Would you participate in a server wide twitter based batphone for raid mobs? (poll)

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Freakish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't like zerg force kills on 32k dragons so no.

So you think there will be enough people for the plan to work. Great!

[Ravager]

I thought the point of joining TMO was so that you could be on the server-wide batphone.

[Ele]

Would like to see more people going for FTE.

[Droog007]

I like this idea a lot. I think it will be chaotic as hell... just the right salve for this festering sore.

If nothing else, it may cause intense, pounding headaches for the staff. Maybe shake things up and force their hand... wipe the server or something [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Laugher]

Around PoP era on Prexus there was a channel and I can't specifically remember if this was the original name as it came back every once in a while after PoP era but anyway there was a channel called puraid (short for pickup raid) wherein everyone would join when they logged in and raids would be randomly decided by people who had done the events/could lead a raidforce.. they got some good PoP progression flagging done for quite a few individuals in this way and also did events from other xpacs, all gear was /random and most people who participated at least got flags. I think I even got a couple flags off of it for my rog in planes haha.

I know channels aren't around in this era but figured I'd mention it since it was a relatively similar movement, gl[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[runlvlzero]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So a year or so ago I realized that if you want to experience the raiding content on p99 you are left with very few choices. There was one guild monopolizing most of the content and very few guilds who seemed interested in getting involved with the inevitable drama that comes with facing TMO.


Initially I just wanted to take all the guilds interested and form an alliance for raiding. Unfortunately this idea probably would not work out and would just lead to more guilds hating eachother. So I came up with the idea that we should just form a twitter batphone for everyone on p99.

It could be done a number of ways with many different ways to split loot and epic drops. But the vasic idea is that someone creates the twitter, anyone of sufficient level (58+ for kunark bosses, 50+ for old world bosses) could join and participate in raids. I understand there will be many kinks to work out as well as concrete rules/regulations to keep things fair.


This would also likely require a large capacity ventrilo server as well as perhaps a separate forum section. There will likely be many opponents to such ideas and that's fine because we have ket opposition every other time someone makes a suggestion to benefit the server/community.



So, I'm wondering who would be interested in participating in this type of thing?


What suggestions do you have in regards to splitting loot fairly?

How could we communicate amongst the folks interested?

What should we call ourselves?

Obviously every person wants to have their guilds and if said guilds want to mobilize and go after targets on their own that's cool too. But their chances alone arent as good as our chances would be together.


So I would vote to keep this simple, with interested players signing up on the batphone under their p99 character name(s) and parking their toons at whatever mobs we choose each week.

Loot could be randomed and split among those who NEED it, no alts/twinks. We can create a list of who needs what epic drops and base our priorities on that first.

Folks can take turns or track mobs in groups to break up monotony. We could start by choosing 3 or 4 mobs each week to focus on, and rotate the mobs each week in order to give folks chances to get tge items they need without buying them from TMO.

We could random the loot, keep track of who gets what and place a time limit on when winners will be allowed to random again to be fair.


Should members of TMO be excluded? considering the fact they have had 2 years to monopolize all the epic/dragon loot and their stance towards the rest of the server.



And lastly, is this even feasible? Worth it? Love to hear the opinions you all offer as long as they are constructive and not rnf-esque.

Again -- I understand something like this would be a lot of work and coordination and it would piss off a lot of people probably. But at this point I don't see another option for those folks who want to raid but refuse to get involved in.the shenanigans.


There are great players who refuse to raid on this server because of the toxic atmosphere and greedy lootwhores who must monopolize and sell loot rather than give other deserving folks a chance at kunark before velious is out. I mean, its been 2 years.

I suspect that naturally the server pop will dip before velious like it did prekunark but it really doesn't have to if the content wasn't cockblocked to fuck.

I endorse the shaking up of blues server politics by creating a massive force that no single guild can compete against. I still think you should DKP, just / all zone require people to drop anon, and award dkp on the twitter via list, or link to a google doc.

Let the alts of alts join your zerg and put the server on farm status. Fair is fair for all. The only thing you have to respect is no guild affiliation should matter if they are a member of the 3rd party org. So if TMO wants to defect and help you. Let em. It will shake up their ranks a bit with infighting as well.

Test server did this and broke the brutal lock on pop raid mobs that were cockblocking several smaller guilds from progressing beyond PoP. We left primal brood in the dust and completely dominated GoD and onwards with no skill players. Who eventually learned to raid a bit.

Blue certainly has the population to do this =)

In other words you just need to get people to show up and reward them fairly somehow.

[Tasslehofp99]

Originally Posted by Laugher [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Around PoP era on Prexus there was a channel and I can't specifically remember if this was the original name as it came back every once in a while after PoP era but anyway there was a channel called puraid (short for pickup raid) wherein everyone would join when they logged in and raids would be randomly decided by people who had done the events/could lead a raidforce.. they got some good PoP progression flagging done for quite a few individuals in this way and also did events from other xpacs, all gear was /random and most people who participated at least got flags. I think I even got a couple flags off of it for my rog in planes haha.

I know channels aren't around in this era but figured I'd mention it since it was a relatively similar movement, gl[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Barbraid ftw. Sup fellow prexian!

[Acrux Bcrux]

Originally Posted by Laugher [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Around PoP era on Prexus there was a channel and I can't specifically remember if this was the original name as it came back every once in a while after PoP era but anyway there was a channel called puraid (short for pickup raid) wherein everyone would join when they logged in and raids would be randomly decided by people who had done the events/could lead a raidforce.. they got some good PoP progression flagging done for quite a few individuals in this way and also did events from other xpacs, all gear was /random and most people who participated at least got flags. I think I even got a couple flags off of it for my rog in planes haha.

I know channels aren't around in this era but figured I'd mention it since it was a relatively similar movement, gl[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Barbraid

Edit... shit i didnt keep reading, tass beat me to it.

[finalgrunt]

More importantly, who would be responsible for lawyering server wide?

[SCB]

Originally Posted by Ravager [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I thought the point of joining TMO was so that you could be on the server-wide batphone.

Best post ever made.