I was wondering if anyone could share some insight on how the server raid content rotation started? I only ask because I hear servers like p99 a lot of poopsocking and first to engage and was wondering why the culture is so different here. Was this orignally GM regulated?
What the above people said. The rotation is self regulated. The guilds create rules and rotations that the majority favor, and we stick to them. Of the past few years the rotation has shifted based on the content rotated and guilds actively in the rotations but it has all been fairly smooth. Should a guild go renegade and purposefully kill mobs out of rotation or ignore the rotation I’m sure some GM ban hammers would come down as necessary but over the past 8 years on the server that’s never happened for any of the 10? Guilds that have raided here. The GMs here have only banned a handful of people from what I’m aware of but they are pretty fast to act when it’s clear someone is going to be a problem with breaking rules. Our current rotation has 6 guilds or alliances and has minimal issues. The only real issue is the long time between each rotation slot causing guilds to have to wait 3 months between each Vex Thal rotation, but this is sort of counterbalanced by the fact that we have plenty of other content on rotation like PoTime, 5 Elemental Planes, Ssra, and other Misc Luclin/Velious content. Not to mention the unrotated things like PoP progression targets and plenty of other fun things like NToV, classic/Velious planes, ring wars, etc. that are fully FFA.
GM involvement here basically boils down to, "don't make us get involved," and it has mostly worked out.
At the very beginning of the server there wasn't rotations, but everyone could see where things were heading. They did a vote and this was the result : Official Raid Rotation Post | The Al'Kabor Project - PoP era Everquest (takproject.net) . They let guilds police themselves and the GM's would only get involved if agreements between guilds were broken. As the server grew, it just became easier for everyone to do rotations like we have them now. GM's haven't had to get involved in a rotation dispute since maybe early kunark?
guessing it's based on the rotation spreadsheet where it's broken up as: plane of air plane of fire plane of water plane of earth a plane of earth b
i hope someone some day makes a documentary about takp history. Part III: Mars and the fake ash fiasco of 2019
