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Originally Posted by Sirken
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if guilds were split up, yes people would be very butthurt for a few weeks and QQ their faces off, sure. BUT the guilds will just have them reroll and PL them back to 60 in that time. and so the problem with hardcoding is resolved in a few weeks, but the problems associated with softcoding will stay with the server and last forever.
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Sirken & Staff,
It isn't just guilds you have to consider, friends and family will be split apart. I started on R99 in March, and have a 58 DE chanter & 47 human monk. My wife has a 53 Barb shm & 55 WE druid. My RL friend Brrem has a 49 peck druid & 45 iksar Necro. My RL friend Jeyct has a 60 iksar monk (just hit 60 yesterday; grats again dude!) & a 20 something iksar necro, and his GF has 20 something gnome wizzy.
If teams are hardcoded and no race / alignment change is allowed, we will be split up, period. If teams are softcoded, then we get to watch our friends occasionally die in PvP with no ability to help, we can only join cross teaming guilds, and really none of the issues that would prompt a switch from FFA to a teams rule set would be resolved. I played on VZ for years, and once cross teaming became rampant, I always regretted not starting on RZ.
Long story short, we will all be split up and do not have the resources (time, plat, gear) to just PL each other and be back to where we currently are in a few weeks if we rerolled. While I support the hardcoded teams rule set, I urge the staff to consider a one time race change, alignment change, or ability to select a team for all R99 players if R99 is merged with T99. Please don't make us regret being a part of P99, it has been a lot of fun and we want to continue playing, especially together.
~Thanks for your time, hard work, and soliciting input from the community.
P.S. I favor keeping the FFA rule set, but since it looks like T99 is coming, my efforts are now being redirected at optimizing the situation, at least for me and my friends n' family.