+1
Guilds have left the server before (IB) But they came back. This server does have something special about it that others cannot replicate easily, and people are drawn to that. I've stopped playing multiple times since I started playing here, but I always come back, there's nothing like P99.
Cleaning up the raid scene doesn't mean halting competition or the drive to kill raid mobs, that will all still happen. Heck, look at class R, not everyone liked the rotation but it was easy to manage and the GMs had less to deal with, even with the large amount of guilds in class R (Still applicable today).
What happened to earthquakes? What was the reason they stopped happening so frequently (it was part of the raid discussions that they were to happen to make sure class C got the same amount of mobs while class R had mobs too)? I wasn't here when they stopped happening but I've heard Rogean put a nix on them because of the toxicity that occurred in class C? Would it really be a bad thing to clean all of that up?
I'm not talking about disbanding guilds randomly because I don't like them, I'm talking about repeat offenders being punished adequately and incrementally more dramatically as they continue to break rules, even while others are able to not do so in the name of the health of the entire server.
Take a look at the "Raid Discussion" forum. On the first page of the raid forum, there are 4 suspension posts for TMO alone. That's twice that of the guild with the second most suspensions (IB with 2).
What percentage of the population raids again? How much time do the GMs devote to them?
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