I should add, there's lots of solutions to the problem.
If we have to have raid rules (which I think are stupid anyway), lockouts seems to be the best way to do it. Lockouts reward massive guilds who can kill fast. Lockouts reward small guilds who don't need the infrastructure and roster to support live engages.
Lockouts are rife for being stupidly optimised by autists however. So removing as much of the bullshit as possible like illusion swaps, windstriker cheese, slowing people down so they're susceptible to npc's in VP. Lockouts were never perfect, but they could be as close to perfect as we've ever seen.
I'd even add that lockout racing that races only ever start every 6 minutes. So you have 5min59sec to get logged in, sow, prepared on a toon to watch 30 elves all yeeting at whatever random mob. That would be gold. Make it super casual friendly for the most casual dad spec EQ to still get lucky.
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