Is the UN a way to reduce GM workload or a GM enforced Mafia? [Green]

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

I am unbiased as I don't play on green, but I am curious about this general question.

My understanding was that GMs enforce player-made agreements. So, if guilds A, B, and C (the UN) made an agreement to do a Sky rotation, and then guild B showed up during guild A's slot, a GM would enforce the player-made agreement between these guilds.

However, guild D is not part or party to any of the agreements between A, B, and C. So there is no agreement here for a GM to enforce.

Yes? No?

Theoretically but the guild in question, Lineage, has not been in any way prepared to go toe-to-toe with ST or Fed on this content so it doesn't really matter. And this is why guild stay in the UN, they'd prefer to get some slots in sky than to end up on the outside looking in like Lineage.

If a guild that had the power and determination to actually snipe significant content were to buck the UN and go rogue that would be interesting. But that's not where we are and isn't about to change. Kunark will see a bigger shakeup in how these guilds all interact on the whole, since it will all be contested long window repop targets, rather than the current classic planar trash clears which everyone is motivated to rotate and share.

Another issue though is what was seen both in Fear early on and in Sky recently with Lineage trying to force their way in, it just became a DPS race on stupid trash mobs at their spawn point while expecting GM's to study each mob's identifier and look at the server log to verify who got the FTE. Which is absurd to expect of them. I assume that's related to Galach's quote about letting him know for any issues, the issues would be KS'ing each other on sky trash.