Stop the Socking

[Lazie]

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

Racing does not work without maps, guidelines, starting points, qualifiers, fraps, evidence gathering, and a large neckbeardy roster who can have people waiting at the starting point for the 16 hrs.

Most of these concerns again are false and just more ways you invent to disparage the idea. It really doesn't make sense either because the problems you seem to be trying to invent are largely problems you have to face with CotHing.

1. You have 1 tracker outside the racers. You don't need a map. This is better than the current CotH'ing as you have less people near spawns.
2. You don't need fraps or evidence gathering. 2 racers from a guild is easy to follow and police without headaches.
3. Reduce variance. Also waiting at the starting point is the same as being ready to CotH for 16 hours. Again seems like you are describing the problems with what we currently have.. not what we could have. Although it has been said many times...put lower variance into your proposal.
4. Starting points already exist with CotH'ing.

I will make another point because I have seen you post something a few times now. We in TMO have strategies faster than CotHing that doesn't involve CotH ducking. CotHing was never very innovative or appealing to us to ever do because competition that is fair to everyone is what most of us desire. We chose not to implement strategies to this point to push this to even further extremes. I just want you to personally know this was never an "Arms race". We can turn it into that whenever we choose. Yet we don't. Because we hope common sense eventually wins out.