I like Elryn's idea of weighted timing. It's not like I really participate, but I'd like to know everyone gets a chance. At the same time I do understand that there are more American's playing this game. So, 1/4, 1/5, whatever, just mix up the timing.

Or have it on a player triggered timing. ie once 5000 (or any number) surges total from astral nodes occured, there'll be a wildnodes game!

Oh I LOVE that idea it adds so much more roleplay justification to the whole wildnodes thing!

I think that's a great idea...

You are such a liar. Everyone knows that all IRE games are populated by 98% australians, 1% americans and 1% everyone else.

Damnit that's a national secret! Bloody Adelaidians.

I LOVE this idea! It allows everyone to have some control over when wildnodes will happen, and we get to be personally involved in the setup for it.

The problem, of course, is that it inspires people to go up and drain tons, flooding all of the spheres (other than their own) constantly with linked mobs.

I was thinking slightly the other way... suppose you won every node for every minute and had a beautiful score... it would be worth your while to quickly drain every node and keep them permanently devoid. The number of charges a node regains depends on the number already within the node - keeping all the nodes at 0 would therefore greatly increase the amount of time before the next nodes... but it would also be prohibitively labour intensive, and insanity would make it difficult to keep up.

Only when weighted by ego.

Would it be appropriate to post this in the "plots" newsboard IG? Awesome idea. Ofcourse the number would be much higher, so that it only happens bout once per RL week.

*edit I did some calculations, You could have a wild nodes event every 1.5 million power generated by the nodes collectivly. If thats not realistic, then make it every 150,000 power generated.

I know it's a mite off topic, but 85 minutes worth of playing today, and I'm -STILL- highly neurotic. Urgh.

Isn't Aiakon by nature highly neurotic?

It was worse than usual. You should've seen him enchanting a pair of statues for me.

I kinda like the idea of the wild nodes being triggered by astral links. It might just make Astral be something more than it is right now. It might also re-raise the questions of the safety of astral linking which used to run around the Serenwilde at the very least. I'm not sure what number I'd want, but I think it could be a good idea.

That said, it'd be likely that astral nodes would be drained dramatically again (much as they were before insanity). Perhaps not the parasites, but the others. Could we possibly think about an occasional random 'surge' of energy which recharges the nodes partway? Just a thought of a possible solution to a potential problem, not something that exists.