Actually FE/TMO mirror each other very well.
1. Uberguild [TR/TMO] dominates the raiding scene, is faster at mobilization etc and has gotten 90% of all boss mobs for months
2. Hungrier players [TMO/FE] decide those P1999 pixels are worth getting up at 3AM and start tracking and batphoning
3. Uberguild still gets everything
4. New guild zerg recruits everyone with a pulse, bringing 60-80 players to raids
5. Uberguild laughs at zerg guild, but meanwhile their attendance drops a bit since after all they are mostly farming for alts at this point6. New guild begins to figure things out and gets some kills (because after all EQ raiding is not hard; you can't really be that much more skilled than the next guy, unless you are in the A-Team).
7. Old guild finally collapses as people just don't care enough to log in any more, complains about corrupt GM and RMTs out to Eqmac.
8. New guild prunes away some of the worse players in their zerg, gears everyone up, and laughs at the casual guilds.
9. See step 1.
Of course 7-9 have not happened to TMO yet [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]