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Originally Posted by SCB
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This is the current server situation. If you think batphoning is time-intensive, you're crazy. The average hardcore EQ raider doesn't raid for 10 hours solid like in the old days. It's "CT POP" text message, 20 minutes to assemble/pull, 2 minute kill, collect pixels, log.
Feel the excitement.
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Exactly, and any other guilds are free to compete along those lines. I totally agree with you and to me, it makes posts like Falkun's a page back where he seems to claim that TMO is filled with unemployed losers seem that much more ridiculous. The competition is to get organized to the point where you can batphone and drop a mob before anybody else.
You talk about competition, and the only guild to TRY to compete with TMO is FE a couple months ago, and honestly, it looked like both FE and TMO were having good fun competing. No other guilds have even tried or have long ago 'given up as to not waste their members' time'.
I never said batphoning itself was time intensive. Everything it takes to get there is time intensive. Having multiple 60 alts logged and ready in multiple locations is time intensive. Having a guild of fully motivated players ready to batphone 24/7 is time consuming. Having a guild that doesn't fall apart or let infighting/drama/corruption affect them is time consuming.
So how are raid tokens exciting exactly? Not sure what can match the excitement of being a guild like FE stealing Traks from TMO, or being TMO finally getting their first trak kills. The thing is, any guild can do that... they just don't have the fortitude for it. That's the competition and it always has been.
Not sure what the point would be if every guild just gets to kill every raid mob each week. We'll all be BiS in no time and who even cares at that point? I mean any guild can go to some other EMU and already do this. The main point I am trying to make, is if every person in every guild is able to easily suit up BiS in a few months of raiding, where's the motivation? At least here, there is super difficult to obtain end gear and the glory of killing gods that is more sought after than what any item or raid mob in any other live MMO can offer today.