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View Poll Results: Is variance still needed?
Yes, it promotes "competition" 75 29.18%
No, its an unneccesary non-classic time sink 182 70.82%
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Old 06-20-2012, 02:06 PM
Asher Asher is offline
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Originally Posted by Frieza_Prexus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
I find the strong desire for forced rotations to be potentially troublesome.

To explain, I came from Prexus which, for good or bad, had one of the last and certainly the broadest rotation system in EQ for its time. Because the rotations were open to all guilds, they eventually ballooned to immense proportions. Guilds were having to wait over 17 weeks for VS. This caused all sorts of problems. It also gave other guilds an artificial reason to stay on the rotations. The top guilds continued to "take a number" and kill spawns uncontested to pad their guild bank. Had the rotations not been in place, the top guilds would have quickly left that content behind.
I don't remember Prexus being that bad. KTF ran the rotation. IIRC, there were maybe 4 or 5 guilds tops in the rotation when I left for FV in 2001/2002ish.

I don't recall when it happened but around 2001/2002ish Stasis decided it would no longer respect rotations and everything went to hell.

My old RL friend was Stasis' raid leader (Crucible/Chrysalid) until he left for WoW and iirc they didn't reintroduce a rotation at all during his time.

Prior to server numbers being removed I think Prexus was boasting 1.5 to 2k people during Kunark and if a rotation could be managed than I am sure it could be done with the fraction of that number on P99.

All it takes is one guild to break the rotation.

Asher
 


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