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Old 08-09-2021, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Tilien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Again, you could just have some race or competition without the actual raid mob spawned to determine who gets mobs in the next cycle and save a ton of headache for everyone (no poop socking, no point or reason for trains to exist etc, if you wipe due to train just set up and go it again since you already won.). This fits all your criteria of having adrenaline/fun/saving headaches.
This is sort of true, in that the competition rules can be whatever the server at large ultimately agrees they should be and the GMs back up. We have races and thus we have race rules and FTEs. If the server decided, eventually, that competition will take the form of a gnome race, or that each guild wanting raid targets sent a "champion" to the arena on a set day of the week for a mini-botb, or we had races of small FTE teams ala noble race , then that's what it would be and the race rules would be rendered void (except in that last example, probably). Competition as a concept is likely to always exist on P99 in some form, it's just that certain forms are easier to build towards or offer a wider more leveled playing field.

Which brings me to my second understanding of the raid scene in general: We have a meta on p99 that a lot of top guilds over the years have built towards as that is the structure that is most rewarded under the rule constraints. The rules as they stand reward giant forces with lots of able bodies to throw at an encounter, and people with enough free time to stare at walls for x hours and call/respond to batphones. IMO, this is not very inclusive and favors those willing or able to turn p99 into a side gig.

Because of this meta and guilds building towards it, we have a staunch opposition to having the raid scene defined any other way. If we had a majority rule voting body with GM enforced results of the vote this might be mitigated but that doesn't seem likely to happen. Also majority voting platforms are obviously susceptible to their own problems. I think there are ways to fix this and make the end game scene more inclusive and less of a headache for the GMs, but the player base has become accustomed to certain things by now and their inertia seems to hold us back from getting to that point.
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