Tsukkasa wrote:
Last night after a 453 hour Nid watch party our group's sleep and a second group's RDM zoned into Valk at the same time and both holding parties were completed at the same time. We randomed, my group lost and so we left for Qufim. Does it suck? Yea. Does it help keep the peace some? I can only hope. Just don't be dicks, not that hard. Unless you work 2 jobs, you have no real excuse not to wait in line for your groups turn.
I thought I'd see mention of this in this thread this morning. There's more to it than two groups simply following the rules and /randoming for claim on Valk. The part that gets me is the "just don't be dicks" part, which you guys were clearly being.
First of all, I do work a job 8AM to 5PM, 40-50 hours a week. And every day I get home, there's at least 2 or 3 holding parties out in BuBu. Same people every night. I rarely have the opportunity to go in and merit. And you know, that's fine; it's a little upsetting that people who don't have jobs/live on the east coast basically have claim, but that's just the way it is I guess.
So, I went out there about 7PM EST, thereabouts, and start putting my party together while it's empty. When I have about 4 people ready to go, Impulse (I think) rolls up and goes in, which is not something I had a problem with seeing as how we weren't ready and still waiting on our RDM to show who was still going to be a little while. Shortly thereafter we get our 5th and are just waiting on our RDM to finish up at Nid before we go in.
About an hour and a half later, while most of us had already been there waiting for nearly 2 hours, our RDM shows up at nearly the exact same time as DB shows up and they earnestly expect us to just give up our position because "their RDM got their first". They started spouting off something about the "rules" or whatever, which I can honestly say I didn't really give a shit about in that particular instance because I had people who had been waiting there for 2 hours and I'm not about to give up our spot because some arbitrary rule, that I never agreed to; never had a say in; was about to fuck us over, says I have to have a sleeper in my party in order to be holding the position. It's just not happening. Sorry.
Our RDM decides he's feeling lucky and says he's going to roll and at that point I really couldn't care either way what happens because it's all quite frankly a load of horseshit. He rolls, we win and they leave.
My point to all of this is that: The rules are arbitrary, a lot of us never agreed to them. Have some god damn courtesy.