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Originally Posted by Rogean
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Raid Scene
It continues to be an aggravating realization among CSR staff that 10% of the server population causes 90% of the problems. We are all for competition, but it needs to be fair competition. We are also all here for the same thing, to experience classic Everquest. The same guild monopolizing raid content for 2 years that they might not even need anymore is ridiculous, just to block other guilds from the chance of gearing up to take on the same end game content.
I was thinking to myself the other day and I came to ask myself.. Are we providing this server to give people the arena to compete to such bitter extremes that it has resorted to taking every absolute measure to be victorious, or are we here to provide a classic Everquest experience for everyone to enjoy?
A lot of you make fun of it in your own terms, but it really does come down to fighting over very old content.
Either way, we're tired of the constant bickering, the training, the ninja looting, and all the other bullshit that's going on. So here's what we're going to do.
Starting today and then evaluated when Velious is released the CSR staff will be keeping track of how the raid guilds are treating eachother. If we do not see a significant improvement in the behavior of the raiding guilds and how they treat eachother, Velious will be released without raid content. To be clear, we want an enjoyable raid scene for everyone, not just one or two guilds. This means working together to figure out a compromise when racing for mobs, and working with smaller guilds to let them have a chance at mobs you don't absolutely need for gearing main characters.
Don't think that this means you can continue shitting on each other and just not petition, the staff will still be watching.
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I respect that you guys want to stay back and let the players sort things out as to how to run the raid scene here as much as possible, as that is in general preferable to some authority coming in to determine these things. But it has become clear that this server has a certain population of very anti-social people who will fight harder to deny other people loot than the other people will fight for their own loot. This is just a game after all and it doesn't really serve the server as a whole to have one guild gearing out a dozen toons per person just to camp at each raid spawn and keep everything locked down. I can't imagine that's healthy for the people doing the monopolization and it's certainly not much fun for the rest of the server.
This is a rather unfortunate situation and I think it's great that we'll start to see some push from the staff to curtail this behavior. It's sad that it got to this point, but eventually the adults have to take the toys away from the kids and put them to bed.