Hasbinbad your post isn't designed to show people the way to influence GMs and get what they want by posting in a more constructive manner. If you wanted positive change you would address what led to all of this. IN GAME actions. The rules were created due to the actions of a few against a server of many. The raid guilds at the 'top' acting like assholes for so long all of the red tape was created more red tape on top of red tape. I stand by that the manner to fix the problem was to go to the core of the issue, the behavior in game. Because if that was working as it should all of the stuff you complain about wouldn't exist. You preach about posting in a manner so as not to have things look negative here but ignore the acting in a manner to achieve the same.
All the raid guilds on top whomever had to do was not create what we have now. The atmosphere and environment a very small percentage of the population has created is the problem. I would say the people who are up in arms right now care more about the server's reputation and health more then you say to. When IB or TR got to the top with no 'competition' it would have been easy to affect change. Yet greed and arrogance led us to this. You claim people have the same chance due to fair play and fair competition but it isn't. Ever see those commercials where the kids get the run around from the banker, the ally bank commercials? Here is one you can youtube the rest.
It is wrong
It is wrong
It is cause and effect. What will happen in society if times get tougher and now their kids are starving? Protests. Crime goes up. More arrests. Crime goes up some more. Looting. Riots. Social breakdown. The national guard is called in. Martial law. Heck watch V for Vendetta. This is all effect Hasbinad, not cause. I agree with you about the posting reflecting negatively but you played your part in it coming to this. Maybe one of you geniuses could've seen it coming and prevented it. What will happen if we make sure no other guild gets raid targets guys? Is that good or bad for the server. Think they'll mind? Maybe we can help perpetuate a system where the process to get a raid mob becomes so convoluted and bothersome they simply will go away and stop trying. And despite that when it comes out you guys were 'starving' people in an eq sense, mocking them and lording over them, destroying their guilds and friendships and weren't doing it on the up and up you are surprised at the reaction? You blame people who are outraged for turning people away from the server? What about the hundreds who left because of the raid environment here?
It astounds me you think giving a car a new paint job will fix the engine problem. New wallpaper when the house beams are rotting from termites. When your house is crawling with ants don't clean it, throw away garbage and secure food. Just spray ant and roach killer. Put a bandaid on a broken arm.
Again, fix the core issues, the heart of all this. IN GAME actions. And all of this on the forums would go back to the normal RnF silly posts. I am talking about quite simply what you ignore. The nice part of raid nice play nice. And practice what your preach. You can't spit in a man's face and then when he comes looking for blood give him some eye for an eye speech. You don't kick a man's dog and then cry to the police about vandalism when he busts your windows and slashes your car tires. You don't want the guy slashing tires don't kick his fucking dog. You don't want people to cry in outrage? The answer is simple.
This made me chuckle though...
from Mitic. lol