New Raiding Rules: Training
Premise: Training is a currently accepted tactic most notably in VP, Inny, and CT encounters. This is unofficially supported by our lovely hosts for this server but I personally feel it is detrimental to the server in a few ways:
1) The guild with the best ability to handle trains of varying sizes wins. More often than not, the success of a group hit with a train is simply HOW MANY there are and puts A LOT of emphasis on which guild is bigger rather than how that guild plays.
2) After multiple groups have wiped to a back and forth train, it becomes exponentially more difficult for any group to recover and make a new attempt simply because they have less of an ability to deal with a train but a monk, for example, still has the same ability to CAUSE a train immediately upon being rez'd. No fun for anyone.
3) Even if a group assembled and began an attempt upon a target, a train would turn a 20% target from a sure-fire win for a good team into easy pickings for whoever showed up late and brought a train with them. The incentive to mobilize and cause positive impact against raids targets is highly diminished because of this.
NOTE: These are the issues I HAVE SEEN. These examples are currently in violation of the server policies in some case but I have seen it occur more often than not and the issue of training in particular needs to have a new charter with a NO tolerance policy in order to be effective.
ENFORCEABILITY: The biggest problem I see with training is being able to prove a train was caused and therefore enforce any sort of action against offenders. Because of this, I believe a ZERO tolerance policy should be enacted (accidental or intentional trains be considered equal). In order to make an effective policy, I suggest that ANY TRAIN caused intentionally or unintentionally by any member of a guild against another guild that HAS ALREADY engaged a target should ban that guild from killing/looting that particular instance of the mob as well as ban the guild from the zone for a period of 2 hours. The rule is simple, severe and has no permanent penalty (which I think is important).
Let's discuss, should training be permissible? Why?
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