My proposal for Raiding guilds and GMs of P1999

[Akame]

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

I think you are missing the point we are making.

We play to enjoy the classic EQ content and experience. None of us are still college kids, living single with only ourselves to take care of. We have jobs, families and other responsibilities.

With the current state of affairs it is near impossible to raid and experience classic EQ content unless you spend all your life camping/waiting for this 11 year old content to spawn.

Thus why i suggest creating a second server that has a GM enforced raid rotation to accommodate those players that are like myself. It is not to say that a mob spawns that it is "guaranteed" to go to a guild but a guild will be "guaranteed" a chance to do the content before another guild(s) are allowed.

A Second server isn't the answer, but something is definitely wrong if first in force isn't working. I play to enjoy the game too and I certainly intend to raid when I hit 50, an I also intend to not play like I have too much time on my hands either.

So let me see if I understand it right by all these threads here. (my at a glance view of the raiding on this server by all the complaints and commentary on these forums) The real complaint is DA has the numbers to always have first in force in every raid zone at all times to have first shot at every raid mob as it spawns, however, they're able to monopolize said spawns (at least potentially) because there is no weekly downtime to reset the timers like there used to be in classic? So in order to combat said competition other guilds (namely at least IB) is having to camp things as well, in order to have a shot at said mobs too.

Do I have the right of it?

Also...
Things that have been ruled out as not an option:

No second server: not enough dev man power or will
No simulated patch day: I recall one dev saying it was because this created exposure for exploiters and was never going to be an option
Self policed FFA: Apparently there are more jerks now than there used to be 10 years ago so self policing is not an option.


You can tell me if I'm hot so far.