Back in my day, Xev was relatively decent at the top/mid guilds coordinating amongst each other to reserve raid spawns in advance (on the "server" forums), so they'd all stand a better chance of rallying their guilds for a reason. It was Nash's equilibrium kind of thing, where the best possible outcome was if everyone worked toward their own goals as well as the goals of others. There'd be outliers that screwed it up, of course, but they'd be snowballed by every other guild that participated until they got with the program. That scheme only works if the spawns are relatively predictable. In my mind, less predictability is more role play, more predictability is more practical.
For Rogean's sake, I think the fire wouldn't have started if he'd been clear that this was not just a mistake, but a temporary one right at the start. ;-) Case in point, it still hasn't been said explicitly that this change is temporary.
Last point is it seems there's a lot of people who assume the server design is a democratic process (community rules). I've seen no such statement, however, and would hope that isn't the case. While nilbog and Rogean are obviously trying to make it the best possible play experience, design by committee produces crap. I'd rather they do what they feel is best. (BTW, keep up the awesome huge work you put into it, guys! I'm impressed, even when I find a few minor "not quite right" things in my adventures.)
My 2c.
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03-05-2013, 03:03 PM
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