Reading Chest's posts when FE and now IB have tried to join this rotation has been hilarious. People like him and Lanuven are going to ruin this rotation for everyone with the way they treat new guilds trying to join the rotation. You guys do realize that if you shit all over guilds trying to join the rotation they're just not going to join, right? You don't think FE, IB and TMO would like to raid sky whenever it best suits them? The only reason they aren't is because even the most hard-core among us can recognize something that is good for the server when they see it. However, if you take weeks to bring them into the fold, sling insults their way, and generally shit all over them, don't be surprised when they just say fuck it and do whatever they want.
I feel like you guys are under the impression that this organized rotation gives you some sort of bargaining power in regard to when guilds can raid sky, and really that power only exists so long as the guilds voluntarily apart of this agreement stick to it. This isn't a carrot v. stick scenario, because there is no stick aside from you guys getting mad and calling them names, which isn't a very effective stick. IB went up one day at a time they thought would be the least inconvenient to the other guilds in the rotation and you guys are acting like they're the second coming of Pol Pot. If you want this rotation to succeed you need people to want to abide by it since it is voluntary, and not making time for them and then shitting on them when they raid at a time that no one else uses isn't the best way to make them want to abide by it. As they say, you catch more flies with honey.
I'm not really raiding lately and FE already has our spot, so this only concerns me so far as I think it is cool that the rotation has worked out well for the server so far and I'd like to see it continued. But for real, if this thing is going to survive, throwing insults around and making it stupid difficult to get a spot in the rotation are issues that need to get worked out.
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