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Old 12-29-2020, 05:17 PM
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Every spawn a quake for blue. Can leave spread out spawn times for green like the old days and call it blue custom content. Not a perfect solution but one of the simplest to implement and execute. Doesn't have to be at the same time every week even, could have variance on the quake time. Still doesn't really help the Vulak problem too much, that's another can of worms.
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Old 12-29-2020, 05:20 PM
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Every spawn a quake for blue. Can leave spread out spawn times for green like the old days and call it blue custom content. Not a perfect solution but one of the simplest to implement and execute. Doesn't have to be at the same time every week even, could have variance on the quake time. Still doesn't really help the Vulak problem too much, that's another can of worms.
Doing it during normal daylight hours on the weekend when the GMs are all awake and available means the GMs can all be around to referee. That's the one huge advantage I see of just doing it every Saturday at 3pm, for example. That and the players can schedule their time around it instead of going through the constant raid preparedness that is the current meta.
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P99ers do a lot of things well. Handling surprise adds / splitting up focus is not one of them. Mostly because the classes that do that the best (SK/Paladins) are generally trashed and considered useless, and because pulls are considered failures if a dragons doesn't appear at the zone line solo.
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Old 12-29-2020, 05:33 PM
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Doing it during normal daylight hours on the weekend when the GMs are all awake and available means the GMs can all be around to referee. That's the one huge advantage I see of just doing it every Saturday at 3pm, for example. That and the players can schedule their time around it instead of going through the constant raid preparedness that is the current meta.
Go full custom content mode. Hear me out:

GMs already have discord integration with their EQ server, allowing them to see what GMs summon what items (from the old Braknar/Sirken posts with the Manastone nonsense). So...

Everything spawns invulnerable.
The P99 server posts a message like "Eashen of the Sky raid in 2 hours. Sign up below" where people sign up with an emoji reaction.
Bot messages you so you can register your character's Name/Class/Level
Bot then randomly generates new guilds, equally divvys up the signed-up members across those guilds, and creates the separate voice channels for those guilds
At raid time, everyone joins their teams raid voice channel in P99 and competition begins that way.
"DKP" bidding can then be handled by implementing the in-game Chronos nonsense built into Titanium Client and handed out via the bot as well. The winning guild gets chronos (DKP) for their character, and they can then use that to DKP auction buy the drops in discord.

Sounds extreme right? It's a modern solution that allows everyone to raid regardless of guild tag.

Or... and this one is crazier than the above suggestion... People just act like adults, understand mistakes happen, and own those mistakes. Understand that if someone on your team messes up, you (as a whole) are responsible. It doesn't take a set of "raid rules" to know what you should and shouldn't do in a competition setting. Common sense isn't null and void because there's a list of ambiguously defined, rarely enforced, rules written in 3 different spots of a forum, all containing conflicting information.
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Old 12-29-2020, 05:35 PM
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Go full custom content mode. Hear me out:

GMs already have discord integration with their EQ server, allowing them to see what GMs summon what items (from the old Braknar/Sirken posts with the Manastone nonsense). So...

Everything spawns invulnerable.
The P99 server posts a message like "Eashen of the Sky raid in 2 hours. Sign up below" where people sign up with an emoji reaction.
Bot messages you so you can register your character's Name/Class/Level
Bot then randomly generates new guilds, equally divvys up the signed-up members across those guilds, and creates the separate voice channels for those guilds
At raid time, everyone joins their teams raid voice channel in P99 and competition begins that way.
"DKP" bidding can then be handled by implementing the in-game Chronos nonsense built into Titanium Client and handed out via the bot as well. The winning guild gets chronos (DKP) for their character, and they can then use that to DKP auction buy the drops in discord.

Sounds extreme right? It's a modern solution that allows everyone to raid regardless of guild tag.

Or... and this one is crazier than the above suggestion... People just act like adults, understand mistakes happen, and own those mistakes. Understand that if someone on your team messes up, you (as a whole) are responsible. It doesn't take a set of "raid rules" to know what you should and shouldn't do in a competition setting. Common sense isn't null and void because there's a list of ambiguously defined, rarely enforced, rules written in 3 different spots of a forum, all containing conflicting information.
Any solution that relies on "expect people to be better people" is doomed to failure.
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P99ers do a lot of things well. Handling surprise adds / splitting up focus is not one of them. Mostly because the classes that do that the best (SK/Paladins) are generally trashed and considered useless, and because pulls are considered failures if a dragons doesn't appear at the zone line solo.
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Old 12-29-2020, 05:37 PM
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Any solution that relies on "expect people to be better people" is doomed to failure.
Yea I'm leaning more towards the discord raid as well. At least that has a chance at working lol
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Old 12-29-2020, 05:47 PM
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Makes sense for GM to pop mobs when they log on and can watch. Semi classic, since spawn timers shouldn't be 100% on lock, and servers used to go down unexpectedly and have full repop pandemonium.

Obviously dragons are never going to get unrooted that seems like a fully classic inspired fix to p99 players breaking these dungeons.
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Old 12-29-2020, 05:49 PM
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this kind of bs would never happen on green, just saying [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

scribe this under beta blue problems
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Old 12-30-2020, 01:09 AM
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Old 12-30-2020, 01:13 AM
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I'm curious, in your mind what rule did he break and or reasoning do you have that would warrant that?
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Old 12-30-2020, 02:27 AM
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this kind of bs would never happen on green, just saying [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

scribe this under beta blue problems
just wait until the server enters velious
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