honestly dude i think we just want competition
I get that, but you can't manufacture it, it's kinda embarrassing. Me/Zaide/Silinius and other current Faceless leadership aren't Darth, we aren't mouth breathers who are gonna spaz out and jizz all over the forums like retards regardless of the outcome. Like I'm almost embarrassed to be part of this nonsense, and I almost consider EQ playing to be quasi-shameful (maybe full on shameful.)
I'll also point out--starting guilds on a new server involves mass recruiting. Mouthbreathers and retards are
going to happen, asshats gonna happen. I was in LJ and Agnarr at the start and we had plenty of both. LJ had some serious issues with a full-on retard guild leader in Darth. Agnarr had a lot of bad players in it initially but a lot of them had come from like literal 1999-2003 era EQ, brought back to the game by the unique PoP-Lock ruleset. A lot of people I've raided with in Faceless guilds have been "quiet members" of both TL/AoS and Faceless, I'm sure I don't even know all of the crossovers and I doubt you guys do either.
You were in both LJ/Agnarr Faceless to start with, which was probably the
roughest era for both guilds, because starting out is always like that. What I will say is if you had stuck around--the LJ Faceless guild got cleaned up a long time ago, it's one of the best groups of people I've ever raided with. Full of chill people who just like EQ. A lot of us really enjoy the core eras of open world raiding like you do, but we're progressing through the later eras of the game because a lot of us never have before and why not, it's not a huge time commitment like it once was.
The Agnarr Faceless guild was continually cleaned up over months and expansion after expansion. Your perception of who we are based on being in the two guilds at their earliest and roughest eras isn't the Faceless Org today that's looking at the new TLP. We're well-adjusted, chill people...mostly, or at least by TLP standards. We aren't gonna froth up for you and act like retards. In fact we believe so much in not doing that--when some of our members have stepped down that path of publicly engaging in trolling or etc, we reprimand them.
What I will say is we aren't "afraid" of competition, but I think you guys are a very different guild. In fact one of your former members said that in our Discord tonight "the guilds are culturally very different." We set specific standards and goals for ourselves and work to achieve them, we do enjoy pursuing OW mobs, batphone raiding, mobilization, and all that comes with it. But if we go hard onto a server it's for the long haul, we aren't doing it for the early expansions and we aren't doing it conditionally, Faceless builds its guilds to last.
All I can promise you is if we "beat you", you won't hear us say jack shit about it. If we lose, you won't hear us say jack shit about it--and if any of my people step out of line on that there will be serious consequences. We're gonna do both like the reasonable group of dudes we are. It's funny we're already here though--rulesets ain't even announced yet bois, and they gonna determine a lot.