I've not given this much thought, but makes sense to me now.
Hear me out...
Suppose all the current raid rules magically disappear and consequences to breaking those rules are null and void. Everyone's raid /petitions are ignored and deleted. The raid scene is left to sort itself out (kind of like a free market).
You train a raid? Well, most likely, someone in that raid will retaliate and fudge with your raid in some form or another. Eventually everyone will figure out how to work together, after constantly being denied loot time and time again.
It's relatively easy to ensure mutual destruction in a scene like that.
Say 1 guild becomes absolutely dominate and gets all the phat lootz. Eventually everyone will flock to that particular guild and it will inevitably self implode from pixel lust/insurrection. Maybe, a crap ton of smaller/less effective guilds join together to ensure that dominating guild is unable to raid? Then that alliance starts to dominate. Eventually infighting will happen and it will fall apart.
From my short time here, I've seen P99 is very "Era" oriented. Winners will fall and others will take their place. Competition tends to drive innovation.
Just a thought. Feel free to shit on it.
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