I do like this idea, but I think a few of the issues were brought up were valid ones. I understand we are working on the idea and would like to throw in my 2 cents.
Simplicity is an issue with me also. First off, you need to have witnesses from another guild or unbiased group? Then you need to have a set rotation on the FG's. I'm sure Divinity or whoever will want to try the FG's asap just in case they pull off something. Then there is connection issues. Having a race would be a great idea but this server isn't completely stable (which is understandable since no one is paying shit). So if someone disconnects or maybe the server kicks a bunch of people to login or char select? How would we set these rules up? Who knows, maybe IB has their cleric get kicked and they wipe. That would give advantages to the rest of us time wise, but they would end up arguing that obviously it wasn't their fault...
This also eliminates FG's for lesser guilds who might want to get up a few groups and take them. Let's say in a month or so we have at least 5 guilds that want to attempt the timed trial? That's 40 hours where the FG's are completely camped, considering people will still do this in the off hours. And people will want to practice more. This makes the FG's the most important area in the game.
You also have to set up people to monitor which players go which attempt... To allow people to not use their top DPS consecutively someone else would have to monitor them. Now my guild would be fair for the sake of gaming, but since we are already having all these issues with raiding fairness I could see a few people trying to take advantage of this system.
Just like you guys said, any system can be exploited.
Now I really do like this idea, it does allow for the PVE competitiveness that we all love. And it allows for anyone to attempt if they want. Of course this system does reward better equip. So the already high lvl raiding guilds will have a complete advantage over any up and coming guild. No matter how skillful a group is, if their main tank has 25% less health and their main healer has 25% less mana... they probably won't be able to win a timed trial unless something bad happens to the top guilds.
Now I do think as reasonable people we could figure out a way to make this system work
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