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Originally Posted by Keza
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I also disagree with guild competition being fun as well, but only because it's not quite competition. A competition implies a lot of things that EQ raids don't have. This is more like a bunch of greedy animals in a Walmart trampling each other on a black Friday sale. There's no real competition. We all know the state of it, there's no need to go into it, but not many people actually find this fun. They just do it for the pixels.
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This. This. This.
This is the silent majority.
Competition? You can call it that all you want, and maybe a small part of it is actually about who had devised the cleverest way to mobilize a large force quickly. But that only applies to the current guilds who "compete".
In real life, what this looks like is that you have two groups of players. Group A, the "competitors", who are either unemployed, live alone, or don't have a good family situation. (Does that sound nasty? I don't mean it to be.)
Group B would love to kill dragons in NTOV, and, on rare occasions when Group A has been banned, have done so. But they work, they have families, and in the spirit of setting a good example for their children, they don't' get up and leave the dinner table because something sweet has just spawned.
On the rare occasions where things work out that a group B guild has the opportunity to mobilize for a nice spawn, and begins to gather a force, it's not at all unusual for a group A guild to jump them. (As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, group A is more practiced and better at mobilizing quickly.)
So let me repeat that. The group B guild, for which circumstances line up two or three times a year just right that they're able to even attempt an NTOV dragon, gets jumped by a group A guild that does NTOV dragons hundreds of times a year. You know what that is? Jackassery. Lack of courtesy. Disrespect. Greed.
Are we adults, or kids? Play nice, anyone?
Others have pointed out elsewhere that those who put in the most time should (and will) reap the most reward. (No welfare pixels!!) And you'll get no disagreement from me. But since the scenario above plays out that way so often, you know what the B guilds want? A shot. Once in a while! If the group A guilds were more courteous to the group B guilds on the rare occasions when they were able to mobilize for NTOV dragons, you'd have a lot fewer people calling for a rotation.
We don't need your welfare, group A. We just need your courtesy.