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Originally Posted by arsenalpow
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It's always an arms race and the fuel for this has always been the staff/devs who have plainly stated that they want to see competition.
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Then the staff needs to stop creating convoluted raid rules that have too many loopholes and exploitations and just let people go all out. Either lay the hammer down and come up with something concrete that is fair to EVERYONE, not just 2 big kids playing in the sandbox while everyone else has to watch, or just let everyone go at it like the savages they truly are, spreading trains, killsteals, and everything else.
What is the point of the competition? As someone who has been in that special sandbox, it's f*cking pointless and not fun at all. Ya, sure, getting gear is great, but it makes you feel like a real sack of crap when you're watching rare loot get destroyed that you know someone else could use, just because they're under a different tag.
This isn't a job, no one is making any money off of this. Rogean has thrown the gauntlet down on anyone who even ATTEMPTS to make a coin off his server. Hell, he barely covers the expenses to run it through donations, and most of his staff doesn't even play here, but they work on it to provide something for others, because their passions was the programming side and figuring out whether or not they could do it. Well, they did it, but immature attitudes from the playerbase, particularly the raid scene, is just destroying what they've worked so hard to create because people want to throw tantrums over a damned digital dragon and who made contact first?
If you took all of the raid suspensions from each major guild, each kill they've gotten, and everything else and put it all into a spreadsheet, I guaran'damn'tee you it will come out pretty f*cking even, with the exception being smaller, upstart guilds being completely squashed at every turn when they're trying to gear up with planar trash drops.
Server numbers may visually appear to be somewhat steady, but look around the raid scene. People are constantly quitting because of the horrible conditions of that social aspect of the game. Most of the 'does not drop anymore' loot is locked into characters that don't even log in anymore, the server's only Ton Po's staff is stuck on a guy permabanned for cheating because of this ass backwards raid system. That right there should have been a HUGE red flag that something was totally wrong with how things are being ran, from both sides of the field.
Rogean has said time and time again he and a lot of the staff do not play here, which is totally respectable because it gives a totally unbiased view when dealing with GM matters, but quite honestly and with total respect (as sometimes things are lost in the tone of the internet, and want to make it clear I'm just posting this as a discussion statement and not trying to belittle the staff in any way), I think it puts you in a position to really not know what calls to make in regards to the raid scene on the server. It's a whole different experience to be part of the raid spending hours behind the view of a character, constantly interacting with your own guild and their rivals.
The current version of the competition aspect doesn't add anything to the server other than more issues for the staff to deal with, so why bring more issues on yourselves?