits do you mean npcs?

DracoKalen

Lalli wrote: »

I don't know if I understand it all correctly but from what I understand your saying I do not think that would be feasible. It would have to be instanced (wish would kinda make it pointless) or there would have to be a ton of dungeons in the game. Maybe if other guilds were able to pvp and raid the dungeon turned hideout but I don't think it would be worth the time to code all of it.

By bandits do you mean npcs?

Bandits as in NPC bandits.
The functionality will already be available for other guilds to attack the occupying guild. But there should be a natural challenge by the displaced occupants. Sure it will take extra coding but really if they're going to allow occupation the usual wait....kill, loot, wait kill loot should be an increasing challenge to the occupying force.

Lalli

noaani wrote: »

Who said the game was after realism?
It's worthless discussions like this that is why I don't use Discord. Please keep such worthless discussions there - we have enough of our own worthless discussions here.

Chill. No need to be rude.

DracoKalen wrote: »

Bandits as in NPC bandits.
The functionality will already be available for other guilds to attack the occupying guild. But there should be a natural challenge by the displaced occupants. Sure it will take extra coding but really if they're going to allow occupation the usual wait....kill, loot, wait kill loot should be an increasing challenge to the occupying force.

I don't think it would be worth the effort to code myself because I don't think they could make it work like you want. I'd imagine it would just be clunky and like any other pve interaction. If only we could use AI to make it work.

Jahlon

So here's the thing, yes a guild could camp a dungeon.

Guild [Campers] decides this is their dungeon and nobody else gets to run it. Ok, that's great. But mechanically how does that play out?

Guild [A] comes along and enters the dungeon. Campers decides to war dec them to keep them out of the dungeon. Now, everywhere in the world Campers has to face Guild A.

Guild comes along and enters the dungeon. Campers decides to war dec them to keep them out. Now everywhere in the world Campers has to face Guilds A and B.

Guild C comes along. Campers can't afford another war, so they decide to flag on Guild C to keep them out. Guild C doesn't fight back, so Campers get saddled with a ton of corruption.

Guild D comes along because they heard about Campers. Guild D Guild Wars Campers for the PVP.

Now, Campers are trying to fight 3 Guild Wars all while earning back XP from having been corruption bombed.

Now looking at this for a minute, does this make much sense? Do you think Campers is going to be able to actually camp the dungeon very long?

DracoKalen

Jahlon wrote: »

So here's the thing, yes a guild could camp a dungeon.

Guild [Campers] decides this is their dungeon and nobody else gets to run it. Ok, that's great. But mechanically how does that play out?

Guild [A] comes along and enters the dungeon. Campers decides to war dec them to keep them out of the dungeon. Now, everywhere in the world Campers has to face Guild A.

Guild comes along and enters the dungeon. Campers decides to war dec them to keep them out. Now everywhere in the world Campers has to face Guilds A and B.

Guild C comes along. Campers can't afford another war, so they decide to flag on Guild C to keep them out. Guild C doesn't fight back, so Campers get saddled with a ton of corruption.

Guild D comes along because they heard about Campers. Guild D Guild Wars Campers for the PVP.

Now, Campers are trying to fight 3 Guild Wars all while earning back XP from having been corruption bombed.

Now looking at this for a minute, does this make much sense? Do you think Campers is going to be able to actually camp the dungeon very long?

Well that's assuming a lot of guilds. But under the given scenario you would be correct.

Jahlon

DracoKalen wrote: »

Jahlon wrote: »

So here's the thing, yes a guild could camp a dungeon.

Guild [Campers] decides this is their dungeon and nobody else gets to run it. Ok, that's great. But mechanically how does that play out?

Guild [A] comes along and enters the dungeon. Campers decides to war dec them to keep them out of the dungeon. Now, everywhere in the world Campers has to face Guild A.

Guild comes along and enters the dungeon. Campers decides to war dec them to keep them out. Now everywhere in the world Campers has to face Guilds A and B.

Guild C comes along. Campers can't afford another war, so they decide to flag on Guild C to keep them out. Guild C doesn't fight back, so Campers get saddled with a ton of corruption.

Guild D comes along because they heard about Campers. Guild D Guild Wars Campers for the PVP.

Now, Campers are trying to fight 3 Guild Wars all while earning back XP from having been corruption bombed.

Now looking at this for a minute, does this make much sense? Do you think Campers is going to be able to actually camp the dungeon very long?

Well that's assuming a lot of guilds. But under the given scenario you would be correct.

Well given a guild size is 300, and there are 10,000 concurrent players, I don't think a single guild is going to get away with camping a dungeon

a) without someone trying to run it anyway
b) without a PvP guild coming from the fights

DracoKalen

Jahlon wrote: »

DracoKalen wrote: »

Jahlon wrote: »

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Well that's assuming a lot of guilds. But under the given scenario you would be correct.

Well given a guild size is 300, and there are 10,000 concurrent players, I don't think a single guild is going to get away with camping a dungeon

a) without someone trying to run it anyway
b) without a PvP guild coming from the fights

A guild size of 300. Is that the largest a guild can be?

Not sure what you're trying to say at "b)"

Lalli

Jahlon wrote: »

Well given a guild size is 300, and there are 10,000 concurrent players, I don't think a single guild is going to get away with camping a dungeon

a) without someone trying to run it anyway
b) without a PvP guild coming from the fights

Guild size is 300 but you can just make multiple guilds for a single group. Also there could be alliances.

Noaani

DracoKalen wrote: »

Maybe after the guild has cleared out and away from the dungeon it would revert to being a dungeon again,

So, if this happened, the developers would need to actually dedicate time and resources to it to make it a viable mechanic.

With the known player cap on guilds, how long do you propose it would be until every dungeon was claimed by one guild or another?

How do you propose players complete quests that require dungeons?

How much would it cost Intrepid to design all of these unique dungeons, populate them many times over to account for different node configurations, and then have all of that time, effort and money for naught because some guild decided to make that dungeon their guild hall rather than using the already known guild halls?

How many players will leave the game due to there being no dungeon content?

DracoKalen wrote: »

Not sure what you're trying to say at "b)"

What Jahlon is saying is that if a guild did attempt to hold a dungeon, they would have trouble holding it when a PvP guild came along for a fight.

Either the system would need to be designed around it not being something that guilds would hold, in which case, why would they bother? Leading then to - why should intrepid bother?

Or - Intrepid would need to develop a system whereby guilds can fortify these dungeons in order to hold off attacks. This means that now Intrepid need to develop each dungeon for a multitude of node states, but also for a multitude of player defense states.

This is untenable as a design paradigm if Ashes is to be released before 2030 (that is neither a joke nor an exaggeration), or if the intention is for Ashes to make a profit.

Razor 615

Maybe i have just been playing different kind of MMORPG's but for me this is not an issue rather its an experience. You are not promised the world, you should not be given everything and no, not everything is fair! But that is what creates experiences, stories! Some of them will be losses and some victories. When it comes to guilds camping dungeons. Its up to the community to fight them or join them! Don't wonder if the "Hero" guild will exist in the game that will do it! Make it! Join it! Create the experience!

DracoKalen

Lalli wrote: »

Jahlon wrote: »

Well given a guild size is 300, and there are 10,000 concurrent players, I don't think a single guild is going to get away with camping a dungeon

a) without someone trying to run it anyway
b) without a PvP guild coming from the fights

Guild size is 300 but you can just make multiple guilds for a single group. Also there could be alliances.

I was just thinking, if you get a series of guilds banding together like your speaking of other guilds would also have to band together and while you couldn't make one huge guild you certainly could put together a huge multi-guild monstrosity

DracoKalen

noaani wrote: »

DracoKalen wrote: »

Maybe after the guild has cleared out and away from the dungeon it would revert to being a dungeon again,

So, if this happened, the developers would need to actually dedicate time and resources to it to make it a viable mechanic.

With the known player cap on guilds, how long do you propose it would be until every dungeon was claimed by one guild or another?

How do you propose players complete quests that require dungeons?

How much would it cost Intrepid to design all of these unique dungeons, populate them many times over to account for different node configurations, and then have all of that time, effort and money for naught because some guild decided to make that dungeon their guild hall rather than using the already known guild halls?

How many players will leave the game due to there being no dungeon content?

DracoKalen wrote: »

Not sure what you're trying to say at "b)"

What Jahlon is saying is that if a guild did attempt to hold a dungeon, they would have trouble holding it when a PvP guild came along for a fight.

Either the system would need to be designed around it not being something that guilds would hold, in which case, why would they bother? Leading then to - why should intrepid bother?

Or - Intrepid would need to develop a system whereby guilds can fortify these dungeons in order to hold off attacks. This means that now Intrepid need to develop each dungeon for a multitude of node states, but also for a multitude of player defense states.

This is untenable as a design paradigm if Ashes is to be released before 2030 (that is neither a joke nor an exaggeration), or if the intention is for Ashes to make a profit.

You're kind of making my argument for me with guilds camping dungeons. Small groups and guilds would end up pretty much giving up and moving on as the dungeon would still be unavailable.

DracoKalen

Razorath wrote: »

Maybe i have just been playing different kind of MMORPG's but for me this is not an issue rather its an experience. You are not promised the world, you should not be given everything and no, not everything is fair! But that is what creates experiences, stories! Some of them will be losses and some victories. When it comes to guilds camping dungeons. Its up to the community to fight them or join them! Don't wonder if the "Hero" guild will exist in the game that will do it! Make it! Join it! Create the experience!

You make some invalid assumptions. No one said anyone "wanted the world". I'm speaking of equal opportunity access.

Razor 615

DracoKalen wrote: »

Razorath wrote: »

Maybe i have just been playing different kind of MMORPG's but for me this is not an issue rather its an experience. You are not promised the world, you should not be given everything and no, not everything is fair! But that is what creates experiences, stories! Some of them will be losses and some victories. When it comes to guilds camping dungeons. Its up to the community to fight them or join them! Don't wonder if the "Hero" guild will exist in the game that will do it! Make it! Join it! Create the experience!

You make some invalid assumptions. No one said anyone "wanted the world". I'm speaking of equal opportunity access.

There aren't equal opportunities, you fight and make your opportunities.

Razor 615

Obviously i don't know what will the final design be and how will Intrepid do it. But ofc this is just my opinions. Either way i love this project. But i remember PvPing for World Raid bosses in Lineage 2 for hours before they even spawned so that we make sure our clan gets to kill it as the loot was only given to one party and you wanted that party to be in your clan. So my experiences and ideas are different than many, i understand that

DracoKalen

Razorath wrote: »

DracoKalen wrote: »

Razorath wrote: »

Maybe i have just been playing different kind of MMORPG's but for me this is not an issue rather its an experience. You are not promised the world, you should not be given everything and no, not everything is fair! But that is what creates experiences, stories! Some of them will be losses and some victories. When it comes to guilds camping dungeons. Its up to the community to fight them or join them! Don't wonder if the "Hero" guild will exist in the game that will do it! Make it! Join it! Create the experience!

You make some invalid assumptions. No one said anyone "wanted the world". I'm speaking of equal opportunity access.

There aren't equal opportunities, you fight and make your opportunities.

And that's where you're wrong. If you have large guild groups keeping smaller groups/guilds from experiencing the game that keeps people from enjoying the game. The dungeon should be the challenge.

Noaani

DracoKalen wrote: »

noaani wrote: »

DracoKalen wrote: »

Maybe after the guild has cleared out and away from the dungeon it would revert to being a dungeon again,

So, if this happened, the developers would need to actually dedicate time and resources to it to make it a viable mechanic.

With the known player cap on guilds, how long do you propose it would be until every dungeon was claimed by one guild or another?

How do you propose players complete quests that require dungeons?

How much would it cost Intrepid to design all of these unique dungeons, populate them many times over to account for different node configurations, and then have all of that time, effort and money for naught because some guild decided to make that dungeon their guild hall rather than using the already known guild halls?

How many players will leave the game due to there being no dungeon content?

DracoKalen wrote: »

Not sure what you're trying to say at "b)"

What Jahlon is saying is that if a guild did attempt to hold a dungeon, they would have trouble holding it when a PvP guild came along for a fight.

Either the system would need to be designed around it not being something that guilds would hold, in which case, why would they bother? Leading then to - why should intrepid bother?

Or - Intrepid would need to develop a system whereby guilds can fortify these dungeons in order to hold off attacks. This means that now Intrepid need to develop each dungeon for a multitude of node states, but also for a multitude of player defense states.

This is untenable as a design paradigm if Ashes is to be released before 2030 (that is neither a joke nor an exaggeration), or if the intention is for Ashes to make a profit.

You're kind of making my argument for me with guilds camping dungeons. Small groups and guilds would end up pretty much giving up and moving on as the dungeon would still be unavailable.

But you haven't given a reason as to why guilds would WANT to camp a dungeon. Instead, you gave suggestions as to potential incentives that make no sense to implement from a business or game design perspective.

Getting 300 people together to perform an activity that takes them many hours and has no benefit other than the lol's doesn't happen that often. Even if a guild on a server did decide to do this one day, that would be one dungeon, and players will have other dungeons they can go to on that one specific day.

The only time this would become an issue is if guilds are given an incentive to camp a dungeon. There is none inherent in the game, and so if none are given, then this whole thing is a non-issue.

Razor 615

DracoKalen wrote: »

Razorath wrote: »

DracoKalen wrote: »

Razorath wrote: »

Maybe i have just been playing different kind of MMORPG's but for me this is not an issue rather its an experience. You are not promised the world, you should not be given everything and no, not everything is fair! But that is what creates experiences, stories! Some of them will be losses and some victories. When it comes to guilds camping dungeons. Its up to the community to fight them or join them! Don't wonder if the "Hero" guild will exist in the game that will do it! Make it! Join it! Create the experience!

You make some invalid assumptions. No one said anyone "wanted the world". I'm speaking of equal opportunity access.

There aren't equal opportunities, you fight and make your opportunities.

And that's where you're wrong. If you have large guild groups keeping smaller groups/guilds from experiencing the game that keeps people from enjoying the game. The dungeon should be the challenge.

Why can't both be the challenge? There are plenty of games out there where you can just open up a tab and click the "Enter" button and do the dungeon so many times it becomes a boring habit that means nothing, completing it is not special in anyway. no matter how hard the dungeon it becomes easy after awhile, its no longer special.

George_Black

It's so funny to see such frightened speculations and fears, while some of us have played L2 mmorpg and we know that it's not a big deal if a guild camps a dungeon.

There might be a bit of pvp. A bit of corruption but at the end of the d.. hour everything returns back to normal and the game isnt rly affected by such guild shenanigans

Razor 615

George Black wrote: »

It's so funny to see such frightened speculations and fears, while some of us have played L2 mmorpg and we know that it's not a big deal if a guild camps a dungeon.

There might be a bit of pvp. A bit of corruption but at the end of the d.. hour everything returns back to normal and the game isnt rly affected by such guild shenanigans

High end raids will be effected as guilds will want the reward for them selves, if its done similar to L2 with drop system. Normal dungeons will not be affected. For me that is a part of the experience.

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