What happened to all of the guilds on Blue, and what is Fuse?

[Ennewi]

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

I haven't raided on blue in years but I don't see the fun in sending 100+ people to kill a target. BDA and Taken used to do it for Trakanon (saw 120 a few times) pre-Velious. Mob dies in under 10 seconds.

Did you have fun? Did you get a realistic shot at any loot? lmaooo

There's still fun to be had, even just in terms of "can it be done", pushing class roles to their limit. BiS knights tanking Vyemm and Vulak, for example. Bards tanking Aary. Wizards deleting Sontalak.

It was actually harder to accomplish raid tasks as CSG, a zerg by most accounts, because with that many players, a few aren't going to be paying attention and others aren't going to follow directions well, if at all. Some would push Vulak incorrectly, right into a wall or corner, preventing the interrupt. Others would turn VS, push Iki over the tank only for them to be backstabbed, etc. In certain ways, raiding is easier with a leaner force.

But whether a guild is big or small, raid loot has always been just a matter of time, which these servers have offered far more of than classic did. Smaller guilds will see less opportunities at the hardest targets and BiS, so they also don't have the most realistic shot at specific loot; for larger guilds, the opposite holds true, with harder targets being killed more regularly, but the loot itself being divvied out among more players, requiring greater personal investment to obtain x, y, z.

[cd288]

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

Fuse is what happens when you take the top two raiding guilds and put them together. Before that, they had a longstanding respect for each other and would team up against Freedom/Vanquish and often for other select encounters. Officers are a mix of Riot and Kittens with Arcler as the leader.

Fuse has picked up other quality raiders and is open to new applicants.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=440094

I wouldn’t say Fuse teamed up to dominate the content. Kittens would occasionally sock for natural respawns but Riot would reliably. On quakes Riot would get a lot of content but Kittens easily was getting the 2nd most kills. I was never an officer or Kittens but have been an active raider with them for years and have enjoyed hanging out with Riot pals under a shared tag with a mix of our cultures.

Or listen to what Samoht and Swish say, lol. Clearly, the elder statemen of P99…

yeah Riot would consistently sock natural spawns more, but on quakes it was virtually equal. And Kittens was starting to be able to take draft targets that Riot normally didn't have to compete on.

[Ennewi]

Originally Posted by Teddie1056 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm still sad that <Vanquish> went with that instead of my idea: <REGULATORS>

Could have shouted "REGULATORS! Mount up." Whenever we entered a zone.

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

Still would have been Vanquish.

Vanquished. And all because of an inability or unwillingness to self-regulate.

[Tewaz]

The GMs refused to change natural respawn meta in the years after Vanquish quit so the #2 guild who competed in Fear only on natural respawns joined the #1 guild when their numbers began to wane post Quarm/THJ/Pantheon launches.

Magically, this move woke the GMs up to try different metas. This was the 16th year of CSR doing too little too late on the Project 1999 Blue server.

[kjs86z2]

Riot was a mistake right at the get go. Guild should have been called CorPSe as it was a merge of Core and Paradiggum Shit.

Fuse is another bland title...im sure ratclaw hands Arcler cooked it up.

By the way, is that nasally little carebear still at 99% RA?

[Ataxio]

Zergling guild that's worse then TMO or doljo ever was. Have had the worst experince with <Fuse> across the board since they formed. Easily worst folks going all the way back to 2013. On one had I like them being contained in one place. On the other, I don't like being trained by them over and over and am not a fan of the smarmy holier then thou attitudes that seem common amongst them.

That being said a small fraction of them are nice folks. Many such cases.

[Andyman1022]

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Riot was a mistake right at the get go. Guild should have been called CorPSe as it was a merge of Core and Paradiggum Shit.

Fuse is another bland title...im sure ratclaw hands Arcler cooked it up.

By the way, is that nasally little carebear still at 99% RA?

Take a shower.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Castle on Green has the same strategy. They team up with Safe Space, and their combined raid forces can be from 120-150 people, depending on the target.

Meanwhile, they are the least successful, despite this. Because there's still good competition on Green. When Castle becomes the ONLY raid force in town, Green officially dies

Ah yes, the ol' cycle:

Guild 1 gets some raid targets
Guild 2 attempts to compete
Guild 2 realizes its a numbers meta
Guild 2 merges or partners with Guild 3
Guild 2/3 gets some raid targets
Guild 1 makes fun of them for being a zerg
Guild 1 realizes its a numbers meta
Guild 1 merges or partners with Guild 4
Guild 2/3 makes fun of them for being a zerg
.
.
.
etc

[Teddie1056]

<Fuse> broke the mold, though, Yendor.

Guild 1 got most of the raid targets.
Guild 2 got some others.
Guild 3 started building steam.
Guild 1 and 2 merged to make the largest guild in server history just to beat Guild 3.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Teddie1056 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

<Fuse> broke the mold, though, Yendor.

Guild 1 got most of the raid targets.
Guild 2 got some others.
Guild 3 started building steam.
Guild 1 and 2 merged to make the largest guild in server history just to beat Guild 3.

It seems to me that most Kittens members didn't even want to merge. It was just certain officers and high RA folks who didn't like not getting 100% of targets. So they ruin what is quite possibly Blue's longest standing guild to merge with Riot...