Why is it so hard to get a group in Old Sebilis?

[Lhancelot]

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

Find a nice guild

Impossible. ^

I wish there were more choices for guilds.

All 2 of the starter guilds on p99 have crap names (I could never run around with that tag on my head) and all the raid guilds are full of greedy bloodsucking neckbeards.

I have found to enjoy raid guilds on P99 you have to have a ton of tolerance dealing with other people's BS. If you can manage that, you will be alright in a raid guild and should have np gobbling up some raid pixels.

[Grizzler]

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

Impossible. ^

I wish there were more choices for guilds.

All 2 of the starter guilds on p99 have crap names (I could never run around with that tag on my head) and all the raid guilds are full of greedy bloodsucking neckbeards.

I have found to enjoy raid guilds on P99 you have to have a ton of tolerance dealing with other people's BS. If you can manage that, you will be alright in a raid guild and should have np gobbling up some raid pixels.

I dunno. I have definitely been in a couple different guilds since starting on P99. I think I've finally found a good fit. Some of the others I have been in I would agree with your assessment but I think you can still find some viable options depending on your personality. I think some of the issues are also just the amount of folks who are not interested in meeting new people or teaching new people and just want hassle free pixels.

[Lhancelot]

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

I think you can still find some viable options depending on your personality. I think some of the issues are also just the amount of folks who are not interested in meeting new people or teaching new people and just want hassle free pixels.

I agree with this. A lot has to do with the player's personality and then the part you mention of wanting hassle free pixels aka greedy neckbeards. The only thing that matters to some is pixels.

[loramin]

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

Impossible. ^

I wish there were more choices for guilds.

All 2 of the starter guilds on p99 have crap names (I could never run around with that tag on my head) and all the raid guilds are full of greedy bloodsucking neckbeards.

I have found to enjoy raid guilds on P99 you have to have a ton of tolerance dealing with other people's BS. If you can manage that, you will be alright in a raid guild and should have np gobbling up some raid pixels.

I had this perspective too for awhile, but look: there are 12 casual/non-raid guilds in the wiki (and more that aren't in it), and you can't hate all their names right? There are also 9 non-A/A raid guilds, and if you haven't joined or grouped with several members of all nine of them you don't really know them right?

I played for years on this server without ever joining a guild. I got to level 60, got my Epic, etc. all without a guild. And then once I hit level 60 I finally decided to join a guild, and after I did I had one thought: why didn't I do this sooner!

Guilds on P99 are not just full of greedy neckbeards. Of course, everyone wants "pixels", because we are playing a game and that's what the game is about, but everyone is also a human being too. Try more guilds and I can all but guarantee you'll find some people you enjoy playing the game with (eg. Anonymous is a cool bunch .... and we're recruiting ... just saying ...)

P.S. On the "you have to have a ton of tolerance dealing with other people's BS", I think that's true of any human interaction whatsoever. While I admit guilds are more social than playing EQ solo, they're really not that much more social, and as long as you join a DKP guild and not a loot council one the most "BS" you'll have to tolerate is someone saying something stupid or offensive in guild chat every once in a blue moon.

[Lhancelot]

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

I had this perspective too for awhile, but look: there are 12 casual/non-raid guilds in the wiki (and more that aren't in it), and you can't hate all their names right? There are also 9 non-A/A raid guilds, and if you haven't joined or grouped with several members of all nine of them you don't really know them right?

I played for years on this server without ever joining a guild. I got to level 60, got my Epic, etc. all without a guild. And then once I hit level 60 I finally decided to join a guild, and after I did I had one thought: why didn't I do this sooner!

Guilds on P99 are not just full of greedy neckbeards. Of course, everyone wants "pixels", because we are playing a game and that's what the game is about, but everyone is also a human being too. Try more guilds and I can all but guarantee you'll find some people you enjoy playing the game with (eg. Anonymous is a cool bunch .... and we're recruiting ... just saying ...)

P.S. On the "you have to have a ton of tolerance dealing with other people's BS", I think that's true of any human interaction whatsoever. While I admit guilds are more social than playing EQ solo, they're really not that much more social, and as long as you join a DKP guild and not a loot council one the most "BS" you'll have to tolerate is someone saying something stupid or offensive in guild chat every once in a blue moon.

You know I actually socialize with more A/A people and some other higher tier players which is doesn't really make much sense seeing I am unguilded and I also do not enjoy raiding or the lvl 60 activities.

I understand your point. I just despise bouncing around guilds trying them all out.

I found in the past when I did guild I hated it. After a few months, I found myself not even wanting to play my toons anymore.

When I left all guilds, I found I could log on any toon and interact/group with whoever I wanted whenever I wanted. I felt like I had total freedom!

Once I was unguilded, I had no desperate urgings to run to raid mobs at any give moment. No BS over loots or secret tells from some greedy neckbeard begging me for a loot item I rolled on and won fair and square. No lofty expectations I had of what I thought a guild should be like only to drown in a mire of disappointments.

I just think some people value total autonomy and my personal experience has been guilds take that away from the player. I also joined guilds where none of my pals were in them, so that added to more of a desolate feeling and I didn't really care for the people I did meet from the guilds I was in.

Ironically, I was unguilded when going to Seb on my shaman, and I had no issues finding groups 75% of the time. Occasionally I couldn't find a group, but more often than not I did when I tried Seb. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]