Raid Rotation

[xzhaa]

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

That was me who posted the auction but on NO WAY did I mean it towards your guild(s?), it was more of a fun way to sell my item with a bunch of people in zone. I’d be the first to say lol F off if you were offended by a joke of mine but again this wasn’t my intention. I literally logged on for the first time in days saw a bunch of people and tried to sell my shit helm which is still for sale by the way.

Other items I’ve tried to sell while in ToV, ravenscale mask, schws, orb of tishan, etc. it’s a great place to sell items when there are a bunch of people in zone!

Yeah I tought that was funny too lol ..... People these day get way too easily offended

[Skew]

Originally Posted by bmcgaffey20 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No one has moved on them? How bout a shout out to Lord Bob and Venerate forces for moving on Sevalak at 10am pacific this morning? Cekenar popped at 14%, wiping us out at 9%. This would have been the second week in a row that LB and Venerate forces killed Sevalak. And by a few mere moments we missed out on an opportunity to kill all three of them today.

Thats unfortunate. If not all triplets have popped you should take a bit longer and clear the 2 static wurms and the pathing flurry and fight in the hallway outside (the hallway that used to be safe in classic but P99 decided to add a non-classic roaming flurry drake...)

[Shinko]

Make all dragons spawn in random zones and force people to log in and mobilize to them

Tov dragons in b maze? Perfect

[bmcgaffey20]

No worries. It was just by a matter of moments. A phone call I had to take pre-engagement. Waiting for people to trickle in for an hour. The stunt we pulled to get into position for the kill. All these things took time. Time we are looking to shave out of our routine. Hopefully we can see you all again next week.... until next time, casuals signing out.

Also, if you were present at that raid, and you are reading this... Get signed into cleric accounts earlier, get parked out earlier. Part of this is <LB> leaderships fault.... but every single one of us know what day it is, and what time it is. We now see we are capable of our goals and have not been wasting time. Focus our power together casual troops and lets do this shit.

[Tobius]

It's fair now if you completely ignore RL.

The current non rotation favour no lifers.

It's not about casuals being entitled to free loot. Beating the encounter is earning the loot. Socking for 18 hours is not the content.

The problem is self perpetuating. Casuals who have done all except the cock blocked content leave, sockers remain. Eventually the server is full of maniacs and all the cool people have left. That's not a classic vibe either.

Rotation isn't classic but classic never stayed classic, it had new content. Permanent classic is not classic. A rotation would solve this. Everyone will still get all the pixels eventually, just slightly less fast but everyone would gain thousands of more valuable rl hours they used on socking.

Maintaining the spirit of classic (i.e actually being fun) is more important than literally mechanical classic. We never had all the knowledge of game mechanics we do now back then, that alone makes it different.

Make P99 good again. Bring back rotation.

[Daloon]

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

Rotation isn't classic but classic never stayed classic, it had new content. Permanent classic is not classic. A rotation would solve this. Everyone will still get all the pixels eventually, just slightly less fast but everyone would gain thousands of more valuable rl hours they used on socking.

There is less socking right now on Project1999 than in the entirety of the last 5 years.

[eezl]

It seems to me that tracking every ToV spawn so that a guild can log in 60 toons and kill it in 10 minutes IS socking. You still may need to win a race to FTE it, but your guild has had someone dedicated to socking every mob every week for 5+ years, and it hasnt slowed down in 2018.

[loramin]

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

Rotation isn't classic

Originally Posted by http://members.tripod.com/ms_9ball/kedge.html

Almost one year after the public release of Everquest, server overcrowding is a constant topic of debate. On the established servers, overcrowding in the "high-level" hunting areas has led to server migrations, "play-nice" rules being instituted, and on my server (Cazic-Thule) a reservation system where guilds actually reserve a dungeon, or plane, for months in advance.

While technically I guess that quote describes a "scheduling" rather than a "rotation", the point is that GM-enforced sharing of raid targets did exist (on some servers) even back in classic. And certainly in Luclin and PoP I know for a fact that some servers did literal rotations, because mine (Bristlebane) did.

Oh, and as a side note, our lack of server migrations is definitely not classic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Metham]

I can't stand this notion that persists that rotations are necessary to spread the wealth. The bulk of A/A are not getting bis 2nd and third alts. Im still on my first 60, i have arguably 3 bis items but no epic. Ive been with AM for well over a year, by definition im casual. Why is my epic or ring ten less important than yours even though your guilds dont show up but bellyache about not being able to compete. Why should i have to rotate chances at pixels i want when im out here trying to get stuff done. You want it, come get it, end the rotation talk, no free loot button.

[Endonde]

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

I can't say for 5, but right now we have more guilds going for more targets than anytime in the last 2 years I've been raiding. The entire scene changed with bi-monthly repops. The fact that mob windows don't get spread out for months at a time greatly reduces the amount of tracking required. The next step is to #rootthedragons. If we could get a Vulak ring event and most of NTOV rooted we'd see even more guilds getting involved while the top end raiders are busy doing the hardest content. This could even stand to increase the loot drops to classic levels.

You must have an awful memory, the number of competing guilds has plummeted.

I'm not arguing for full rotations, but the server has been far healthier in the past.