Without reading the thread (so these may have been suggested), ways to completely eliminate poopsocking:
1. Everything is rotated, no races
2. Everyone is given an ability that self-ports you to a random EQ zone. You must use this ability once after a raid mob spawns prior to being allowed to engage it. Using this ability at any other time is somehow prevented.
3. Everything spawns at once.
4. Everyone has the option to immediately teleport to a mob's zone when mob pops.
Most of these are horrible suggestions but without eliminating the benefit of poopsocking, or clearly defining what it is and banning it by some simple rule (and you must be content with the specific thing you define as poopsocking as players will exploit the technicalities of the definition to the max), you will not get rid of it.
It is even difficult for players themselves to come to a no poopsocking agreement because server staff value and promote competition, and poopsocking is by far one of the largest determining factors of who will win said competition. In fact it makes almost no sense to promote 'competition' but be against 'poopsocking' with the current ruleset since they both amount to generally the same thing.
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