The basic "problem" is that classic raiding on live was horrible. The game lent itself to spawn camping by entire guilds (affectionately later called "poop socking" -- sounds pleasant), racing, kill stealing, training, bottle-necking progression (affectionately called "cock blocking" --again, sounds pleasant, right?) etc.
Live EQ never solved these problems until end-game PoP (INSTANCED POTIME). On **some servers** the competing guilds cooperated and entered into their own agreements because it was mutually beneficial, but the game mechanics and CS teams never solved them. In the end, it was only fixed by designing content that was hard to bottleneck or was actually instanced.
So...the "problem" here is that the server did what it was designed to do. The state of raiding on P99 is a FEATURE intentionally replicated and implemented by the designers.
There was an era in the server history where I thought the dev team had changed their philosophy on this. For those of you who weren't here yet, Rogean shut down all raiding for all guilds. He did this until they agreed to cooperate in a raiding system. The result was the class R and class C system. It wasn't a perfect system, but it was a milestone in p99's history. The commitment to the paradigm shift that caused raid reform here seems to have waned in recent times on the server.
Maybe the team decided on a change of heart and went back to their original design philosophy?
Maybe the team decided that enforcement was impossible with given resources and they gave up on it?
Personally, I think they were on the right road and they got off of it (for whatever reason), but that's just opinion. The current state of the server is what it is now...and I don't imagine it changing much. The one exception is that I hope they use p99 to beta test the systems they will hopefully implement on the reboot iteration of p99 whenever that happens.
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