What's the Guild Atmosphere these days?

[Cars]

Returning player coming back wth some friends. Curious what the field looks like now with Velious out. Who's the top dawgs? What casual guilds are best to join that still get some raiding in etc etc. Who's the new TMO?

[teija]

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

Who's the top dawgs?

Awakened and Aftermath

A-Team+IB = Rampage+ Taken = Awakened
TMO=Forsaken + Asgard = Aftermath

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

What casual guilds are best to join that still get some raiding in etc etc.

Anonymous,Venerate, Fires of Heaven or one of the "CSG's" Azure Guard/Omni/Europa if you just want to get your feet wet.

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

Who's the new TMO?

There is no new "TMO", No one single guild controls 100% of velious. Every guild has the same opportunity to secure raid content. Awakened and Aftermath go back and forth taking about a 50/50 split of about 90%+ of velious content tho.

Welcome back to the server!

[Gimp]

There's several old school hardcore people that don't do the 24/7 batphone anymore in Rustle.

If you're not looking to hardcore neckbeard on a dead end server, they're probably your best bet.

You'll have to excuse Happy for omitting them, he's still mad about something or another

[Tankdan]

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

Curious what the field looks like now with Velious out.

Velious launched here almost 2 years ago so the field has changed just in this expansion alone. <Rampage> dominated most of Velious before waking the Sleeper 15 months ago. https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=227097

I think Rampage got 25 of the first 25 Vulak's and 37 of the first 40 Zlandicars before Forsaken (and sometimes Forsaken/Asgard/Taken alliance) gained traction, causing burnout by Rampage members and a desire to wake the Sleeper and move on with life.

When that happened, many Rampage decided to quit the game or slowly fade away from P99. For the Rampage that wanted to keep raiding Velious content, <Awakened> was formed by non-officers of Rampage alongside <Taken> which merged the remaining players from those guilds together.

Aftermath and Awakened have the most players showing up and are the most willing to no-life P99 content in 2017, and this hasn't changed over the last year or so. They can each get 50-70+ people online within an hours' time during prime time hours, and they still batphone raids at 4am or 11am on a Tuesday.

Rustle has many ex-Rampage/IB hardcore types combined with newer raiders, but the guild is smaller in numbers so they pick and choose what they go for and when they go for it. They are more willing to compete for harder targets/zones than smaller guilds, but they make sure to limit the poopsocking.

Anon, CSG, Venerate, FOH, and others make up the rest. They have plenty to raid, but are far less likely to be seen poopsocking a starting line than A/A. They also get to slaughter Kunark on top of their Velious raids. If you don't want to treat P99 raiding like an on-call job, this is where most people find home.

There is still no Class C/R/FFA rotation for Velious. That has been substituted by GMs suspending A/A every couple of weeks for "violations" and letting the other guilds have at it.

[Lukeass]

Curious, where does clue fall in all of this?

[Expediency]

People on the server have four options:

1. Hardcore: A/A are only two in this category. Tend to require 58+
2. Organized casual raiding: CSG/FAV/rustle . Guilds in this category have lots of people but are not hardcore and limit racing/poopsocking. Also target kunark more than a/a. Tend to require 46+
CSG is a long term alliance of the guilds Azure Guard, Omni, and Europa. We can turn out a/a type numbers (or more) during our primetimes but we are far more casual and limit poopsocking. We prefer to avoid lawyerquesting.
FAV has a similar strategy to CSG.
Rustle is smaller, seems to target mobs during a smaller window than the other two, but has more semi retired pros on their roster and can bring the heat when they decide they want to.
3. Large casual guilds: These will raid but are less organized and often have no minimum level requirement or batphone. Typically very friendly players who have no interest in hardcore anything. Veloci shift and clue are good examples.
4. Unaffiliated/tiny guild: P99 staff ignores the live rule of 10 people minimum in a guild. There are loads of guilds with only a few people in them. If you want a very small atmosphere, join or found one of these guilds.

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

Curious, where does clue fall in all of this?

Clue is fairly large and has friendly and helpful people but they are not nearly as organized as others their size.

[Maner]

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

We prefer to avoid lawyerquesting.

wasn't the last suspension due to CSG lawyerquesting?

[Freakish]

I think it was due to Aftermath training another raid force.

[Maner]

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

I think it was due to Aftermath training another raid force.

which was petitioned and lawyerquested by CSG

[Lhancelot]

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

wasn't the last suspension due to CSG lawyerquesting?

Stop trolling here. They are asking questions about guilds, not the toxic behavior some of you raiders exhibit, in fact the same toxic behavior you are exhibiting in this thread.