Asking a favor from the two top guilds on the server - Page 40

quido · #**391** 03-26-2013, 04:50 PM

And it's not even about the gear - I just say that because it demonstrates the true breadth of my experience. I leveled a bard to 60 in December and January - Bruce to 60 a year before that - and despite having an epic on Redonk, I haven't nearly fulfilled my bardly aspirations. Loraen, do you really need ask what keeps us here? It's obvious. We love this game, we love the community, and it's fucking fun. I'm sorry that what we have here isn't exactly your cup of tea, but you seem to enjoy it in your own right. I'm sorry it's not exactly as your remember a dozen years ago. What keeps me here is wanting to be a badass in new ways. If I need to sleep, I sleep. Sometimes I press my limits but I've done that my whole life and I never played an MMO until this server. It's not the outrageous chore you people make it out to be - it's wonderful being a part of this guild and this server. Maybe you should start your own server if this one isn't exactly like you want. I'm not saying we shouldn't strive for some positive change, but if you think there's ever going to be an overall relaxed sense of competition here, you're dreaming.

If you want something.... TAKE IT!

Ravager · #**392** 03-26-2013, 05:01 PM

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A+ thread.

2) you were on a hand holding rotation server where no competition existed and as such no reason for batphones or mob tracking existed.

People keep saying this as if it's a bad thing. If there were any way to do a legitimate poll I'd bet that the people who like the "competition" on this server are the vast minority and that the majority would rather have "rotations and hand holding".

pharmakos · #**393** 03-26-2013, 05:29 PM

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kill the king,
save the world

"To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox; whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies."

-VALIS, Philip K Dick

Splorf22 · #**394** 03-26-2013, 05:36 PM

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Loraen, do you really need ask what keeps us here? It's obvious. We love this game, we love the community, and it's fucking fun. I'm sorry that what we have here isn't exactly your cup of tea, but you seem to enjoy it in your own right.

You are missing my point completely. I am not saying anyone who gets a Phara Dar item has won the game and should delete their character and ride off into the sunset. What I am asking is why you guys are still so competitive about content that was originally released 13 years ago and 2 years ago on this server. It's gone beyond getting a character with (almost) BiS gear, now the Alpha Gamers have to have 3+. What baffles me is why it's so important to you to contest every boss mob. I'm guessing you have killed or attempted to kill trakanon over 200 times. Why aren't you even a little bored with him, to the point where you wouldn't consider just playing a different game or something 1/8 weeks? I'm not even asking you to do this, I just don't understand why you wouldn't do it on your own, out of sheer boredom if nothing else.

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you were on a hand holding rotation server where no competition existed

Sirken, please don't try and BS me on this one. Mobs on live did not have a 96 hour variance, and this completely changes the game. Here on 1999 we have a server where a) 75% of the content is trivialized by invis/hide pulling and b) the compass is removed because it isn't classic yet c) we have non-classic variance which deliberately removes 2/3 of the population. I'd really like to see you try and explain this combination of factors rather than excoriate the players who don't want to play the batphone/poopsock game.

Stormhowl · #**395** 03-26-2013, 05:46 PM

The amount of animosity towards a cooperative environment is absolutely astonishing. What is wrong with people actually working together to accomplish something as a whole? This degree of competition on this server is frightening. It almost makes a man want to quit altogether knowing that at high end there won't even be a possibility, nay, opportunity, to see a dragon kill. Just to be able to experience it, because there's too much competition for "leet purplez"

I'm not saying competition is wrong. It has it's place in life, and just like everything else, it should be enjoyed in moderation. But once competition has become a poison, a cancer on this server, it needs to be removed. Classic mind-set be damned.

nebulus · #**396** 03-26-2013, 05:57 PM

What's stopping Divinity or any other guild from showing up at raid targets and competing for fte? I bet the top guilds would be more receptive to negotiations if more guilds made their presence felt.

finalgrunt · #**397** 03-26-2013, 05:59 PM

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What's stopping Divinity or any other guild from showing up at raid targets and competing for fte? I bet the top guilds would be more receptive to negotiations if more guilds made their presence felt.

Technically? Variance. Not a zerg guild. Not enough bought accounts to camp at a target's feet.
Morally? FTE snipe is not classic. It's only a way to bend the rules on this server. It's not raiding.

Ravager · #**398** 03-26-2013, 06:06 PM

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What's stopping Divinity or any other guild from showing up at raid targets and competing for fte? I bet the top guilds would be more receptive to negotiations if more guilds made their presence felt.

Because in recent history, before this thread was started, the big guilds leap-frogged and steamrolled Divinity when they were present.

Tierael · #**399** 03-26-2013, 06:16 PM

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My bard, my second alt, isn't even VP keyed. My monk doesn't have a bracer or shoulders from sky along with anything from VP except for a bostaff. I don't own a Dragon Hero Bracer and would like one for my main. Jeremy is short a piece from PD too. I never really figured you guys believed that PD-geared down to the 4th alt crap.

Call me a hater or whatever, I'm just trying to keep it real with you guys here. You're trying to turn a banana into an apple. Get some realistic proposals.

I gave a realistic proposal, but BDA can't be any part of it in your eyes :\

xarzzardorn · #**400** 03-26-2013, 06:19 PM

Loraen, believe it or not, new people join TMO all the time. You have spent this entire thread shitting on the people who sold you a VP key so that you could see VP or loot weapons with -1 delay or whatever. How would you like it if I told you you're a fucking idiot who starts a 1-man circlejerk every time you post? How many times can you charm a mob and pray until you get tired of it?