Irresponsible to keep raid ban going

[Naerron]

This is not a rant or a flame so I did not post it there. This is also not for me, i am a 1% RA raider and have a newborn and my plate is currently too full to do much more than discord and forum quest atm. Now that i've got that out of the way, here goes.

Everquest at it's heart is a social game. With the pandemic still as bad as ever and political turmoil in the US, it's important to be able to fall back on our other ways being social and for a lot of us that in raiding.

I also don't think it takes much time playing on P99 and especially raiding on P99 to start getting red flags of mental illness that is being managed and that is not being managed.

With those two things in mind, it doesn't make sense to me why we're not taking a more humanistic approach here. If P99 is place people find their outlet and with all of the extra ordinary stress we're all going through right now, why take that away from people. This just seems like a very harsh tactic during already tough times for a lot of people when really this is about infighting amongst 30 or so people, the amount of raiders suspended is hundreds of people.

So, that is my question and my thoughts on it. I left the UN chan after I saw the sanctioned trolling and general pot stirring that was being allowed to happen and encouraged. Here are two quick ideas on better solutions.

Why not just quake people into submission? Are we really worried about the perceived pixel value lowering and thus lowering population of a server that is not for profit? Let people blow off some steam, by the 5th back to back quake everyone will have a door prize.

When I hard the problem described to me, it sounds like a systems issue where less intense player populations do not have access to raid targets and the current raiding guilds petition each other too much. So, instead of a social solution, why not try a technical one. The implementation of the /list on green was very successful imo.

Taking that logic to blue, there are a myriad of technical solutions out there. My personal favorite is create instances for those that want a more casual play style. Put them on 2-3 week cooldowns that would reset on a quake. Limit instance mobs to dropping 2 loots. Then have open world mobs, they always drop 3-5 loots and there are no raid rules. No reason to petition because because there's nothing to be enforced. Play nice policy still covers non raiders in the zone.

Anyway, after checking back in with a lot of my discord communities from my break I felt like I should say something.