Originally Posted by Twochain
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FTE lockouts would be a little different with rooted dragons, as you would still need to crawl. It would essentially be the same as it is now, except, ya know, without two guilds on top of each other. And the more I think about it, the more I think it should be a solution for green but not blue. IF we did go that route on blue, i'd hope that bag limits would be removed.
Hell on Blue, i'd be fine with giving non Vanq/KRiot 24 hour lock outs instead of 1 hour. I'd hope it would motivate some smaller guilds to show up and give it a shot. (Even though it didn't really happen that way when Sirken implemented this, FoH/Venerate did often try to compete when they were clearly the 4th or 5th guild on the chain, we even got a statue once and got AoW down to 40%.. but it did allow Rustle to operate as a small raid force)
The fact that were years into Menden/Galachs tenure and there has been 0 real scandals, 0 people crying that they got banned for literally no reason, No months long raid bans ETC, i'd point to that as them doing a good job. Don't forget that after Sirken stepped down the GM's that remained almost immediately tried to impose a forced rotation for the whole server. (Thank you Rogean for throwing the kibosh on that) People cry about "indifference" in regards to current rulings.. but I don't think it's indifference. I think people who blatantly break rules on raids, with proof, will get immediately slapped. Everything in the Gray area probably falls into the "play on, and play better" ruling. And of course, that's not something you can say to a whole server, because the tears that would ensue would flood the north east. And not for nothing, it's probably the best way to go about P99 raiding in 2021. Riot is alive because of a GM enforced bag limit. If not, they'd probably be dead, because the brutal nature of this server is, that if you're a hard core raiding guild, and not snagging Vulak kills, you die. AM went from the biggest zerg EQ has ever seen, to barely fielding 50-60 people in LESS THAN TWO MONTHS because we started losing Vulaks to Riot. Riot is not dying because GM's are indifferent, it's because their Vulak strat isn't great, and they don't have enough people making plays to ensure kills. Just like AM.
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