any type of forced/required rotation is easy mode and has no place in EQ.
the only time when i will support any rotation system is when it is entirely created between players and guilds (like an in-game "treaty" between states). When that happens it is up to the community (i.e. not the GMs) to enforce violations and make examples and pariahs of offenders. Any GM involvement is NOT what EQ is about when it comes to these types of agreements.
poopsocking will stop (and, to some degree it already has) when the players get sick of it. when Kunark comes out it will probably start again with the big kunark/epic targets as bad as ever with vox and naggy. this is part of EQ.
poopsocking becomes increasingly harder to do when there are multiple valuable raid targets. eventually, in kunark, the "big winners" are not the poopsockers but the fast formers who can race for a spawn.
in any case, my opinion on the issue is that this is a community player issue and not a dev/gm one. the solution should not involve any official required rotation schedule imposed by the dev team.
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