Because then everyone else will want to get in on the action. Hey even the A-team will sock trakanon once or twice if that means we can get in on a rotation.
The simple reality of the raiding scene is that there are too many players. So the staff had to do something, to have some criteria to decide which of them would get the pixels. They chose variance, which reduces their workload and gives 100% of the pixels to the people who were the most . . . dedicated. Any solution to the raiding scene has to address this. We have too many players relative to the mobs, so we need more mobs. It is simply the only way. I don't think the amount of loot dropped is quite so important, I think most people would be satisfied if a) they got to do the encounters and b) they would eventually have a shot at stuff, even if it would take a year or whatnot. There are basically two ways to have more mobs:
1) Simultaneous repops, where the existing mobs are concentrated in time
2) More pops, possibly with less loot per mob
My preference would be for both. For example if there were 3 boss mob repops per week with every mob dropping 1/2 the normal loot, with times known in advance. Say Wed @ 6:30 PM ET, Saturday @ 10:00 AM ET, Sunday @ 9:30 PM ET. Most people should be able to make one. Now you just combine this with some anti poopsocking code (say when the boss pops all players are teleported to the zone in, the zone fully repops, and anyone who logs into a dungeon while the boss is up logs in at the safe point), a 'player lock' where if you zone into a 'raid zone' with a boss up, you cannot log on another 50+ toon on the same IP address for say 1 hour, thus preventing the silly camped alts bs that goes on here, and disallow trains in VP, and voila, fixed raid scene.
What would happen: no poopsocking (everyone knows when the stuff will spawn anyway, and you get teleported out), no batphoning (obviously), no tracking (obviously), minimal interference at least at first because everyone is going for different stuff, and the top guilds can only get a few targets each even if they split their forces. And with no trains in VP, TMO/FE/BDA will probably all choose to play in there, at least until Phara Dar is dead. This would be about 1000000 times better than what we have now. I think there are very few people who would disagree with the Loraen Plan. Why Rogean hasn't implemented it, well I guess he has a job and a life and such. TBH if they gave me access to the source I bet I could do it
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Anyway Xasten I don't think your plan is bad per se, its just that getting any changes at all has been super hard and if we're going to fight for changes I think they should be good ones.