[HallygukRZ]

Dear community of p99

We would like to clarify our decision on why we as a guild decided to raid PoSky on last Thursday. In the process, we would like to also address some of the accusations thrown our way.

First of all, understand that on this matter, all of the Europa council speaks as one, so attacks against individual officers are moot. Also, we coordinate our way forward with our memberbase so understand that this was a guild decision. It is much to our regret that things have come to this as we consider ourselves to be good people with a code of conduct we always to stick to - no matter how dirty things can get on p99.

As most of our members live in the European timezone our prime raid time starts at 19:00 CET (13:00 EST). We cannot start earlier, because we are a casual guild, all of our members have a life, with jobs and families. With repops in Sky at 8 hours for the lower isles, you do the math: An "AM" slot is no option for us, if the demand from the guild following us is that they have repops at their prime time.

As for the actual situation: Europa had exactly one slot in sky, for isles 1-5, on a 14-day basis, sharing them with Divinity. However, we progressed over the last months and no one was willing to share Sky on a bi-weekly basis with us. Proof? Sky rotation thread here. Although this is the single occassion where we would have time zone advantage, we delayed the decision for 1-2 months to try and find an agreement within the guilds on P99.

We have approached BDA on the matter, and no, we did not state we WILL take their day, we tried to explain to them that we COULD do it, and that we were nevertheless trying to find an agreement with them. The reaction was a) the "generous" offer to raid early enough so they are not affected, and when we declined that, b) the pre-emptive clearing of the lower isles with an early task force to make sure Europa could not get a shot at mobs. This while we didn't even plan to go up there on that day.

After some more weeks here on the sky rotation thread without results, we had a long internal discussion how to proceed. We concluded that our only option to raid upper isles is to do it on a day of our choice, and that informing anyone of a planned raid would most likely lead to the same destructive approach that BDA is doing on fridays. That is why we did not contact Taken beforehand.

Finally, the day we chose has nothing to do with the guild who is on the rotation on that day, it is simply the day that suits us best. With the one exception that we did not want to interfere with Divinity because they have been the only guild that was kind enough to let us have a shot at Sky (within our time limitations).

Please understand that the refusal of sharing any acceptable raid time with Europa (by all guilds on the rotation) has left us with the option of doing Sky when we want to, or skipping Sky content. Ask yourself: What would you have done in our situation?

Personal insults, threats, attempts at sabotage or intimidation are not getting anyone anywhere. Are we sorry? We are genuinely sorry things came to this, but we had no other choice. Will we apologize? No, because we did everything we could to sort this out peacefully but no one cared. Will we negotiate? Absolutely.

We will gladly accept a 14 day rotation for PoSky.

Signed by the <Europa> officers
Asterid, Dagorn, Hallyguk, Powtle, Sebekkha and Sherrypie.