Ruining EQ

[Sadiki]

sigh

Neither group of people enjoy the rules, but both parties knew them, and only one abided by them. I'd hope Sirken would intervene if our officers were doing that too. Waiting around for a 12 hour window for CSG to violate the rule and report them, then knowingly breaking the rule afterwards hoping you won't caught... this is the kind of stuff this server does not need. I don't understand the need to generate all this toxicity and hate. I would go out of my way to respond to every request for help on Lord Bob targets, be cordial with everyone, now I am berated constantly and lies are spread just because I'm AG tagged. The second A/A got banned, the strategy to get targets went from getting along to rulebreaking and petitionquesting. I don't get it. I guess an established 5 year old alliance taking down a mob they almost never get to kill is a crime, for some reason, because someone said it is.

CSG left targets up despite members wanting to raid them, including classic/Kunark mobs, WToV, Ikiatar, Lady N, and triplets. We didn't raid for an entire day of a ban just so we would abide by the raid rule that you can't be in NToV during the Lady M spawn. All we were focused on was attempting Vulak. It's difficult to negotiate targets to anyone the instant a ban hits, and it's unrealistic to randomly give up the first Vulak of a 20 day ban to the force that needed help with Wuoshi and has failed to kill several other easier targets. Two potential quakes could happen at any time, Vulak was just sitting there, and is a very rare opportunity for us that we know we can succeed at (well, eventually, that raid didn't go too well). CSG is mostly full of bright eyed casuals as well. It's really easy to get outraged over everything without thinking about the situation, and it's worse when you are being fed lies constantly from haters. CSG isn't attempting to contest most of the mobs that people are screaming we were forming up to steal. Lady M however is different, and we did nothing for like 20 hours just to not violate a silly rule so we could kill her.

I hope people can be level headed and maybe start getting along at some point... but I'm not betting on it. Instant-outrage culture is just too prevalent nowadays.