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Originally Posted by casdegere
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How can you say it is unfair? Put the time in and even the score. You get in what you put in. For 48 hours, people have their characters sitting in those zones doing nothing. no one says that other guilds can not do the same. Personally, I like to play, I have RL friends that I group with and we have a ball, but I got a life beyond the pixels, especially with SWTOR coming down the pipe. It is what it is and if its harshing your buzz, step away man.
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I think what you're not getting is why the 4 day variance was introduced in the first place.
It was initially brought up as a way to combat the stinky sock that made an introduction during the very early days of the server. Though it only happened rarely and wasn't a very large problem, it was nevertheless thought of as a potential issue. A 4 day window was thought to be long enough to combat anyone sitting on any particular spawn in order to essentially camp rights to that mob. Nobody in their right minds thought that people would be big enough douchemonkeys to actually sit there for 4+ days -- in fact that was in the rules, though i'm pretty sure they didn't use the word 'douchemonkeys'. Needless to say, people didn't hesitate to fill their socks, regardless of it essentially being a loophole in the rules. Actually, ever since the 4 day windows were introduced poopsocking has become the norm whenever there is competition for a high valued target. Basically the 4 day window did nothing but fill more socks and hasn't contributed to the health of the server whatsoever and to boot it's something that live never had. People can argue that you need 4 day windows to ease up on GM involvement and petitions but i'm pretty damn sure that doesn't matter anymore (see uthgaard's recent posts). By now people should have realized that poopsock has nothing to do with variance and variance has nothing to do with poopsock, which essentially means it's useless.
It still lingers here, like an ancient relic of shitty player decisions that ultimately got enforced by GMs.