Thought Experiment: How Could Rotations Be Competitive?

[Reiwa]

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

Then why have this system at all? I guess I don't understand your point. If your idea is "the winner gets the mob", then that is just normal Everquest without rotations lol.

Because the topic of the thread is how to make rotations competitive. Not the specific details of the rotation itself.

Keep up, son. 😎🍦

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

Because the topic of the thread is how to make rotations competitive. Not the specific details of the rotation itself.

Keep up, son. ����

LOL true, if you just play Everquest without rotations, but say you are playing with rotations, then everybody is happy!

[Reiwa]

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

LOL true, if you just play Everquest without rotations, but say you are playing with rotations, then everybody is happy!

A qualified rotation is still a rotation.

Hammer out the rotation details on your own, I've answered the question.

It doesn't have to be Sontalak even, tier gatekeepers would fine if staff felt like doing 2 or 3 instead of 1.

[Grumph]

How to make rotations competitive?

Simple.

Rotate competitve metas.

Rooted. Unrooted.

Coth. Footrace. Dps race. Guild war.

Thats 8 options right there. More maybe possible.

Keep guilds and players on their toes. Shake things up.

Everyone has so much fun they stop complaining. And since meta constantly changes, loosing isnt so bitter bc you have to try something new next time anyway.

[Ooloo]

Reiwa is a giant retard, although he's very good at it (being a huge retard)

[Ooloo]

Here's my impression of reiwa: "Well how can you know until you do??" *link link link link*

Checkmate.

[loramin]

Great conversation and theorycrafting, I love it!

However, gatekeeping just to "keep out the plebs" doesn't seem healthy on its own. What if (say) the raid mobs were split in half, and each week/month/quake/whatever one half was gate-kept by who killed that half last period? Maybe you have to have killed at least two (or three, or whatever) mobs.

For instance, let's say Vulak and Naggy are A mobs and and Dozekar and Vox are B mobs. Seal Team kills Vulak and Naggy this period, so next period they (and any other guild that killed 2+ A mobs) can kill the A mobs; anyone who didn't, can't ... let's say Castle in this example. But, Castle can kill B mobs, and they want access to the "B rotation" next time, so they kill two of them.

This would create an interesting dynamic when a quake happens: do you race to get your two kills in the A group, so you have access to 100% of the A mobs next period? Or do you race to get the mobs you "locked in" in the B group ... because they aren't exclusive to you, and other B guilds could take them if you don't?

Now the gatekeeping seems to add something interesting to the equation, and it seems like it would create situations where smaller guilds like Castle would have opportunities created by the bigger guilds "playing the game".

[Jibartik]

I have an idea.

Start a guild that's made up of people who's sole purpose is to grief raiding guilds, and whoever can actually succeed at downing a mob while that guild exists, gets to down the mob.

[Fammaden]

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

I have an idea.

Start a guild that's made up of people who's sole purpose is to grief raiding guilds, and whoever can actually succeed at downing a mob while that guild exists, gets to down the mob.

This is the current system we already have.

[Jibartik]

If we make a pvp teams server I want a comitment from you folks to help me make an all halfling cleric guild that can naked DA raid greif everyone to quitting.