FalCoN Posted:

tl;dr: Klan raiding takes too much effort for the small benefit you get out of it. Stop only thinking about the ideal case, but also think about possible problems if things don’t go perfectly. Or just accept that people can both klan raid and solo raid.

Under the current conditions, I agree. There just isn’t a point to raiding. However, I very much disagree with how to bumess things. Looking at the ideal case is what always needs to be considered. No one seems to have a problem saying 72 solo vanilla, when in fact missing 2 forums suddenly drops that number to 56. The ideal case is the very max possible, no one expects that to happen regularly, but since the ideal doesn’t happen for anyone it is a fine way to judge things.

“Just live with it” in regard to raiding is the problem that has been going on and driving off players since last March. In a game with over 100,000 characters and at the most ultra generous estimate 400 rotating raiding characters, I think it is in the interest of the game to either find a balance between solo/klan, divide the two completely or tell the raiders to stuff it since they are the very obvious minority. I like the raiding option, that is why I suggested the things I did, but if it comes down to it I’d rather see raiding disappear completely than see it be positioned as a scoop earning method where no other scoops are needed to win.