Says the guy from a guild that batphoned for a year whilst losing everything. I respect the dedication, trust me. I don't think there's ever been a guild that batphoned targets that long while losing. Most guilds would have given up after 1 month in to classic. However, you only get to call the competition weak if you are winning. When you lose for 4 expansions straight on sometimes a daily basis (until you give up the last half of each expansion), you don't then get to make the claim that competition is weak lol. That's just retarded rofl
Anyone who argues that Aradune wasn't the most competitive OW server of modern era tlp's is just straight trolling. It's not even close. DZ guilds going for OW mobs has been on a steady increase since Coirnav. I think you saw very little of it on Phinny and Agnarr because AoC's were new and DZ guilds were just content with raiding DZ's. Over time though that's gone away. Mangler is kind of when a lot of DZ only guilds realized "hey, we can go for OW when it's up" and that boiled over in to Aradune pretty hard.
The DZ guilds going for OW or trying to mass recruit then attempt to make a conversion in to an OW guild is one of the big things that has helped us stay so big. Every expansion there are DZ guilds one at a time that start trying to call OW targets and after they lose a handful of times a lot of their members leave and join us. DPS racing has always been a snowball effect. The winners snowball and the losers die off, that's why it's very important to win obviously lol. There has been like 3 guilds at least per expansion that does this. I mean we are in PoP era right now, the expansion where OW matters the least, and just in the last few days we've had to dps race 2 dif US guilds on ele gods at 4 am. Since classic, we've had over 200 DPS races and 34 counter poopsocks vs 13 different guilds and we aren't even to GoD yet, the motherland of contested OW.
I didn't batphone everything for a year and lose everything? I mean Aradune hasn't even been around for a year?
Rampage also didn't batphone and lose everything, another lie you spread. Rampage batphoned and lost a LOT of races (literally all), but enjoyed plenty of uncontested batphone kills in Kunark, Velious and Luclin. Even managed to win a couple of races in there. Notice I say uncontested? because there was no competition. TEQB enjoyed countless uncontested batphone kills, yet you're standing here saying it's busy competitive server? haha
The losses you suffered to us (and there were only a few) were always met with an excuse from yourself, usually some bullshit like, "oh you had more numbers" (against TEQB?? lol) "oh you had x amount of people camped out there" "you warped" so on and so forth.
I personally enjoyed the "congrats on your ban" tells from some people in your guild for 'warping' in Sleepers Tomb when I got a res from zoneline.
Aradune is a weak server for competition I don't know why you try argue the fact it isn't? There were mobs in Velious left up for half a day at least, I know this because your officers used to batphone bigger targets and would mop up mobs that had been left up or would see us move there and come over, something Hicks especially liked to do.
As soon as Victorem started turning up your guild tried to poach their members and officers, Safeside the GL of Midnight Redemption left to get easier loot with you guys and just abandoned his guild. I'm not saying these as a negative tactic for your guild. I'm just further reinforcing the fact Aradune is a weak server where one guild dominated and if you wanted literal free easy loot it was the place to go. There were a lot of cases of mobs being left up and most guilds are happy to sit in DZs. You were, alongside Rampage at a time the only guilds 'tracking' targets. These other guilds didn't have FD SK's down at Vulak 24/7 like you did for example.
See that's the difference between you and I, I've done all this before in RoI and Darkwind, It just isn't that important to me.
Congrats though on your domination, I'm sure you'll be remembered as one of the greatest guild leaders to ever grace the game and Aradune will go down in history as the most competitive server and the pinnacle of the TLP genre.
You just need to accept you literally impress nobody because you're not doing anything special, Although I'm interested with what will happen if your World Records get broken on the next TLP? What will the excuse be?
Just want to add one final thing with regards to the 200 DPS races. If you even used the measure of 4 OW mobs a day from Classic for one year (and that is mega conservative), that's 1,460 mobs and you've only DPS raced 200 times... you're trying to stand here and tell everyone you're on the most competitive TLP ever?
