Here's the thing about mage tracking, it was Sirken's attempt at removing autofire. In that aspect it was widely successful.
Here's the other thing, if we were to create a rule that said no CoTH ducking, at what point do we punish the guilds that did X amount of accidental casts? Its going to be a lawyer quest no matter what happens.
We can work on creating a formalized petition to remove CoTH ducking, specifically during the last 3 hours of window, but its not the solution we are really looking for...but its a start.
Deru you said that there is too much poopsocking occurring to consider granting us any favorable changes in variance reduction. If we were to agree on ratifying this mage issue would it warrant a favorable GM change?
The most effective way to incite change in your staff is to provide tangible goals with desirable rewards. If the GMs are able to provide a specific favorable change, I'm sure it would result in change (if the goal is tangible).
I think the CoTH ducking is really only being upheld by a few people that are incentivizing others to do the same. Currently there is no incentive for a larger guild with the means to swap out factioned mages throughout the 16hr window to stop this process. Its fairly annoying, but its an advantage over those who cannot and therefore that discriminating factor outweighs the inconvenience. That's why I recommend a GM endorsed goal with a promise of reduced variance.
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