Stop the Socking

[Daldaen]

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

I remember when all the raids were done one week except an FFA talendor. He had something like 2 hours left in window. Was a bard race (from the OT ramp area) and everyone seemed to enjoy that. No real cheating in that, no autofire, and not nearly as much work as chain ducking a COTH. Just a straight jaunt to the mob. Still don't see why this couldn't work.

Remember FFA Inny when he was in the last 30 minutes of his window and that was a complete train clusterfuck? Even the one last week was a clusterfuck. So bad that TMO didn't try to attempt a second time after wiping.

Goes both ways, just depends on the mob.

As I stated earlier, I'm not opposed to something that gets rid of socking and CotHing.

Your foot race idea is all good and well. But your very own guild officer complains about how more rules is bad and reduces creativity. Is he opposed to it?

Would it work to reduce poopsocking, ideally, yes. But that's lots of new rules and starting places everyone has to agree to and abide by. Which can be harder to police. Could screenshot or FRAPs every "race start" to make sure you've got everyone present and accounted for I suppose.

Even still - VS and Trak, I dunno how you will foot race those. And those are the two biggest socks currently, which is the issue. You can't just create rules the avoid the two biggest problems.

Could do that, 2 taggers and 1 tracker (non-mage) in zone. Set up some starting lines... Agree to no gating or evaccing. I'd say any Runspeed (lawyerquesting about someone trying to spirit of scale and skirt the rules or something dumb like that can just be avoided). Then figure out how to handle VS / Trak.

Write it up and post it up. If it's streamlined, logical, and is going to remove poopsocks and reduce stupid day long variances. I will likely be behind it. I'm sure plenty of Class R guilds would be too.

C/R with full FFA respawns however solves that with no new rules, separates C and R during respawn windows since that seems to cause bad blood, fosters more legit competition/race in form of a respawn (race is actually mobilizing people and not just who can target and has the best jav click), keeps Class R guilds getting their same number of spawns since that's a high concern for everyone here it appears.

I was most in favor of no respawns and just repops so that tracking and poopsocking were both removed in a single swoop... No one has fun hitting track or staring for a 16 hour window. Getting an earthquake and going off to the races however is fun.

[Widan]

I can't believe people shit talk Red when you have threads like this on the general forums. The worst part is none of you seem to have any self awareness of how embarrassing this all is.