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Originally Posted by raato
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But by being member of those guilds it shows that you are not only fine with how some of the members/leadership break the rules and act but also supporting it.
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I think this is an incredibly naive view of the game. I am 100% fine with the way Awakened ensures compliance with server rules and I have a great deal of respect for our senior leadership. Players like Eratani and Breaken help make P99 a better place for sure, especially while trying to counterbalance some of the insanity in the current raid scene. There's no incentive to break the rules on P99. Why risk 10 days of mobs for any single mob? Awakened has kicked players who violated server rules. Awakened gives DKP for 'training sessions.' We have a recruitment period and requirements that ensure our players are 'good people' and up to speed. I received about as much training / informational materials while joining Awakened as I have before starting new jobs. On multiple occasions we've stopped any raid activity until checking in with Sirken. On multiple occasions we've lost mobs to other guilds because we weren't comfortable engaging under the circumstances or in gray areas. We've conceded mobs with no one else in zone. We've also extended olive branches and done things like not contest Dain, Yeli, CT, LTK, and Feshlak this past weekend.
I have attended nearly 700 raids with Awakened and I have never once heard leaders knowingly propose a course of action that was against the server rules. We've also made on the fly decisions based on our interpretation of rules and based on as much information as we could gather at the time (fraps etc). The rules are not as clear as we'd like and scenarios are not as transparent as we'd like (why did a mob warp? what happened? who casted that spell? how the hell did that person get on aggro list) and we've taken full responsibility for those decisions and any punishment that stemmed from them.
I think it's a cop out to say, "every member of AW/AM are evil, that is why we don't compete."