My greatest point of contention with the whole situation is variance.
- It's not classic.
- It rewards those who stare at a wall for a 16 hour window doing nothing else (promotes neckbearding).
- It discourages casuals from partaking or taking that next step up.
- It allows guilds to completely monopolize because mobs almost never spawn together, meaning they never have to make a choice between going for mob X or Y -- especially since the neckbeardiest among us have enough 60 Alts to park at each zone.
The fact that the staff is so vehemently opposed to removing variance is discouraging. I get it, it is likely to increase poopsocking. Well let's make some common sense rules that prevent poopsocking so that we may be allowed to compete without having to stare at a wall for 16 hours.
Don't keep coming at us and saying "you promised to stop poopsocking when we went from holy-Jesus neckbeard levels of 72 hour variance down to you're very unemployed neckbeard levels of 16 hour variance". Well guess what, people will inch forward on any race line until a line is drawn in the sand. Draw that line with a suspension.
Hell, suspend Taken for a month for poopsocking for all I care just so long as you bring us a classic experience with 0 variance and CLEAR anti-poopsocking rules that are CLEAR CUT (I emphasize clarity - 3 in zone when spawns or disqualified. Things that aren't as simple as a number or starting line will just lead to rule lawyering),the penalty for breaking them being suspensions that hurt... Not a week off VP which is extremely weak. The fact that people were complaining about these suspensions is laughable. I can't wait for the next accidental train that happens to kill someone during an Inny engage leads us to a week suspension from PoHate.