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• songster · 10/29/07, 2:45 PM

I think it would be far too difficult to allow a level 70 to zone into Deadmines, and then somehow try and scale all their gear and abilities to an appropriate level.

Rather, it strikes me that the simpler solution is to let you zone back in as a level 20.

That is, you should be able to save "snapshots" of your character. Preferably at will, but with a default setting that takes a snapshot every 5 levels, as soon as you ding. On the loading screen, you can either log in to your character as normal or right click and select "Log on to snapshot". If you log on as one of your snapshots, you have exactly the skills, talents and gear that you had the moment the snapshot was taken - i.e. the moment you dinged 20 (or 25, or 30, or 35...). You zone in wherever your hearth was set at the time.

Snapshots cannot level up or gain items - every time you log onto them they are exactly the same, and any changes to your XP, gold, items etc. disappear when you log out. Of course, you would have to be forbidden to trade items or use the AH when in "snapshot mode", to prevent people repeatedly logging on as a snapshot, trading all their gear away and then repeating the process. It looks as though standard cross-server rules should work (i.e. you can trade conjured items but nothing else).

It means you can effectively drop down in level and quest with friends without having to level up another alt. And, crucially, without having that alt either outlevel them or get left behind. If you have a level 70, then you also have access to a level 65, a level 60, a level 55, and so on.

This could also provide a way to separate out twinks in battlegrounds. Twink yourself up the perfect character, and then save a snapshot. No more "accidental" levelling up. Snapshots are separated from normal players in battlegrounds, and matched against other snapshots where possible. At that point they could even introduce minor experience gain from PvP, to make sure that all twinks *are* snapshots, and that people don't try to cheat the system and force a twink-vs-normal matchup.

10/29/07, 2:45 PM	#40 (permalink)
• songster Chief Passenger Schizzle Gnome Rogue <Odds and Ends> Earthen Ring (EU)	I think it would be far too difficult to allow a level 70 to zone into Deadmines, and then somehow try and scale all their gear and abilities to an appropriate level. Rather, it strikes me that the simpler solution is to let you zone back in as a level 20. That is, you should be able to save "snapshots" of your character. Preferably at will, but with a default setting that takes a snapshot every 5 levels, as soon as you ding. On the loading screen, you can either log in to your character as normal or right click and select "Log on to snapshot". If you log on as one of your snapshots, you have exactly the skills, talents and gear that you had the moment the snapshot was taken - i.e. the moment you dinged 20 (or 25, or 30, or 35...). You zone in wherever your hearth was set at the time. Snapshots cannot level up or gain items - every time you log onto them they are exactly the same, and any changes to your XP, gold, items etc. disappear when you log out. Of course, you would have to be forbidden to trade items or use the AH when in "snapshot mode", to prevent people repeatedly logging on as a snapshot, trading all their gear away and then repeating the process. It looks as though standard cross-server rules should work (i.e. you can trade conjured items but nothing else). It means you can effectively drop down in level and quest with friends without having to level up another alt. And, crucially, without having that alt either outlevel them or get left behind. If you have a level 70, then you also have access to a level 65, a level 60, a level 55, and so on. This could also provide a way to separate out twinks in battlegrounds. Twink yourself up the perfect character, and then save a snapshot. No more "accidental" levelling up. Snapshots are separated from normal players in battlegrounds, and matched against other snapshots where possible. At that point they could even introduce minor experience gain from PvP, to make sure that all twinks are snapshots, and that people don't try to cheat the system and force a twink-vs-normal matchup.