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Originally Posted by Tilien
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None of this is counter to what I said. Competition rules are arbitrary, especially on a PvE server. "EXP group loots and distributes" is straight forward and final, as well. It is a little funny you say that FTE is straight forward and final when it apparently creates mountains of petitions.
Like take rules for engaging only 1 yellow text mobs for example: Does that make the race more fun if you can only engage 1 mob? Does it make CSR's job easier? Not really, all it does it make it so one guild can't monopolize. Again, arbitrary.
Again, you could just have some race or competition without the actual raid mob spawned to determine who gets mobs in the next cycle and save a ton of headache for everyone (no poop socking, no point or reason for trains to exist etc, if you wipe due to train just set up and go it again since you already won.). This fits all your criteria of having adrenaline/fun/saving headaches.
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Racing with 1 hour lockouts literally remove all chance to petition, unless you think somebody is running faster than everyone else. The mob spawns, 5 minutes later you roll, FTE goes out, that guild has the mob for an hour. From there, it is very easy to come up with a set of guidelines on the locks, such as if another mob spawns right next to it, ETC.
Compare this to wiping at Eashen ramp for 3 hours at 3am. Or 6 hour Vulak kills with 4 zone wide wipes. This is exactly what you're looking at, and it's only going to get worse as more people/guilds show up to contest these mobs. It's not a matter of one guild cheating or not. It's just inevitably what will happen. I know this from 2 years of experience in this meta. From there, tempers flare, people sling mud, and try to always try to blame someone when in reality it's just the nature of 200 people sitting on top of each other trying to kill the same mob.
P99 is the only server out there, in any game, which offers a competitive PVE environment. This should be one of the most celebrated parts of our servers, however, anybody who brings up P99 on something like reddit you will immediately see a comment about how p99 is awesome but "the raid scene is awful". And I think this is largely perceived incorrectly.
To the other poster, I disagree with you about a raid democracy. I think the GM's would have fluttering hearts if 70-75% of the raid community came together and agreed on something that would ultimately give them less petitionquesting to wade through.
AND if we came together as a community, we really could see something like "October is Tournament Mode" Where guilds have to compete in various ways to win that weeks lot of mobs. Guild vs Guild pvp, 1v1 pvp (although sadly this is generally a gear check), HELL, Freeport to Temple of Veeshan gnome races. Whatever we wanted to do. Because at the end of the day, we have this content for literally ever. Doing something fun or different for a month won't matter at all (especially on the blue server, i'm sure ST would cry a little bit about a gnome race at this point in Green)