Someone Translate this wall of text from Omni

[Legday]

LORAMIN FROStSEER

Lmk when you see it.

[Mead]

Every live server I played on required competition to obtain pixels.

Sorry you aren't reliving your classic experience? You seem to be in the minority of servers that had rotations.

Hopefully Rogean doesn't ruin the server with rotations.

No response needed, thanks.

[smellis]

skimming through, i gotta appreciate how hard loramin went on this one.

just admit the frustration of this server keeps it interesting enough. if you weren't complaining about p99 what else would you do? you could be doing that right now

[Fammaden]

While its very fun and totally not a rehash to see a dozen people argue with Loramin about instancing and rotations, the original post never mentions such a thing at all.

The questions posed were simply: are the raid rules outdated and unenforceable? And if so what ruleset could be devised where current staffing could in fact manage enforcement? If not enough staff for any set of rules, why are there still rules?

[Chardy]

I don't understand the mental gymnastics people play when it comes to experiencing raid content and getting pixels for their toons in p99. It's the same as it was 20 years ago.

Do you want a chance at obtaining raid pixels? Join a raiding guild.

Not getting enough of what you want because your raid guild is constantly reliant on teaming up with another guild? Join a self-sufficient raiding guild.

Is your raid guild still getting routinely beat out? Are you still not happy with your lot in Elf sim, and want to see more content, and have a more regular chance at getting those pixels? Join a more successful guild. It's literally that easy (unless you have a major personality disorder, or can't navigate through basic, every day social interactions.)

Be proactive about your personal experience instead of expecting other people to change their behavior to suit you, or you'll be chronically disappointed and upset.

Oh, RnF, sorry....REEEE!

[Dagner]

The elusiveness of not knowing what raid mob each guild is going to get every week, the ability to contest and attempt to kill each raid mob every week, the opportunity to potentially get that one item each week, is what keeps the majority of p99'ers logging in each week. Its what differentiates EQ from most games.

Force a rotation and I'd wager to bet the average daily server population takes a large tumble after just a few weeks once folks get bored waiting for their turn. Take away the challenge and we all might as well just play on one of the modded servers.

[Erati]

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

The elusiveness of not knowing what raid mob each guild is going to get every week, the ability to contest and attempt to kill each raid mob every week, the opportunity to potentially get that one item each week, is what keeps the majority of p99'ers logging in each week. Its what differentiates EQ from most games.

[Dman2701]

Omni's said nothing about rotations but about people continuing to break the rules.

Using AON's (so name and guild tag doesn't show) while they are training people
Intentionally mem blurring a mob so guild loses fte
Intentionally agroing and pulling a mob away that someone has fte on to cause that mob to leash
Dispelling a mob when slowed
Stalling a mob by taking a longer path allowing guild more time to log in for kill
Stalling a mob by cothing in 1 tank and 8 clerics and dealing no dps in the first minute of engage
Intentionally training pullers/coth bots in tov. (claiming accidental even though it happens every single time)
People constantly using rapidfire (see lodi, ring turn in,etc)
AFK tracking using /pet attack and gina triggers with a programmable keyboard

I think things like this is what he is talking about, not some type of welfare pixel hand out.

[Convict]

yeah there is definitely some issues, but ToV itself is probably better now than it has been in a long time.

I think consumables right now, like idol camp and lucan (soulfires) are a bigger issue. Especially when guilds get a hold of it and don't let it go for days or even weeks at a time because there's no rules in place to prevent it.
Its kind of dumb that 1 guild can hold idol camp forever and just keep passing the camp off to themselves indefinitely in an effort to try and block their competition from getting idols and competing with them in ToV..... which is odd because I thought they liked competition? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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[Dman2701]

More quakes would solve a lot of problems on this server.
Casual guilds want a shot at mobs, quakes are your chance.
Maybe if guilds were scumbags to each other the GMs would bless us with more quakes. Crazy concept