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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hatchling Dragon" data-source="post: 2434325" data-attributes="member: 580">Heh, and in case anyone's still confused by the explanation I'll give the FRP-friendly version that popped into my head as I read the first post of "Still don't get it".Think Pocket Dimentions.  Every time you go to an Instanced dungoeon/boss/whatever you're acutaly getting your own private little copy of said place/NPCs that exsist as until the right conditions are met.  Usualy that's just leaving the site or completing the quest.One thing I'd seen in City of Heroes' use of Instances was putting a timer on an instance, usualy described as a bomb timer.  You'd therefore have to find all the bombs before they 'went off' or you were kicked out of the Instance and either re-try or just fail.  It's been a while, I forget which they used, mabye both depending on the setting.The only real down-side to it is that you can't do one of my favorite passtimes, going to the lower level things that would not warrent an Instance (ie: boss room of a dungeon, ect) and sit there with a 'support class' character, and just help the inevitable n00b groups that stumble into mroe than they were bargaining for thier first time through.  But the benifits greatly outweigh the down-sides of Instancing.  It's here to stay, and I'm all for it.I'm pretty sure that The Matrix Online uses Istancing as well.</blockquote>