Instance Matching System Bonus Removal

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AvalonBright on 04/13/2012, 10:17 PM - view
Minea on 04/13/2012, 05:58 PM
Hello, TERA fans!

There have been a lot of discussions on the Instance Matching system’s bonuses and we have been listening to your feedback closely. In response to our community’s concern, we have great news to share with you today!

We are currently working on TERA’s launch build so that it will not provide the additional bonuses when using the Instance Matching system. However, we may elect to include bonuses in the future to encourage lower level characters group more. The Instance Matching system will continue to utilize cross-server search to assist players in finding others for instance dungeons.

We will have the adjusted Instance Matching System at launch on 5/1. Thank you for sharing your feedback and thoughts with us!


...This is a terrible idea. The whole point of a dungeon finder is to provide rewards/etc. Just look at Rift or WoW or anything else that includes it. Really lame, guys. Really, really lame.


The point of a Dungeon finder is to help people with little time to find a group to run a dungeon. Not give you special items for using it.
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So.... En Masse caved to a minority of whiny forum children who never even played the game with the mechanics in place, who were qqing based only on their lopsizded and largely incorrect and unfounded speculation.

Talk about setting a bad precedent.
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What a pleasant surprise :)
SulaMoon Profile Options #84

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Nice one Eme, thumbs up!

And throw out the lower lvl dungeons extra rewards while you're pondering, please.
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~Bows~
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thecyris on 04/13/2012, 10:28 PM - view
So.... En Masse caved to a minority of whiny forum children who never even played the game with the mechanics in place, who were qqing based only on their lopsizded and largely incorrect and unfounded speculation.

Talk about setting a bad precedent.


Yeah the minority card is getting old.

Enough with the vacal majority, minority BS.

You forget, before they announced it, it was people who were FOR the LFD who made all the posts about it.

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Well, if EME is actualy trying to pick out feedback here, among the poor content of this topic, I will first say that I am fine with the bonuses being gone. I love having a dungeon que system that works, because I like to play in groups. I don't care nor want some easy bonuses for something like that.

Secondly, as I said, the dungeon finder is one of my favorite coming features of TERA. I have no problem with it being cross server, and I fully believe that it will need to be that way after the first month anyway, as your server's population spreads out. I would rather wait in a 20 minute cross-server que, than wait in a 60 minute same server que.

But can I make a suggestion? Make the Dungeon finder try to match up people from the same server first, and then fill out any remaining spots with people from other servers.

This way, in theory when there are a ton of people in the 20-25 range (first dungeon), then it will be pretty much all same-server grouping anyway, and as time goes on and the need for cross-server matching becomes more needed, it will just kick in automatically.
Covertghost Profile Options #88

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Simple way to solve this problem: Give the bonus/present if you run the instance on same server, don't if you LFD it. Incentive should be for people to keep their server kicking.
Sickatriz Profile Options #89

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This sounds like a good compromise.

Just please don't make knee-jerk development decisions due to the outcries of the vocal minority, of which there will be plenty.
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I'm pleasantly surprised that EME listened for once.