It'd be cool to see a "Hot" Zone type implementation of some kind.
Either Double for that day but only that zone or special hot zone drop.
Doesn't necessarily have to be a custom zone, but would be a cool incentive to go to different zones.

Judgment should never be done in a vacuum. Taking into account what they have/haven't done leading up to the event isn't a shrug of indifference; it's determining if this is behavior is a pattern or a one off. It's determining if this was a single bad judgment call or a constant goal of skirting the system.  Yes; in a MMO with HUNDREDs of THOUSANDs of players, you can be more strict because there's not enough time or capability to review the actions of the individual on this basis; but we are not even hundreds of players on this server... we're like maybe 50 people total? It's worth it to take the time and actually take action based on who they are, not JUST what they've done.

A repeat offender is not treated with the same judgment as a first time offender. A penitent individual who's shown a history of giving and helpfulness to the community should not be judged the same as someone who's given nothing to the community and has only sought to self-serve and constantly seek to exploit. Yes, we should try to hold people to the same standards when we cannot judge their character, but in this instance we CAN judge their character; so why are we shirking that responsibility?

I am not advocating for a shoulder shrug, but obviously taking into account who they are as a player and member of the community is necessary. To not do so would be foolish and callous.

Arkain, Draca, and Icestriker are all well known on the server for always being helpful. Ignoring this fact is not helpful. I don't know who else was involved as they didn't announce themselves here, but speaking from my experience with these 3 that makes me feel that I really don't have an issue. As far as I knew, all three of them didn't really benefit from "extra" farming, they were all maxed and even had MULTIPLE warriors maxed. Was it wrong? Yes, but as far as I know they caused no harm to other players. And it's far more likely they'd use those additional resources to help others (as is there track record BEFORE the incident, I would imagine that all this scrutiny would only cause them to be even more helpful). This isn't a competitive server really, I mean it kinda is with the leader board, but I don't think it's accurate nor does anyone care. There's no IRL monetary gain for them. This is a game, and even more than that, it's a splinter of a game (albeit imo better than the original). This was a self-serving exploit, no competitive advantage was gained. So here's my thoughts:

1.) Ban is not an option, even with the rules, I think it'd be silly to Ban 3 or more of the most influential and helpful members of this server.
2.) Personalized rollback - this is a possibility, it makes more work for Akka, but it does seem to be the best way
3.) Ban from next event - This may be a possibility, but again, with them being as influential and helpful to the server, this may be more of a punishment to the server.

Here's my idea (Something more subjective and less objective):

4.)  They are required to do "Community Service" hours, where on their honor ALL loot and time spent on the server for X * 8 hours (X being # of times Magorian was exploited) is used to serve others, ie; helping kill corals in Abyss, OC pulls, UW farming, etc.
This could be on their honor system, but we can even make it MORE categorical by having a thread for each offender and having people post in there how many hours they were helped until the total required "Community Service" is reached.

They did something wrong, but they didn't commit a crime, harm the server or get an UNFAIR competitive advantage (again, there's no advantage to be gained when there's no competition). They got greedy and thought they found a loot piñata. Look at it for what it is, there's no need to white knight this or try and look at it purely objectively. These aren't rando's here to harm the community and server, they are LARGE parts of this community and server.

turned in HW blade and 2.5 book and nada... bug or I do something wrong with ranger?

I like this idea; but you'd need to be able to set the speed... the carpet is AWESOME-fast, but scaling would be better

This server is a grind. Making things less of a grind so you can then proceed to the next grind dosent make sense.

I think grind vs. getting screwed by RNG is my main point here, not to take away the grind, but to curve it.

ie; on average, you have a 1 in 10 chance of getting 'x', so for most people that's 10 times doing the thing and getting 'x', but that means there's cases where someone will do it 100 times and not get 'x', the probability is very low, but it's still there. There's also the case where someone does it once and gets 'x' on the first try. All I'm suggesting is adding a curve to that, so the person doing it 100 times isn't "punished" so severely.

This is also taking an existing implement that's already being used and simply expanding it to other zones.

PoDragons was STILL a grind, but it was a lot less frustrating when I was able to have Dragon armor drop that was good for any class, or trade in junk to get the piece I needed. It still took a LONG time to get all the pieces, but it curved the drop rate.

[#1. Add in a similar mechanic to Tiers 1-6ish as PoDragons, and possibly a boss-select token for Abyss that's super rare]

Hello!

Just as a preface: These are just thoughts, not complaints. I've really enjoyed playing here and just thinking of things that could make it better!

I'm pretty new to EZ Server and I have really appreciated the awesome community and help everyone has been so willing to offer. It's been pretty amazing actually.

As I've been playing it's pretty intense to get past some of the lower levels of the server.

I've enjoyed the challenge of some areas, but others just seem SUPER grindy, especially with randomization.

I loved PoDragons being able to turn in junk to get a proper piece when it sometimes seems like the SAME slot keeps dropping for the wrong class.

I would also love a "Farm Zone", it seemed like there used to be one, but it's now gone? Proving Grounds? I don't know why that disappeared, but it'd be great to have a zone where we could consistently farm essences a little easier, would be cool to have a drop rate scale with difficulty or something like that? Hail a mob and select a Tier difficulty, all essences up to X drop, and drop rate just increases after X with difficulty, makes it better for top tier peeps to farm, etc. I personally loved farming in Arthicrex, because of the giant pulls I was able to get going.

This 4th of July was my first event and it was AWESOME. I played TOO much though in that short time; I would love to have smaller or zone specific events more regularly. Like turn on the event for a specific zone (Hot Zones style) that rotates every weekend or weekly or whatever.

So, QoL Thoughts:

#1. Add in a similar mechanic to Tiers 1-6ish as PoDragons, and possibly a boss-select token for Abyss that's super rare
            1a. Basically, just allowing a little curve on the randomization, so that we don't spend 90% of our time on that ONE LAST drop/boss

#2. Add back in? a farm zone, or a new version of it. Possibly scaling to allow more essence drops or drop rates for higher tier difficulty.
            2a. Selectable tier difficulty up to Tier X, to help people get farm a little easier on the lower tiers.

#3. Weekend/weekly events
            3b. Rotating by zone or more frequently but just for a couple hours or something


I'm no where near the endgame, so other people there may want to weigh in. I've really enjoyed playing on this server and want to express my gratitude for the players and Akkadius for keeping this place alive

These are ONLY suggestions and thoughts, I realize this may take more time from Akkadius, but hopefully there's either someone that could help him (I'm happy to volunteer, but I'm still super new to the server). I'm a Software Engineer, (but hate DevOps) so if you need scripts written to help facilitate, I'd be happy to help.

-Kinetix aka Lucki

My company got acquired last year, and it can be scary.
I'm not in management, so I didn't really get impacted. But about 50% of the mid-upper management got replaced.
Even though I was "safe" it does add to stress.

I've been working from home for a year, so when COVID-19 hit, I wasn't directly affected except for my kids being home all the time.

Glad you're still around and although I'm new, I've found this is a pretty awesome community and I'm glad I get to be part of it.

I'm so impressed with the amount of effort and care that's gone into this server; it's pretty amazing. (Even if I'm in Abyss right now and kinda hate it).

Awesome!

Thanks Akkadius!

I know we had an early event due to people being at home for quarantine and it was awesome, but we missed doing anything for memorial day this year and a lot of people are still out of work for another week and a half. I was wondering if it would be at all possible to have a weekend event or something. I for one will be working long hours the rest of the summer and wont be able to get on much after this next week.

Yes please!