Last night I thought I’d put a few hours in, something I haven’t been able to do a lot of lately. I needed some Oortstone to keep my gates running, so I decided to hove over to Lamblis for some easy hunting and pick up some Waxy Earthyams because I can never have enough wax.
The gate opened, and the stats indicated a world population of 1. I was going to have the entire world pretty much to myself. I was going to solo a whole planet.
So, what happens when you’re the first person to walk across a region boundary on a world that no one has touched for a long time? Boom. Boom boom. BOOM!!! It was like two lovers who had been apart for months. Fireworks. Meteors everywhere, just like [INSERT NATIONAL HOLIDAY HERE].
At one point I was handling two meters that fell within seconds of each other (and within shooting distance of each other) when a third one fell just out of range. Sweet. My discovery was that if you have more than one active meterite all spawns from all gates belong to the first one to hit until its finished, then the second, and so on. The creatures match the gates they come through, so if a level 1 hist first followed by a level 2, you will get level 1 and level 2 spawns respectively, but all kills will count toward the first meter until it’s done, then they start counting towards the second.
Anyway, I crossed many regions and battled a lot of meteors and came away with plenty of Oortstone given they were all level 1 or 2. Then a goat headbutts me into lava out of the blue, nowhere near a meteor. It was a shallow lava patch, I jumped out and survived (!) only to be headbutted by the same goat moments later and killed. So it goes.
Anyways, I though I’d just share. The joys of low player counts.
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