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Originally Posted by maestrom
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You're spot on except for this.
The rule says nothing about targets being in window. Guilds are free to sock targets as long as they want. They're gonna sock anyways, I say make socking a 100% shot at the target.
If Target A has a 16 hour window, and that window starts in 6 hours. Your guild is free, if it wants to, to roll its raid force into the zone and claim the fuck out of that target. The point of the rule is to give smaller guilds a tool that they can use to ensure they get a shot at targets they want, be they epic encounters, other kunark targets, or lower priority/easier Velious targets.
Big dog guilds will still get the vast majority of the pixels, but a small but determined force of adventurers will have a way of saying "Yes. Saturday we get Gorenaire, get your bodies ready", even if that means Saturday starts on Friday night.
Shit's classic.
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I'm down with this. And the longer you sock something to make sure you get it, the whole time you are removing your entire guild from other considerations. One guild can claim a force at trak for the next two weeks and bag a few kills, but they would be removing their ability to make any claim on any other target for that entire span. This also eliminates the awful byproduct of FTE: sitting at zone and not being able to exp in zone while your guild socks a target. There's no reason other than the FTE madness for why we cant hunt in a zone while a mob is in window. When VS is in window you have 2-4 guilds who have characters who cant hunt there and they might not even get the spawn. This eliminates both of those problems.
I think there will be times, such as after updates or server respawns where the server will have been empty and there will be situations where nobody has claimed a force and several groups are trying. We'd need a mechanism to settle that.