Bob's Perfect World- A wall of text regarding the raid scene on P99

[Lazortag]

If it isn't so draining, why doesn't every other raid capable guild do it? Just because you have no life outside of the game doesn't mean it's easy for every other guild to be able to take shifts tracking mobs. At this point you probably wouldn't get enough people willing to waste that much time in any single guild aside from TR/TMO. It's also entirely irrelevant that you spread the 48 hours (this is an average, by the way - sometimes it's more, and this is only for one raid mob) amongst your guildies - that's still 48 hours of time completely wasted, and I think you can understand why other guilds shouldn't be expected to make that same sacrifice just for the possibility of pixels. It's important that I emphasize that this is done so that you can get a chance at a raid mob - it's not even guaranteed, so all that time (which for a lot of people really is a huge time commitment) might just be for nothing. That's not fun at all, that's not classic, and like Skope said it hasn't made the server any healthier.

edit: also, Aadill, it's kind of ludicrous to argue that casual guilds would have LESS of a chance of their members completing their epics if there were some kind of rotation, since these guilds would be getting more mobs than before. Don't act like the current ruleset somehow empowers the less hardcore players.

[Mcbard]

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

If it isn't so draining, why doesn't every other raid capable guild do it? Just because you have no life outside of the game doesn't mean it's easy for every other guild to be able to take shifts tracking mobs. At this point you probably wouldn't get enough people willing to waste that much time in any single guild aside from TR/TMO. It's also entirely irrelevant that you spread the 48 hours (this is an average, by the way - sometimes it's more, and this is only for one raid mob) amongst your guildies - that's still 48 hours of time completely wasted, and I think you can understand why other guilds shouldn't be expected to make that same sacrifice just for the possibility of pixels. It's important that I emphasize that this is done so that you can get a chance at a raid mob - it's not even guaranteed, so all that time (which for a lot of people really is a huge time commitment) might just be for nothing. That's not fun at all, that's not classic, and like Skope said it hasn't made the server any healthier.

edit: also, Aadill, it's kind of ludicrous to argue that casual guilds would have LESS of a chance of their members completing their epics if there were some kind of rotation, since these guilds would be getting more mobs than before. Don't act like the current ruleset somehow empowers the less hardcore players.

Ya dude, I have no life. Nobody who tracks does. Great generalization. It couldn't just perhaps be that the time you see as "wasted" is just what we consider doing business. Most of us literally have no other reason to play our characters, do you understand this? I would rather spend 5 hours tracking a mob and surfing the web then I would 5 hours logged on my main camping some item for platinum, because above all else, I would rather spend time in this game killing dragons. Not playing an alt or sitting in EC tunnel. I guess you don't understand this.

A rotation negatively impacts people in the guilds already getting mobs because now they get to kill them, or at least have the chance to kill them a whole lot less. That's why your idea doesn't work, it doesn't benefit everybody. It only benefits those who don't want to spend time tracking mobs currently. End of story.

In regards to it not being classic, I agree, variance isn't classic but neither is the P99 playerbase.

Really any debating about it further is just sending us in circles. I understand that you A) want to kill dragons, and B) don't want to spend anytime tracking them. You don't seem to understand that your idea doesn't A) benefit everyone, and B) isn't "more classic" then what we currently have, so I don't see how it's a relevant solution.

Edit: To answer your first question btw: simply put because they don't want to and it's not what they enjoy? The reward isn't worth the effort they would need to put in. That's not how they enjoy the game. Same reason I'm not leveling an alt all day.