Last Sunday, the EU server was down from reset until around 16 UTC. Hours of Fame Rush wasted. Annoying, but whatever, shit happens.
Now it’s Sunday again, Fame Rush is still going on, and guess what? Server is down. Again.

But here’s what really pissed me off.

About an hour before today’s reset, I was transporting loot from my hideout back to the city. Had some expensive gear on me and a decent amount of loot. Roughly 30m silver in total.
I zoned out of my hideout and suddenly got a black screen. Nothing. Tried relogging, still black screen. Kept trying for about 20 minutes until I finally managed to get back in.
And there I was. Dead. Everything gone.

Now before someone says “30m is nothing” or “welcome to Albion”, I get it. Some veterans probably make that in a day. But for me, 30m is a decent chunk of my silver.
And honestly, even if I had lost 100k, I’d be just as pissed off about the principle.

I play a full-loot PvP game. I accept the risk of losing my gear to other players. I DON’T accept losing it because the game won’t even let me play.

If someone catches me transporting and kills me, fair play. That’s Albion. But how the hell am I supposed to defend myself when I’m staring at a black screen for 20 minutes?

And what makes this even more frustrating is that I actually spend real money on this game. I pay for Premium, occasionally buy skins, sometimes buy gold. I’m happy to support a game I enjoy.

But what exactly are we paying for when servers keep going down during limited-time events and players can lose hours of progress without even having a chance to fight back?

I’m not expecting servers to have 100% uptime. That’s unrealistic. But I do expect SBI to take some responsibility when things go wrong on their end.

Extend Fame Rush to make up for the downtime. And if players lose gear because of confirmed technical issues, there should at least be a proper way to get those losses reviewed and reimbursed.

Losing 30m because I made a stupid decision? Fine. Losing 30m because I couldn’t get past a loading screen? Not fine.

Am I being unreasonable here? Has anyone else lost expensive gear or loot because of black screens or disconnects lately?
Because I’m genuinely curious how many players have experienced this and just accepted the los

I was wondering what you guys think is the strongest PVE weapon in the game for melting mobs fast. This post doesn’t care about PvP. Strictly PvE.

Especially melting camps etc.

The reason im asking is because i want to level all my plate armors most efficiently. For that i need a lot of dmg.

Yes I know I could do faction warfare etc or whatever.

But here I want to focus purely on solo PvE.

For context: I have maxed out spec in Swords,Axes and shadowcaller.

This doesn’t mean I only need suggestions in those specific weapon trees. It’s just to say that I’m not totally new.

The title says it all.

I was wondering what your current experiences are regarding soloing duo/trio depths. I never really played depths a lot. I recently started dipping my toes in it and I quite like it actually. I can’t compare how it was before or how it is now on the long-term.

I bet there are people out there who could give an estimate on avg fame/hour doing this as a solo player?

Thanks!

I want to make the central request completely clear:

Restore the off-peak spawn rates, upgrade rates, event frequency, and content value. At minimum, revert them to their pre–Radiant Wilds Patch 4 levels. Then redesign Dynamic Spawn Rates so peak hours scale upward from a healthy baseline instead of pushing off-hours below it.

I am not asking only for more statistics or a better explanation. The current direction itself needs to be reversed.

I work rotating shifts and pay for Premium. I cannot arrange my job around Albion’s server prime time. When I log in outside peak hours, I should still find a living, playable world—not fewer resources, fewer upgraded mobs and chests, longer dungeon spawn times, fewer events, and longer periods spent searching for something to do.

Radiant Wilds Patch 4 expanded Dynamic Spawn Rates across more systems and made the scaling “slightly more aggressive”:

https://forum.albiononline.com/index.php/Thread/223642-Testserver-Patchnotes-Radiant-Wilds-Patch-4/

That expansion affects:

• Open-world dungeon upgrades and events
• Open-world boss areas
• Boss Lair Maps
• Wisps and Crystal Creatures
• Randomized Dungeons
• Roads of Avalon chests and dungeon spawns

This comes on top of the existing Dynamic Spawn system affecting resources, mobs, and treasures.

When SBI introduced this system in 2024, it said there would be limits to ensure low-activity periods did not offer “too little”:

https://forum.albiononline.com/index.php/Thread/200112-22-July-2024-Paths-to-Glory-Update/

For many off-peak players, it now feels like that limit is either far too low or no longer doing its job.

Peak-hour support should not require an off-peak penalty

I understand why peak hours require additional content. More players need more objectives, mobs, resources, and dungeons.

But there is no reason that extra peak-hour capacity must come from making off-hours worse.

The sensible model is:

Healthy permanent baseline + additional peak-hour spawns

The current model feels like:

Reduced off-peak game + restoration or bonuses during prime time

Those are not the same thing.

Off-peak players are not an economic problem to be suppressed. We are part of the active playerbase. We gather, fight, transport, craft, buy Premium, participate in the market, and keep the world populated outside its busiest few hours.

Reducing content is worse than balancing rewards

If SBI believes off-peak players earn too much because there is less competition, then balance the value per objective where necessary.

Do not solve it by making objectives disappear.

An objective with moderately adjusted rewards still creates gameplay, exploration, PvP encounters, and reasons to remain online. An objective that does not spawn creates nothing except empty travel time.

The same applies to resources. A player should not repeatedly travel through nearly empty zones simply because their available playtime does not match the server’s preferred schedule.

This can create a self-reinforcing decline

Dynamic downscaling risks creating this loop:

Fewer players online → fewer resources and objectives → worse experience → players log off → even fewer players online

That is especially dangerous for players with rotating shifts, players in less represented time zones, solo players, and small groups that cannot simply reorganize around prime-time guild schedules.

A system intended to follow population can end up actively reducing that population.

Premium makes this harder to accept

Premium is time-limited and continues expiring 24 hours a day.

I am not claiming SBI has switched off the displayed Premium percentages. The problem is the practical value of those percentages.

A gathering bonus cannot compensate for resources that are not available. A loot bonus cannot compensate for objectives or upgraded chests that rarely appear. A progression bonus cannot compensate for time spent searching for content instead of playing it.

Players buying Premium should not receive a substantially worse opportunity to use those paid benefits because their work schedule forces them to play outside prime time.

SBI’s Terms may allow broad balance changes. That does not make every balance decision fair, healthy, or acceptable to paying customers. “We are allowed to change it” is not an answer to whether it should be changed back.

What SBI should do

1. Immediately restore off-peak Dynamic Spawn rates to at least their pre-Patch 4 levels.
2. Restore a meaningful fixed baseline for resources, mobs, treasures, dungeons, chests, bosses, wisps, and other affected objectives.
3. Make future Dynamic Spawn scaling peak-positive: add capacity when population rises without cutting the baseline when population falls.
4. If economic output genuinely needs adjustment, change reward value before removing playable activities from the world.
5. Publish the minimum off-peak baseline and the measurements used to determine whether the game still offers enough content.
6. Monitor off-peak session length, returning players, content found per hour, and time spent searching, not only total loot or resources per online player.

This is not a request to make off-peak farming better than peak-hour gameplay. It is a request to stop making normal gameplay materially worse because of the clock.

If you are affected, reply with your server, usual UTC playtime, activity, and what changed after Patch 4. Both resource gathering and the newly affected PvE activities matter.

SBI: please restore the off-peak rates and redesign Dynamic Spawn Rates around a permanent healthy baseline. Peak players need additional content, but off-peak players should not have content taken away to provide it.