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[Bruman]

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

You are mistaken. The goal was to decrease petitions.

That's what Sirken wants. Not what Rogen wants (well, I'm sure he wants that too, but that's not the sole thing). The server staff is not in unanimous agreement about the goals, which is what caused a lot of headache during the discussions.

From Rogean:
http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=131586

It continues to be an aggravating realization among CSR staff that 10% of the server population causes 90% of the problems. We are all for competition, but it needs to be fair competition. We are also all here for the same thing, to experience classic Everquest. The same guild monopolizing raid content for 2 years that they might not even need anymore is ridiculous, just to block other guilds from the chance of gearing up to take on the same end game content.

I was thinking to myself the other day and I came to ask myself.. Are we providing this server to give people the arena to compete to such bitter extremes that it has resorted to taking every absolute measure to be victorious, or are we here to provide a classic Everquest experience for everyone to enjoy?

A lot of you make fun of it in your own terms, but it really does come down to fighting over very old content.

Either way, we're tired of the constant bickering, the training, the ninja looting, and all the other bullshit that's going on. So here's what we're going to do.

Starting today and then evaluated when Velious is released the CSR staff will be keeping track of how the raid guilds are treating eachother. If we do not see a significant improvement in the behavior of the raiding guilds and how they treat eachother, Velious will be released without raid content. To be clear, we want an enjoyable raid scene for everyone, not just one or two guilds. This means working together to figure out a compromise when racing for mobs, and working with smaller guilds to let them have a chance at mobs you don't absolutely need for gearing main characters.

(emphasis mine)

Again - the server staff does not agree on things.

[Argh]

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

That's what Sirken wants. Not what Rogen wants (well, I'm sure he wants that too, but that's not the sole thing). The server staff is not in unanimous agreement about the goals, which is what caused a lot of headache during the discussions.

Again - the server staff does not agree on things.

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

Starting today and then evaluated when Velious is released the CSR staff will be keeping track of how the raid guilds are treating eachother. If we do not see a significant improvement in the behavior of the raiding guilds and how they treat eachother, Velious will be released without raid content. To be clear, we want an enjoyable raid scene for everyone, not just one or two guilds. This means working together to figure out a compromise when racing for mobs, and working with smaller guilds to let them have a chance at mobs you don't absolutely need for gearing main characters.

FTFY

[Uteunayr]

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

FTFY

Yeah, this was stupid. Nothing about the casual side necessitates not racing, and not competing. Casual guilds can race and can compete, but they don't want to do it with TMO/FE/IB, and perhaps not even with BDA (without some limitations imposed due to size), because they want to have more friendly competition amongst themselves and have the ability to actually race and compete for mobs with more than a snowball's chance in hell. Rogean's Plan accommodated that, and it permitted the casuals to race and to have a chance at mobs amongst themselves, while letting hardcores race and fight over their own share of mobs. But apparently having 3 mobs a day, every day, for every month, was too little for the hardcore guilds to get behind, because the casual guilds would get 1 a week if they were lucky.