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Originally Posted by Francois [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Would you guys please stop quoting the trolls? I've spent a lot of time ignoring all of them, and I don't like accidentally reading their nonsense.

Also, doesn't http://themysticalorder.net show that you have 168 active raiders for the month of July?

i raided three times since i've been back over the past month and a half.

bet i'm on that active list.

[bluejam]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Should just have an honor system in place for all raid targets except the planes really (since theres so many mobs to pull in fear/hate theres essentially enough to "share"). In other words, if guild A has 10-15 ppl in zone and the raid target is up, guild B says "Ok they've gathered faster, we will gather faster then them next time (or not)."

So guilds will have to absorb more players in order to field those 15 ppl more quickly... sounds great!

Originally Posted by Jennei [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just make the mob FFA. Whichever guild does more dmg, wins!

See above.

That PVP vid looked like balls of fun tbh. I've never pvp'ed in EQ, but it would really spice things up for a change, haha. Although one guild would prolly just wait until the other engages, move in and start AEing the shit out of everyone :P . Activate /guildwar and see what happens.

[vinx]

Originally Posted by bluejam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That PVP vid looked like balls of fun tbh. I've never pvp'ed in EQ, but it would really spice things up for a change, haha. Although one guild would prolly just wait until the other engages, move in and start AEing the shit out of everyone :P . Activate /guildwar and see what happens.

you usually had a heads up when another guild was otw, and you prepped for it

on VZ there was some awesome mass zoneline and raid battles..
i was such a newb then (didnt get to raid much due to time).. but for the most part during these battles, all i did was target any opposing healers and stick to them
(no vent then = all commands in chat..and i was always to excited.. or trying not to die and would miss MA commands lol)

imo, its alot more fun then the actual raid encounter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kruel]

So from what i hear FTE doesnt mean first to hit the target or cast at the target. It means proxy aggro, so the guild with more ppl right under were he spawns has a higher chance of FTE. Can anyone confirm that this is how it works now?

[Aadill]

Originally Posted by Francois [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Would you guys please stop quoting the trolls? I've spent a lot of time ignoring all of them, and I don't like accidentally reading their nonsense.

Also, doesn't http://themysticalorder.net show that you have 168 active raiders for the month of July?

Since you can't see any of the actual valuable data, I'll give you some quick numbers. This guild was formed in July, so although you are looking at our member/DKP chart and see a large number of members, they may only be showing up once for an initial invite/subsequent raid. They may also be blips in recording DKP data (which, coincidentally is not actually DKP but merely a system of tracking attendance.. the module just works out nice for our needs. Frankly I'd like to replace the module. Some of our starry-eyed coders might make it a project at some point.

Down to the nitty-gritty:

Half (50%) of the members on that list have less than 25% attendance. They are alts, utility characters, recruits who I mistakenly left off the batphone and consequently fell off the map for a while (oops!), members on break for real life reasons such as school, work contracts, trips across the country and/or getting married/anniversaries; people that want to raid but who haven't had the time since the change of pace for The Mystical Order.

65% of the members on that list attend 40% of raids or less. Again, members of TMO have interest in raiding and try to dedicate time each week to play. With different time zones, work schedules, and play styles the people who fit in this group may or may not see each other except in answering a batphone or upon scheduling a raid to Sky or any of the other events that TMO chooses to hold with it's members such as trivia games or PvP tournaments (these are just starting up since everyone is settled in and happy enough with the people around them but still bloodthirsty enough to knock each other around for a bit). That 65% block of players doesn't always have a chance to interact in game but our forums tend to have a lot of activity and we still interact as a guild that way.

As a whole the entire list of players that everyone outside of The Mystical Order poke fun at comprises of people who value this game but also have real lives. When they can, these players are coming together under our system and working with our strings of raid leaders to accomplish a goal. Quite a few have referenced the fact that they are just happy to play, and we're happy to provide a good atmosphere for that.

Sometimes public records are a very flat means of looking at things, aren't they?

[Versus]

Stop making sense Aadill, this is not the place for that.

[Shiftin]

I understand where you're coming from aadill, we don't remove every inactive from our DKP page for ease of record keeping if they come back either. People are getting their numbers from the fact that 95 people show as having attended a raid in the last 4 days, and over 100 in the last weeek. I don't think it's representative of your regular raid force, but it's still a metric F-ton of people.

[Aadill]

Originally Posted by Shiftin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

in the last 4 days

3 of those days were a weekend. I would suspect higher attendance during the day and drunkeness at night. I'm pretty sure that's what we all got.

EDIT: Personally, I have 44% lifetime attendance since I joined DA over a year ago. I have the exact same percentage in TMO. My lifestyle leaves me that sort of playtime not just for batphones but general play... not much. I'd say a lot of the players in our guild are in a very similar boat (65%!) I work all week and do things at night and take a bit of a rest to play some EQ on the weekends where it's been too effing hot to be outside (pretty much the whole nation has been in this boat... EDIT: teehee I'm referring to the US sorry Euros. I forgot some people think we aren't the center of the world. GO AMURIKA).

[Vendar]

said it before, will say it again.

fix /guildwar

fix the problem.

if a third guild snakes the kill while TMO/TR are fighting, good job to guild3

the end.



why so hard?

[Nazran]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Actually it was Stasis/Poison Dart Frogs who broke the raid calender [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Absolutely...

I was just saying... 'also... ktf is fuvkers'