09-26-2005, 09:56 PM
Gnollguy,Sep 26 2005, 04:28 PM Wrote:How do I keep it fun? By not making everything be about the raids. I thought I would need to stop raiding but the friday night 5 man runs that I get on Terenas help me out a lot.
However the problem with Stormrage and doing this is that we are too big for it. If we say that Wednesdays will be 5 man and small raid nights we'll get groups together but I'll hate that initial time of "who goes where and how do we set up the groups". The organization of a group this large starts to take a fair bit of time. You can structure it more to make that eaiser but then it becomes "Well I need to get on to play this toon for this group" not "I'm gonna play some WoW and have some fun!" Too much scheduling of a game just gets to me. It also has a tendency to make core groups of people that have lots of times with "outsiders" of the people that don't have as much time. Not really something I want to see.
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What would probably be better in this context is not setting a night aside to 'schedule' doing 5 man content or such. But rather set aside a night when no one is supposed to request or ask in channel or through whispers to set up any sort of 'raid'. Making it a time that is more casual and effectively supportive of doing some of the smaller content stuff like 5 mans or the more troublesome quests that are not easily soloed.
Quote:In game guild housing with a quest/instance help board would be nice since that would be an easy to update and follow thing but well Blizzard didn't want to go that route. It becomes too much work to maintain a list outside of the game, we've tried a bit with that already and failed.
Maybe this is what is needed. GuildEventManager.
http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=1592
Alrin I think had posted about it last week, but I can't find the orginal thread. While it is listed for setting up raids, it could work fine for many smaller needs too.