too many encounters

With r22 I get drawn inro a roadside encounter every few steps. Way too much, and most of the time there isn't even anything in there, looks like encounters are shaed now, and usually dead by the time you get there. Also, far too many. Between the frequency, th lack of anything in there and the lkoad times this is very annoying. Did I mention there are too many?

 

Something does seem out of whack and in need of balancing. Twice now I've come out of one and taken maybe 3-5 steps and I'm pulled into another. I really like the concept of the random encounter, it's the load times that do get me when they are that frequent though.

 

They used to be instanced but now they are clearly not, most of the time there is nothing or just corpses, once I even saw another plyer killing things and I definitely wasn't grouped.

 

Yes, I've also noticed the much greater frequency in random encounters last night while undertaking the Grand Tour. Really annoying waste of resources (arrows, reagents) with very little worthwhile in them (already picked clean of resources)

 

Totally agree with above sentiments
I travelled from North Brightbone Woods to Ardoris last night, it took nearly 35 minutes!
Admitedly i do always collect the wood, ore etc, and the last 2 or 3 i just exited, i wasnt counting to begin with but i estimate i was pulled into 8-12 of them at least
I really like the idea of the random encounters but i do feel we need a way to avoid them if we wish to just get somewhere
Maybe a prompt comes up - Would you like to enter this random encounter Yes/No (and maybe some options in option window we can check/uncheck - Always enter random encounters, Never enter random encoutners and Always prompt for random encounters)
Or having them somehow marked on overland map (i think this was planned at one point?) so they can be avoided

 

<IMHO>
Yep, compared to R21, they're just annoying wastes of time now in R22. It'd be fine if they were worth doing, but when the creatures drop nothing and all the nodes are harvested... uh... what's the point? A useless time sink? No thanks.
Change these back to the way they were in R21, and I'll use them again. As it is now, just head for the exit, because it's not even a gimmick, it's just tedious frustration.
</IMHO>

 

Yes, I agree. The encounters in R21 were much more enjoyable than this

 

Getting drawn into other player's encounters already happened very very often in R21.
I always thought this was intended .

Anyways, happened already very often in R21 arround Soltown in Novia, the plains area where you have to kill Bandits for example.
Or also the plains area where skeletons are.
Oh also have seen other players in the area with the vendor (also plains).

With plains i mean the area with the "road" in the middle and hills left and right from it.
Not sure if you would call that area different?

Can't tell if it was in any other area, cause like i said, i thought this was intended.

 

frequency should be greatly reduced next patch

 

Being able to ALWAYS avoid them would defeat the purpose of them, no? Maybe have normal encounters with " Something catches your attention, would you like to check it out?" with the possibility to trigger either a friendly encounter ( merchant or so ) or enemies (like a dare), BUT also make "ambushes" that can't be avoided, bandits f.e.. So you would have overall reduced time, if you choose so, but not being able to completely skip that feature.

Oh and I also thought, that random ppl in there was intended. I always see other people in there. Definitely between Ardoris and Solace Bridge, rest I can't remember, if there was.
And also I definitely remember one killing skellies in that one, with that stonehenge-like structure and the mentioned skeletons.

 

As himmelweiss mentioned, being pulled into non-party random encounters has been an issue for many releases now. I too thought it was intentional, and did not think anything of it.

I don't play in Hidden Vale, so cannot speak to that area : However, I have encountered being pulled into other player's maps all along the Perennial Trail.

Almost always the "Plains" maps (but this could simply be because that is the one that appears in the highest frequency) : The Merchant Map, The Skeleton Map, The Wolves Map, The Bandit Map.


I am in a party at the time if that makes any difference, however the owner of the encounter scene is *not* my party member.

 

I'm mostly solo and it still puts me in a scene with someone else if I'm in Novia. Even the Solace Forest (Bandits) area, this happens. Though I don't recall it happening in Hidden Vale, but then again, I don't get pulled into one as much in Hidden Vale so maybe it would if it happened more frequently.

 

Ah yeah same.

 

My suggestion about random encounter is this: (assuming 10% chance to get into a random encounter)
When you is dragged into a random encounter a 2? minute cooldown is started

If you enjoy the random encounter you will likely spend 2+ minutes in it
If on the other hand you leave it as soon you can then you will still have that 'cooldown' active

When you has a active cooldown related to encounters, you should receive no random encounter

the 10% and 2 minutes is numbers to be decided

 

Perhaps the Oracle could sell a blessing to reduce the amount of random encounters?

 

Drachvald plains, here I come.........once, I figure out where you are

 

Ok i went out of Ardoris and wandered arround Soltown. Right on my first encounter it happened and i have seen 2 other players: