Originally Posted by Rogean (Post 1226924)

Raid Scene
It continues to be an aggravating realization among CSR staff that 10% of the server population causes 90% of the problems. We are all for competition, but it needs to be fair competition. We are also all here for the same thing, to experience classic Everquest. The same guild monopolizing raid content for 2 years that they might not even need anymore is ridiculous, just to block other guilds from the chance of gearing up to take on the same end game content.

I was thinking to myself the other day and I came to ask myself.. Are we providing this server to give people the arena to compete to such bitter extremes that it has resorted to taking every absolute measure to be victorious, or are we here to provide a classic Everquest experience for everyone to enjoy?

A lot of you make fun of it in your own terms, but it really does come down to fighting over very old content.

Either way, we're tired of the constant bickering, the training, the ninja looting, and all the other bullshit that's going on. So here's what we're going to do.

Starting today and then evaluated when Velious is released the CSR staff will be keeping track of how the raid guilds are treating eachother. If we do not see a significant improvement in the behavior of the raiding guilds and how they treat eachother, Velious will be released without raid content. To be clear, we want an enjoyable raid scene for everyone, not just one or two guilds. This means working together to figure out a compromise when racing for mobs, and working with smaller guilds to let them have a chance at mobs you don't absolutely need for gearing main characters.

Don't think that this means you can continue shitting on each other and just not petition, the staff will still be watching.

Originally Posted by Messianic (Post 1227859)

This is really shortsighted.

Removal of RnF creates headaches for moderators because RnF is a convenient sequester for BS most people don't care to read, and RnF spills into the other forums if it isn't allowed to happen in a designated place.

Sorry, RnF is practical and makes sense. Banning alcohol didn't prevent people from drinking themselves stupid; just guaranteed that violent criminals made money from selling it instead of honest people.

Originally Posted by Messianic (Post 1227859)

This is really shortsighted.

Removal of RnF creates headaches for moderators because RnF is a convenient sequester for BS most people don't care to read, and RnF spills into the other forums if it isn't allowed to happen in a designated place.

Sorry, RnF is practical and makes sense. Banning alcohol didn't prevent people from drinking themselves stupid; just guaranteed that violent criminals made money from selling it instead of honest people.

Originally Posted by Ravager (Post 1227871)

RnF has turned into an excuse to not moderate conversations and flaming a thread has become a tactic to sweep worthwhile conversations under the rug to maintain the status quo.

Originally Posted by Ravager (Post 1227871)

RnF has turned into an excuse to not moderate conversations and flaming a thread has become a tactic to sweep worthwhile conversations under the rug to maintain the status quo.

Originally Posted by Messianic (Post 1227880)

Think of RnF as a dumpster. Why do you give a damn if there are feces in the dumpster instead of normal garbage?