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Originally Posted by lookitsjb [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Go full custom content mode. Hear me out:

GMs already have discord integration with their EQ server, allowing them to see what GMs summon what items (from the old Braknar/Sirken posts with the Manastone nonsense). So...

Everything spawns invulnerable.
The P99 server posts a message like "Eashen of the Sky raid in 2 hours. Sign up below" where people sign up with an emoji reaction.
Bot messages you so you can register your character's Name/Class/Level
Bot then randomly generates new guilds, equally divvys up the signed-up members across those guilds, and creates the separate voice channels for those guilds
At raid time, everyone joins their teams raid voice channel in P99 and competition begins that way.
"DKP" bidding can then be handled by implementing the in-game Chronos nonsense built into Titanium Client and handed out via the bot as well. The winning guild gets chronos (DKP) for their character, and they can then use that to DKP auction buy the drops in discord.

Sounds extreme right? It's a modern solution that allows everyone to raid regardless of guild tag.

Or... and this one is crazier than the above suggestion... People just act like adults, understand mistakes happen, and own those mistakes. Understand that if someone on your team messes up, you (as a whole) are responsible. It doesn't take a set of "raid rules" to know what you should and shouldn't do in a competition setting. Common sense isn't null and void because there's a list of ambiguously defined, rarely enforced, rules written in 3 different spots of a forum, all containing conflicting information.

Any solution that relies on "expect people to be better people" is doomed to failure.