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Originally Posted by Splorf22
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One of the things you guys need to stop doing is assuming that we are stupid. Your plan got a lot of backlash because most people did not see it as a good faith effort, but rather an attempt to pull the wool over our eyes. There are huge differences between Divinity's plan and your plan, even if the 7 days becomes 10.
IMO one of the best parts of Divinity's plan is that all guilds get to see all the content eventually without having to step into the fetid swamp of variance raiding.
Agreed 100%.
That being said, in any negotiation its important to consider your BATNA (best alternative to an agreement). I don't think the raid guilds have fully realized just how bad theirs is. The real question is not how long the non-raid guild would hold out (forever) but how Sirken would assign votes to various guilds. One vote per guild (or per player) and the casual guilds just cathartically vote in a full rotation, and your share of the mobs drops from 70% to 30%. He might not do that, because he does love competition, but do you really want to take that chance?
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I don't think there's any wool. I think that people play EQ because it was an MMO that actually required work and was a challenge, It's NOT an instant gratification video game like WoW or any MMO after EQ.
When you play call of duty, you login and level up to attain power ups, skills and weapons and over time you progress. You get out of the video game what you put into it. Some that are willing to put more in, get more out. Simple. You're asking to put less in and get more out, so it seems reasonable that this wouldn't be a perfect Utopian 50/50 split. 10 days of 30 days seems pretty reasonable and there are mobs Tier 1 guilds don't touch in those other 20 days too.
Taken stepped up and started spanking Inny because they decided to put more into the game, someone could have easily done the same for any other mob out there especially as you say you have the numbers. It seems to be we should be looking at distribution by participation, activity, contribution not by mouths to feed. just imho.