Replacing respawns with all quakes is definitely the best and simplest proposal here. As mentioned, this is the one time that actual competition happens right now. A quake forces the reigning mega guild (at the moment Riot) to actually prioritize. Windows heavily favor whoever has the numbers. Quakes do something that spawn windows cannot, they require EVERY guild to prioritize their targets, instead of just camping one to three windows at a time.
But when it quakes EVERYONE gets a piece. Sure smaller/less experienced guilds are essentially taking scraps, but those scraps are being socked by the big guild if there's nothing in window and more casual guilds don't have infrastructure to care about socking fucking Talendor. Yet on quake they can find him uncontested for hours.
The way things are right now, guilds are finding themselves unable to even do their usual HoT runs at times. Because if nothing is in window, or even if only one thing is in window, then there's always plenty of Riot members happy to farm SOMETHING.
Rotations could absolutely work in place of this, it would take a lot of up front work and some creativity, but once established could be mostly automatic. The problem is that for a rotation to happen every guild has to buy in and make the player agreement that staff will enforce. There will never be a reason for the prominent mega guild to buy in to any rotation because they stand to lose more than they would gain. Today its Riot who would block that plan, yesterday it was AM, in the future it will be < Someone Else >.
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