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Originally Posted by Pan
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Good points, I think.
Also in play here is that the CS varied from server to server on live a great deal - depended on the personalities of the GMs (among other things). So it could be more than the server pop (individuals) in play there, too. But, in systems generally, if there's a niche (resources), that niche will be exploited in a way that benefits the most competitive.
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Yes, but that doesn't mandate the pants-on-head cockblocking, leapfrogging, training, spying, stalling, & etc. that we've seen here. There were a number of live servers that were highly competitive yet had reasonable behavior by the top guilds. By reasonable I mean things like:
1. You don't fuck with another guild's attempt at a mob. If the mob was a big deal (Trak & Sev during Kunark are a couple obvious ones) it was always immediately engaged by another guild after a wipe, but the first guild on the scene with a legit raid force got their attempt.
2. You don't engage with inadequate force and stall/kite while the rest of your force gets its shit together. #1 doesn't work without this.
3. You don't train another guild's raid. No on purpose. Not "by accident". Not ever.
Once behavior like that was established as the norm on a server the server GM would typically enforce it on the rare occasions that some group started acting up. There'd be a lot of shit-talking during the run-up to an engagement on contested mobs, but actual douchebaggery was kept to a minimum by common consent. That didn't mean guilds wouldn't try to keep mobs spawning in their preferred time-slot, or make strong efforts to monopolize mobs that were bottlenecks to advanced content like Trak, but they'd seek to dominate by simply being better organized and more capaable at the game rather than by being unrepentant douchenozzles the way too damned many people are here.
[edit]And all of that was obvious to non-raiders observing. The racing and shit-talking and obsessive pixellust still turned a fair few off to the whole scene, but it was nothing at all like the raid scene on p99. This server's raid scene is very special in a very unpleasantly childish
Lord of The Flies sort of way.[/edit]