[loramin]

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

Some minor edits / fills for pre-Velious raiding:

The raid scene was originally dominated by Inglorious Basterds, whose membership ranks included a P99 developer (cue: drama and accusations). Dark Ascension (formerly Fish Bait) started to challenge Inglorious Basterds in the raid scene.

During this time, attempting CT was particularly interesting as both guilds would be forced to simultaneously clear the zone while monitoring the rate at which the other guild cleared. Eventually, a raid leader would make the judgement call that enough had been cleared and an attempt on CT was made.

New/random raid rules were created such as 15 non-AFK players on a spawn guaranteed you the spawn. For example, both guilds would have players sitting in Fear waiting for Draco to spawn. Eventually this raid rule was removed and replaced with ___________? [Author's note: I remember guilds camped along north wall calling out AFK checks to ensure other guild's players wen't AFK in Fear]

In these early classic days, if a guild was doing a non raid-mob planar clear, usually no other guild would zone in to compete (exception: IB and DA). However, this started to change when TMO entered the raid scene late in classic and armor mobs became contested in regular planar clears among casual guilds. [Author's note: I remember TMO zoning in after my guild had cleared / "broke into" West Wall camp in Fear and TMO immediately went for the armor mobs (Harpies). This led to several accusations/jokes about TMO being unable to break Fear by themselves which ultimately led to the expression "TMO Break Fear Yet?" which was further immortalized by the use of tags on P99 Forum Posts - or maybe it was a tag first?]

I don't believe IB dominated Kunark for the first 4 years because... during relatively-early Kunark (Fall 2011), Inglorioius Basterds was struggling with attendance and TMO was winning a majority of raid mob races. IB teamed up with the more casual guild Vesica Dei and for awhile were able to successfully compete against TMO. Eventually, TMO gained access to VD guild website and posted RL pictures of the VD guild leader on P99, prompting her to quit P99. This act, combined with IB momentarily leaving for EQMac and other raid shenanigans [Author's note: I believe one of the GMs favored TMO because she was dating one of their members and/or TMO members purchased baked cookies from her], led to VD disbanding and remaining members joining BDA. Having received an influx of raiders, BDA initially attempted to compete with TMO but rarely won. Eventually a group of BDA members left to compete more aggressively and created the guild Forceful Entry (and other casual members left to create Omni). TMO dominated Kunark raid mobs for years.

Late in the Kunark era, P99 staff introduced a variation on raid rotations through a class system. A guild could be labeled "competitive" or "restricted" (Class C and Class R respectively), and a raid mob would cycle between being available only to Class C guilds, only class R guilds, or Free-for-all (FFA). Among the casual guilds (Class R), an initial rotation was created so that all casual guilds would have attempts at raid mobs. However, after awhile, some of the larger casual guilds thought it unfair that smaller casual guilds were teaming up when their turn came about in the rotation because they had an insufficient number of raiders for the targets (this led to situations where, for example, three smaller guilds would consistently team-up and thus receive 3 "spots" in a raid mob's rotation whereas one guild of equivalent player size would still be restricted to their 1 spot). After negotiations failed, the rotation was ended and the larger guilds (BDA, Taken, Divinity) won a majority of class R raid targets. The class system was removed with the launch of Velious.

That seems a heck of a lot better than the current page! Anyone want to expand on any sections, add anything, correct anything, etc?

Once the forum stops chiming in I'll happily "wikify" (add headers, links, etc.) whatever we have.

P.S. Oleris thanks for your's too, but ... paragraphs help make stuff more readable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]