TMO declares Gorenaire an endangered species!

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

I said most, not all.

However, most of the fantasy scenarios that people wish of the raiding scene are just as unlikely.

Wanting non-rotations but want hours to engage.

Wanting to have other guilds back off just because you were the first to port a group to the zone. (how is this any different than snagging FTE?)

Wanting shots at mobs without a variance, without poopsocking and without having to log in randomly.

There are a great deal of things people want that either have bad consequences or just aren't well thought out.

They are only unlikely because people/players refuse to behave civilly towards one another. It's an "I want my pixels NAOW" mentality. There will, and have been, times when every guild was fairly beaten to a mob/zone, and the other guild leapfrogged them. Nilbog said its a dick move, but since it is still within the server rules, its allowed to happen. The only thing unreasonable about a more civil raid environment is the parties involved, all of us, refuse to act as such.

And Geigue does not champion the idea of "zero variance". He champions the idea of "all 7-day mobs on the same variance, so they all pop at the same time". He, and others, realize that variance in some capacity is a necessary evil to this top-heavy server, but by forcing competing forces to pick their targets, instead of having them pop one at a time, will allow different guilds to mobilize for different targets. At least that's how I understand the "simulated patch day" (hereafter SPD) pop philosophy, please correct me if I'm wrong Giegue. He also admits that a large portion of the mobs would still go to the top tier guild(s), but by focusing on a single target, or a few select targets, the smaller guild(s) could kill their focused targets while the top guild(s) focus theirs and cannot divert resources to the other targets.

Going over your list again:

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

Wanting non-rotations but want hours to engage. -- SPD does not give you more time than your competition allows, but forces guilds to focus on desired targets

Wanting to have other guilds back off just because you were the first to port a group to the zone. (how is this any different than snagging FTE?) -- SPD would encourage guilds to not compete so that the early targets are slain faster so they can move onto the next target

Wanting shots at mobs without a variance, without poopsocking and without having to log in randomly. -- SPD still has variance, and people will still have to log in randomly, just not ALL the time, but ALL at once