Raid changes (again)

[Splorf22]

Last october I posted the follow thread on raid changes:

Originally Posted by Loraen

So I had a chat with a friend last night about the Sleeper server. Now compared to P1999 the quality of the server and its approximation to classic are very low . . . . Nevertheless after chatting a while we both decided that if the Sleeper ever launched for real with a decent population we'd have to consider moving there . . . most of it is the tokens to spawn raid mobs. Think about this: the endgame scene on P1999 is so bad that we are seriously considering playing on a server that added relative level to damage calculations one month ago and has hundreds of other bugs.

There followed the usual huge thread with the usual consensus: simultaneous repops and FTE shouts would be a huge step towards improving the raid scene, and if that didn't work we could continue to experiment. Nilbog was on board, and eventually we got:

Originally Posted by Rogean

Here is what nilbog and I are currently planning/designing/brainstorming:

We will be cutting the variance in half on the existing raid spawns.

We will be implementing an FTE notice of some sort, whether this is an emote or some type of message.

We will be implementing a simulated patch day respawn. Here is how it will work.

The server will pick one day of each week (Random 1 to 7, Sunday through Saturday). It will then pick a random time. I will not disclose the range of the possible times, but it will only include afternoon and evening hours, so as to give the best chance for the most people to benefit from it.

A serverwide message will go off indicating that the simulated patch day respawn has or will be taking effect shortly. All raid mobs will (either immediately, delayed, or spanned, tbd) respawn.

What happened? The guild Forceful Entry was formed to compete with TMO. The peak server population went up 50% from 700 to 1050 (some of this was the winter of course). Casual guild membership swelled with all the new players who thought they might get to see Trakanon without sitting on his spawn point for days.

Five months later, the raid scene is worse than ever. With 50% more players the competition is even fiercer, and FE/TMO now sock VS for two days at a time and some people are now using autofire programs to get FTE. RnF erupts every other day with one guild accusing the other of cheating/kiting/stalling. It seems that now we have even MORE variance because of all the raid mobs that are missing their windows. Hell even the 'casual' zones like Sky are taken 5+ nights a week. I am seriously considering rerolling on red just because the raid scene on blue is so fucking bad, and I'm not really a fan of getting ganked while AFK.

TL;DR: As far as I'm concerned you guys owe us nothing. I have had large personal projects before so I know just how much time you guys put in. P1999 is great 1-59 and has allowed me to relive a lot of memories. But waving these raid changes in front of us and then not doing them is really frustrating.