I would imagine the biggest thing holding casual guilds back is also the scheduled raid vs. batphoned raid.
Knowing you've got Yelinak up and you can go after him at 7PM in your prime time zone. People will camp out in advance and log in for this is they know it's a guaranteed attempt.
But if you're aiming at a 5-8PM window where you're going to race, people aren't going to precamp out because many only have one toon. People also aren't really inclined to have a free window where they can instantly be made available for a raid when they'd like to do other things in EQ. Getting out of a Crypt or HS group at 6 PM when a raid mob spawns isn't exactly easy/natural for many of these players. I remember being in Sebilis one time when Trakanon spawned, 2 guys in the group instantly /quit out from TMO and IB then exploited their IP exemptions to log on their precamped 60s.
It wouldn't even dawn on many casuals to do this, let along bail on their group in a more respectful way. Many times that leaves the group hanging and totally cripples their ability to continue camping whatever they were camping.
Now if you wanted to leave every target up until 7PM and then race for a few targets using /random to signal the start, ignoring all the tracking nonsense I'm sure you could get some interested.
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