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Originally Posted by Draagun
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You will never get everyone to agree it's just not going to happen. The P99 staff will have to make a choice that will result in one group that will just leave the game. So comes down to whom do they want to leave more? The hardcore raiders that are here playing every day or the casuals that are just tourists here.
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I'd hardly say guilds like Divinity, Taken, Bregan D'Aerth, A-Team, Europa, and every other guild that isn't TMO/IB/FE are "just tourists here". No, this isn't an indivisible issue. We have views that cannot be merged together, because we each seek something completely different.
It doesn't have to be being hardcore ruins being casual, and being casual ruins hardcore. If you let hardcores hardcore how they want in VP, and with their half of all the mobs on the server, and let the casual casual how they want on their half of all mobs except VP, each can do what they want, and each can achieve *most* of their goals. The hardcores can't get themselves off at other people's failures (hardly the main goal of all hardcores, of course), and casuals can't get into VP and turn that into a casual zone (also, hardly the main goal of all casuals).
The hardcores don't have to leave, the casuals don't have to leave. We can all raid our fair share of the server, with the hardcores having more than a fair share, giving them far more so competition remains useful. Hardcores get 4-6x more mobs to compete over in a month than the casuals do, but the casuals get enough amongst themselves that they can rotate, or they can institute friendly competitive policies that still allow their members to *EARN* their epics, rather than have to pay the top guild for it. There's more than enough mobs a month to compete over (something around 2-3 pops a day for the hardcores), and there's more than enough for the casuals (about 5 per month for each guild) to share or to compete over in a more friendly fashion.
This is not that hard of a thing. It isn't that catastrophic.