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Old 06-09-2018, 09:06 AM
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arguing about raiding plane of sky in 2018 on an almost decade old emulated server
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Old 06-09-2018, 09:49 AM
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"getting a torpor or a necromancer epic is hard and it's shitty when guilds lock others out from these things, so sky should also be shitty and we should have the ability to lock people out from sky (with GM enforcement) out of spite" basically sums up this argument as well as similar arguments from loramin and others. There are some decent arguments for the sky rotation, but this isn't one of them.

What do I mean by "lock people out of sky"? Well what I mean is Bummey petitioning me and my friends for going up one day a couple weeks ago in <Clue>'s slot, when they had already decided not to go and in fact their sky raids had been "indefinitely suspended" for weeks already. For some reason the GMs went along with this and suspended our toons for a week. Here is some more info for the curious. (Of course after that debacle, <Clue> was basically forced to start going back up again and so they've started to do that.)

What do I mean "out of spite"? Well here are some quotes from a convo I had with Bummey after the fact:


We didn't ask for <Clue>'s permission because who would have dreamed we needed it? I spoke to a friendly clue member. First I asked for an officer just because they generally have more idea what's going on, he told me there weren't any officers around but assured me that clue hadn't been doing sky lately at all and definitely wouldn't be going on that day. That was enough for me (and any reasonable person), and even the friendly clue member agreed:


This concept of guilds having so much ownership of their sky slots that they can veto other people from killing the mobs when they won't be killing them themselves (and won't even be entering the zone at all) is totally new and obviously absurd. (Disagree? Name a precedent.) Instead, it should be the norm (if not a rule) that guilds who know they won't be using their slot for a given week should say so publicly so that others can go. If you want to improve the sky rotation, start there. It's worth talking about other ways that the sky rotation could be improved/updated, and maybe I'll give my 2 cents in another post later, but I wanted to clear up some misconceptions and call out some hypocrisy.

For the record, it isn't perfect but I have always been OK with the sky rotation (I used to lead the sky raids for <Rampage> and other guilds) and have always been happy to go along with it until a new scheme is put in place. This is true in spite of Loramin's literally dozens of assertions in the reddit thread like that we "decide[d] the rules don't apply to [us]" and so on. We haven't and wouldn't have gone during a slot that was going to be used, and I'll leave it to the readers of this thread to come to their own conclusions about whether that's respecting the current agreement or not. I know he will try this trick again so I wanted to inb4.

Also for the record, we weren't a "farm crew", just some people who needed sky drops for our characters with no intentions of selling anything, although I don't see anything wrong with selling some drops that you don't need (for those interested, Bummey is selling necro epic cloaks and has one for sale and "two in the wings").


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Planarity/Unicity
For what it's worth, and even though I will give you the 'farm crew' ribbing, I actually am on your side.

Petitioning for 'depriving clue of their slot' is crying wolf. Clue holding on to an unused sky slot is zone monopolisation. Repeatedly failing to use their slot is Clue breaking the sky rotation agreement.

Enjoy your 30, 40 and 50 day consecutive raid bans from Planarity's counter petitions, Clue!

(Planarity plz don't counter petition, I doubt the GMs share this perspective and we don't want you to eat another ban [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.])
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Old 06-09-2018, 10:09 AM
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arguing about raiding plane of sky in 2018 on an almost decade old emulated server
at least we have these mentally ill folks isolated
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I think OP thought Rants and Flames meant "O gosh darn I'm so angry about this thing! O look, here's a place where I can vent about that!"

But didn't realize that this is more like... P99's 4chan or something.

except instead of random anons its a shark attack of a small clique that posts here all the time. so he's doubly fucked.
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Old 06-09-2018, 10:36 AM
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Bummey is a dummy.
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Old 06-09-2018, 10:38 AM
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arguing about raiding plane of sky in 2018 on an almost decade old emulated server
I think it’s more whining then arguing tbh
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Old 06-09-2018, 11:08 AM
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sky agreement = unions

whining about it = free market

well bye
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Old 06-09-2018, 11:18 AM
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sky agreement = unions

whining about it = free market

well bye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5oEzVbu8HQ
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I think OP thought Rants and Flames meant "O gosh darn I'm so angry about this thing! O look, here's a place where I can vent about that!"

But didn't realize that this is more like... P99's 4chan or something.

except instead of random anons its a shark attack of a small clique that posts here all the time. so he's doubly fucked.
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Old 06-09-2018, 11:18 AM
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A reasonable solution would be to have guilds sign up for a 10-12 week block and not hold on to a sky day in perpetuity. Then a guild would have to take a required break and then re-sign up for a new block.
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Old 06-09-2018, 11:41 AM
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What if your raid guild who wants to do sky
Then you leave said raid guild
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Old 06-09-2018, 12:58 PM
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Which guilds are those? Beyond Rivervale Vanguard.
I still anxiously await an answer to this one, as it seems sort of central to the entire thread (or at least to OP's original goal for it).
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