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Originally Posted by Dumesh Uhl'Belk
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If no one could ever zone into fear except when it was at full pop, including CT, then I would be cool with what you suggest. CT spawning doesn't insta repop the whole zone does it? If it did, then your suggestion would be cool with me, but not as the published server rule... just as an agreement between the guilds that raid CT.
You plan just plain doesn't address what happens if the zone is 2/3 clear with 2 golems up when CT spawns, or 3/4 clear with no golems up.
You mention 100 members in Fear, "no reason not to" you say. Well, feel free to try it. You may get the first few CTs, but guilds that size collapse because they can't get loot fast enough to keep that many people happy and engaged. Guilds that raid with 25-40 people (less during some periods of EQ, more during POP) always advanced faster and were more cohesive because each member had a greater chance at getting loot, and the guild as a whole would get equipped and ready to move on to newer content faster.
All I am really saying is that there are downward pressures on guild and alliance size too. We'll see where the equilibrium is reached.
Sure when 2 or 3 guilds are in PoFear for the first time after this rule goes into effect there will be some kind of mexican stand-off as the guilds try to decide the best way to handle it. Should they just setup near CT and wait for the other guilds to kill all the mobs? If they do that, will the other guilds continue to kill mobs? Will the guild/raid leaders try to talk to each other and agree to a joint raid? Will they random for a shot? I'm not sure exactly what strategies will be employed, BUT as long as no one is training each other, KSing each other, or calling a GM over an issue not related to training or KSing, I'm totally cool with whatever they decide.
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I'm just trying to work through possibilties. The two planes are for the most part cleared upon repop by any group looking for planar drops and/or people waiting for raid mobs to spawn. There are occurrences of fear being fully populated, with golems, and no one is clearing. If CT popped, this is where the rules could have this clause just to help decide whether or not a guild is just going to sit there and AFK camp for 3-5 hours while the other guild clears and then hop on it, or if they go ahead and get to killing off the rest of fear quicker because they have first shot. There's still a huge race involved but it's not as long of an event.