Rooted Dragons and FTE foot races. Failed experiments

[Nuggie]

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

My understanding is that the smaller guilds were gaming the rotation because Guild A could not muster a force within the agreed-upon window of time, and received help from Guild B, and then Guild B did the same with Guild A (or a Guild C -- whoever could help), and all somehow still had individual places in the rotation.

Which, during discussions leading to and directly after the announcement of the Class C/R/FFA system, was the loophole the Class C guilds threatened to use with their Class R alts to stick it back to Class R for taking a subset of their pixels.

From the perspective of a small guild person: what Zanderr said + the guild(s?) that set up the "entrance to tier" gatekeeper mobs were big enough to justify being in the Class C group, but didn't want to compete. So they could lord over the small guilds. Similar to a 6th grade kid in the 3rd grade playground area. So they were similarly gaming the system, in that regard. Then got mad and threw a fit when they couldn't make all the 3rd graders do exactly what they wanted. The 6th grader ended up competing with the 3rd graders, regardless of making a claim to not wanting to compete in the first place.

Regardless of all this drama between 3rd and 6th graders, the "Age of the Class System" was the time where I had the most fun on P99. I feel bad for the guild leaders that had to sift through the bullshit on the daily to keep the wheels turning.

Taking a trip down memory lane is interesting. All the things that can be dusted off with a little help.