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Originally Posted by Millburn
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Make raid gear lore, argument solved.
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Perversely, this also incentivizes large zerg guilds, since the best way around this is to simply have more players on the roster to spread the banked gear around. Very easy to keep track of who is holding what with a simple Google spreadsheet.
The bottom line is that regardless of the ruleset, zergs tend to emerge in EQ. It's inevitable in a game where numbers are the number one factor in both PvE and PvP. The best way to weaken zergs is with hardcoded teams, which artificially limit the recruitment pool for any single guild, and ensure strong competition from guilds on rival teams.
Teams with PvP also directly incentivizes stronger guilds to help weaker guilds acquire gear, since they will rely on them as allies in PvP battles. With regular no drop planar gear, this results in smaller guilds piggybacking on large guild raids to pick up gear rots. With droppable planar gear, the dominant guild will hoard almost all of it in reserve. The only way to get some? Join the zerg yourself, and stay there.