Alternatives to variance to increase competition (veterans and relevant only)

[Chuck_still_a_virgin]

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

How about this alternative:

Log in, Recruit, plvl new recruits, discourage people from rolling classes you can't gear b/c of lack of raid mobs. How tough is it to get n epic for a monk/rog/clr toss then some planar and resist jewelry and they are about as good as they need to be.

Because none of this matters. If Lite recruited 100 new players and had them geared to the teeth, his guild would monopolize all of the raid mobs. Everyone from Nihilum would jump ship and join Lite's guild. They would be the ones killing every raid mob in the game on the same day in the same exact order every week. Then we'd have the same problem with a different guild name. The problem is that with no variance, it will always revert back to the mean.