Raiding Question- TMO

[Loly Taa]

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

"We worked hard" does not equal entitlement for dominating an entire server. As if EQ raids are even remotely challenging anyways lol. When Velious releases, the army of alts will just camp the whole of Velious instead of Kunark/Classic anyways, which is far from a healthy raid scene for an entire server.

With that said TMO are just players working within the rules of the server and they can't be faulted even if they dominate every camp of every spawn in every zone because it's how a completely non instanced game works. But because there are no other servers for people to raid on I believe this forces the devs hand into making a semi healthy raid scene because I can assure you it will be far from that come Velious.

I don't understand your logic on this. TMO is already not getting 100% of the mobs each week. Taken was able to kill Innoruuk the other day and that isn't the only recent instance of someone other than TMO killing a raid mob.

If Velious were released, there would be nearly 100% more raid mobs for the entire server, including ones on factions which we may or may not go after in the beginning.

Not to mention, if Velious were released I promise you we'd release our grip on VP and no longer defend that zone the way we do now.

Things will change if Velious comes, I challenge you to explain to me how it would not. If there's anyone who knows the strengths and weaknesses of TMO- it's me, and not only that- I can tell you we'd just say fuck the Classic and Kunark shit unless we had nothing left to do in Velious. Which in the beginning.. With the 3 entirely new armor sets that have to be farmed? I mean, did you ever even play Velious? Do you even know how much timesink it adds?

It's insane, it's massive. You can basically count me out of bothering to track things because I'll be gleefully running through the Plane of Mischief and zoning to Cobalt Scar when raids are called, which 90% of the time? Will be Velious raids.

[Splorf22]

"Perl is a great solution to a terrible problem" - Random usenix poster

Anyway I don't resent TMO for taking all the raid mobs they can; yall are the ones willing to batphone/poopsock and I'm not. What I resent is the system where batphoning/poopsocking is what decides who gets raid mobs.

[theguyy]

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

I don't understand your logic on this. TMO is already not getting 100% of the mobs each week. Taken was able to kill Innoruuk the other day and that isn't the only recent instance of someone other than TMO killing a raid mob.

If Velious were released, there would be nearly 100% more raid mobs for the entire server, including ones on factions which we may or may not go after in the beginning.

Not to mention, if Velious were released I promise you we'd release our grip on VP and no longer defend that zone the way we do now.

Things will change if Velious comes, I challenge you to explain to me how it would not. If there's anyone who knows the strengths and weaknesses of TMO- it's me, and not only that- I can tell you we'd just say fuck the Classic and Kunark shit unless we had nothing left to do in Velious. Which in the beginning.. With the 3 entirely new armor sets that have to be farmed? I mean, did you ever even play Velious? Do you even know how much timesink it adds?

It's insane, it's massive. You can basically count me out of bothering to track things because I'll be gleefully running through the Plane of Mischief and zoning to Cobalt Scar when raids are called, which 90% of the time? Will be Velious raids.

You don't have to get 100% of the mobs to be dominant.... The fact that infinite accounts can be made, PL'd/bought and instantly raid geared only makes matters worse and is completely unclassic. Something must be done, the question is what.

[Loly Taa]

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

You don't have to get 100% of the mobs to be dominant.... The fact that infinite accounts can be made, PL'd/bought and instantly raid geared only makes matters worse and is completely unclassic. Something must be done, the question is what.

From the things I've heard this question has already been pondered by nilbog himself and it's simply a matter of time until that problem is solved.

To be honest, I'd rather see more content for all of us to play. If TMO wanted Velious and no competition- we'd roll over to EQMac and roflstomp IB all over again.