In Orn the difference of just one level can spell doom for the players, this is abundantly clear to anyone who has been to any of our events. When a monster calls a maim and you have no way to stop it other than get out of the way and the healer can only fix three maimed limbs per minute, you may need to wait in line. A line that grows with the next re-spawn of the same or similar monster.
Abilities are what makes Orn work, but at the same time can break it. If you are on a mod intended to challenge the highest level players of the game and you are not one of those players, it?s more than difficult. We have struggled with the level disparity for the better part of this season. We think we have hit on a way to solve this problem.
We will be asking players to do their monster duty for the players that they are not within a level range of. For example: The brotherhood is comprised of mostly higher level players from the first season, so their mod will be far too deadly for players that have just come this season. So we would ask that you newer players monster for their mod. Consequently they would in turn monster for yours later that day or into the evening.
We understand that there are way more newer players than there are older players. This will make the older players? mods harder and the newer players? mods easier. As the head of plot I am fine with that. Of course this is just a temporary situation as we are still fewer than 20 full time players. Once we reach 30 or 40 we won?t be doing one mod at a time.We have to expect to grow.
That being said, we are looking for volunteers for next seasons plot team. For several events this season BJ and Jeff have run the new layer mod, and last event Ashley cut his teeth on the Urdek tower mod. They are all doing a great job and I look forward to working with them more.
If you are interested in plotting in the conspiracy with me next year send me a message and we?ll discuss what we can do this season to better prepare you for the task. Or if you just have some incite into a solution for this level disparity issue feel free to post here. Thanks for your time and I?ll see you in the field.