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Originally Posted by Argh
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Class C/R has nothing to do about differing play styles. It was about separating the guilds who dominated the content from guilds that couldn't/wouldn't compete. If it were about play styles, the GMs would be enforcing the rotation.
Rogean throughout the negotiations showed his weariness for restricting open access to Class R mobs.
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You're confounding play style with raid organization. No, the plan put in did not include a rotation, but casual is not the same as a rotation. A rotation is just one form of raid tool for casual raiding. There were numerous other ways that you can have cooperative, decent raiding that isn't hardcore FFA style without going to a rotation. You could do what happened after TMO's ban, and basically say you can't engage a mob you killed previously for a certain amount of time after spawn. That is still a casual style, but it isn't a rotation exactly.
Dolj was never pushing for a casual style is the point. They wanted the hardcore competitiveness that is inherently degradive to the goal of letting everyone see the content. That style is fine, but you cannot let more people see the content without separating people that want hardcore FFA styles from those that are more chill about raiding. Dolj wanted the style that was hardcore competitive, which is Class C. It is not the server's guild's fault that enough smaller guilds don't desire that type of style, and so choose not to go into class C, where they can get more loot faster.
The point is that it is path dependent. You cannot have the end goal without that separation, because the hardcore FFA style is inherently degradive to the goal of letting more people see the content. You separate out the two groups of people, and you let it go. The GMs should not enforce any rotation, because that is the way that the vast majority of class R guilds, that are chill and laid back, decided to go about it. Dolj, however, showed a personality and style that is far more the aim of being in class C. That's how you get more content to people.
If a guild like Dolj was as good as TMO and stayed in class R outside of rotation, they'd have a solid 1/3rd of the content. Split the other 2/3rds among the few top class R guilds, and that's it. That's the end of every mob. Instead, class R guilds got together, and in the spirit of making sure everyone sees content, made a rotation so that all guilds in class R would see content, rather than having the content dominated by 3 guilds. You need to have people with a different style in mind in Class R if you are ever going to see all people get a shot at content, and that's what happened. It is remarkably similar to the idea of Duverger's Law in political science.