Honestly all those propositions are going to be failures.
1) the current state of the raiding scene is what it is. I'm not a fan of TMO but...they put efforts to get what they want. Sometimes FE get their share of it too, because they do work. of course the size of the guilds isn't classic, but that's a direct consequence of the time line that is anything but classic. That's the double edge of a free project.
2) Rotations happened on live, but they were agreements between guilds iirc (afaik). Rotation happened in VP and was broken by IB due to Amelinda being a cunt. Sad story, maybe if there hadn't been a corrupt GM things would have remained on rotation. Who knows, that's the way it happened. TMO showed more consistency and bigger numbers, they won VP over. When FE tried to enter VP we did good, but TMO had more numbers, TMO won over VP again. You can say they "put more work" , or were more "determined". It's not really the case. It's all about numbers, and about tracking relentlessly, batphoning quickly and recruiting fresh blood constantly (which when you have total control on the high end loot is not hard).
All in all, on P99 it's all about how many no lives do you have to throw in the mix. How many people are ready to sacrifice their evenings , morning, nights, tracking and poopsocking. It's dumb, but it's the way it is.
Somehow some players still show off their tracking records, when it truly is sad. But those people are rewarded the most on P99.
It's not gonna change, so I suggest you get over it and have fun what every other way you can, because otherwise the raiding scene will remain a big source of frustation (anyways, it's been 3 years of kunark god damn it!). Rogean is busy playing the jedi, Sirken smokes pot and answers a few petitions here and there. Nilbog has a good soul, but you guys gotta realize he's doing with a few persons, without getting paid, what Verant had a team of 40+ to do.
The release of Velious is also somehow touchy, due to the headache it will induce for the Staff in terms or CSR. And from the interactions they lately have with players, you can tell they really don't want to deal with that.
The only thing that was mentioned by the staff and that will change is pathing in VP as Sirken acknowledged it required patching to be decent, in order for the zone to become non trainable.
I personally believe this would be good, as having VP non trainable would allow other guilds to get in, remotivate them to compete for trakanon and spread the app/new player flow amongst other guilds. Of course TMO won't like this because it would end their hegemony, but why would they care? Oh yeah soz, that #7 alt still need that eye of xygoz
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I believe at this point raiding kunark will be so insignificant and TMO so geared, that they (might) agree to play nice in VP and actually gently compete. Who knows, maybe weed and adderal makes people gentle over time
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