It depends what you mean by "hard coded". There was no mechanic that actually stopped guilds from defecting on the agreement (intentionally or on-purpose), which to me means not hard coded. GMs had to swoop in on a case by case basis after events had unfolded and make a ruling. It was entirely enforced by the CS people and not by the actual mechanics of the game.
AFAIK, the major guilds did, in fact, agree to this system before Rogean began spawning raid bosses again.
The point I was making is that, for whatever reasons, Rogean pre-velious decided to address what he thought were issues with the server's raiding system. It wasn't perfect, but it did (at least imo) work to bring some significantly positive change to the raiding scene on p99 for several months.
That desire to reform raiding on p99 has since apparently diminished. Why the reverse in their thoughts? Perhaps it was only inspired by the desire to launch velious the right way, perhaps Rogean had a change of mind, or perhaps the server staff simply can't enforce the system how they would like with their given resources and are settling atm for what they can do.
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