Zhoyzu wrote: »

itwould be interesting for the 1-50 zones. no one occupies vet zones and thats where the wave idea falls off. eh, i never really cared about it as much. For being the god of schemes he didnt really think through the anchors idea very well. " im going to pull oddly specific locations with minimal traffic into cold harbour through a smaller then ideal portal, muahaha" also like no one noticed the construction of the anchors base????

Or that's where things could really get interesting. You port to Bankorai and are dropped into a bloodbath of Daedra waiting to attack you because no one closed the portal.....

The fights would make the lower zones a lot more fun for sure. But it could also help keep people in the Vet zones as well.

Nestor wrote: »

I am not sure if a a Solo Dolmen fight should guarantee a General, that would be a source of drama. Like when one person starts it, and another happens to come along.

They do scale somewhat to the number of players at the Dolmens, I see more mobs when there are more players fighting. Not sure when that scale is set though. However they could be tougher fights and the mobs a bit more numerous.

I think it would be nice to add a Group Dolmen to each zone, where there is no way your going to win unless you have a group with you. If you try to solo it, your served up as the first course at Sheogorath's table.

The General summoned doesn't necessarily need to be one that achievements are based off of. I should have worded that more of as a Leader/Summoner instead of a General but you get the idea.

I really like this idea.... The radius should be so wide that if all anchors in a zone are ignored the entire zone eventually becomes overrun with Daedra... so much so that Merchants hide, shops close, towns go on lockdown.

A zone ignored would just eventually shut down.

Gidorick wrote: »

I really like this idea.... The radius should be so wide that if all anchors in a zone are ignored the entire zone eventually becomes overrun with Daedra... so much so that Merchants hide, shops close, towns go on lockdown.

A zone ignored would just eventually shut down.

Exactly. I think it would be a blast. It could totally catch people off guard randomly porting into places only to find the Daedra have taken over the area and shops have closed down until it's safe for them again.

UrQuan wrote: »

Robbmrp wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

I really like this idea.... The radius should be so wide that if all anchors in a zone are ignored the entire zone eventually becomes overrun with Daedra... so much so that Merchants hide, shops close, towns go on lockdown.

A zone ignored would just eventually shut down.

Exactly. I think it would be a blast. It could totally catch people off guard randomly porting into places only to find the Daedra have taken over the area and shops have closed down until it's safe for them again.

The problem with this idea is that it would be effectively impossible to organize an effort to re-take the zone, outside of a concerted effort from a large guild. I mean, you could go recruiting through all of your other alliance zones, but what are the odds that you'd be able to get enough people to do anything about it? You sure wouldn't be able to group with enough people to do it.

Also, what if this happens to Glenumbra or Auridon or Stonefalls? Brand new players who just completed the escape from the Wailing Prison walk out of the house (or boat) where they wake up, and are immediately slaughtered by hordes of Daedra...

If the main cities of the zones were able to hold the Daedra back, on the other hand, it may be workable. That way, people porting into the city would have a safe place to organize from. People coming into the zone at other wayshrines might get slaughtered and/or see what was happening and go to the city. You'd be able to organize a recapture of the zone using /zone chat.

They could update these so they are only for the higher level areas. So when someone starts out, they get to experience the normal Dolman and stop the anchors. Then as they progress to higher levels, they get more difficult and into high Vet areas where the Daedra would roam out from the Dolman. Not all of the Daedra would be roamers as well, only a certain number would be out roaming around.

That way the town wouldn't have more than 10-20 that could be cleared out by 5-10 players. The Daedra would roam into town, the people would flee into their homes and the guards would come keep the Daedra at bay until a player came along to kill them just like some of the existing city quests. Then when the town was cleared of Daedra, shops would open back up as normal. They could base achievements off saving towns as well.

Once the town was saved, we'd still have plenty of Daedra to go take care of at the Anchor as well.

Think of each anchor spawning 50-200 Daedra to fight. For arguments sake lets say 100 Daedra are summoned at an anchor, 80 of which are spread into groups of 20 and sent in four different directions. The 20 that stay at the anchor are the toughest of the group and spawned at 5 Daedra per wave. They would not spawn another wave until those 5 were killed. That way you aren't trying to fend off 100 daedra at one spot. These 5 Daedra could easily kill 1 player with all of them attacking it which is why it would require a group effort to take them down. Once you've killed the 20 at the anchor then it can be closed for x number of minutes/hours.

You only need to kill the Daedra at the anchor to close it. You could then go daedra hunting for those that left the anchor and take care of those as well. If you don't want to, someone else can do. Eventually they would have to be dealt with as they could shut down a town.

They could create new armor/weapon sets off these also. Daedric Hunter that could be crafted or dropped.

Molag Bal should be scheming about how to retry to take over Tamriel. How better to do so that to start with the existing anchors. He can summon endless Daedra to do his bidding, it's about time we start to see it

AlnilamE wrote: »

Dark Anchors spawn by proximity, though. So them spawning when no one is around doesn't really happen in the game right now.

I wonder about that. I see Dolmens coming up at a distance, I ride over and all I usually see are Cultists having a BBQ. Although lately, I tend see someone else at the Dolmens, but that could be more a population factor than anything else.

Nestor wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

Dark Anchors spawn by proximity, though. So them spawning when no one is around doesn't really happen in the game right now.

I wonder about that. I see Dolmens coming up at a distance, I ride over and all I usually see are Cultists having a BBQ. Although lately, I tend see someone else at the Dolmens, but that could be more a population factor than anything else.

Many times players will set them off simply by running past and they remain up after the player runs off.