Ok, so my Delorean just made a pit stop in 1987 with the title… deal with it!
I was going to briefly mention this in my June Summary, but it was already rapidly becoming one of my trademarked Wall of Text posts.
My stint this month rolling with Van Hemlock’s Tuesday N00b Club was my first-ever static group! I was already a working pilot when I got into the MMORPG scene, and our schedules prohibit the very notion of static groups. A pilot’s schedule is totally different each week and each month. No two weeks are alike, much less two months. As such, it’s impossible to commit to playing on a certain night of the week. My job is why in every new game I decide to stick with I have to put so much effort into finding a casual-friendly guild with a “family feel” but who is also understanding of my schedule and allows me to raid when I can without penalizing me because of my job. In addition to its many other flaws, the DKP loot system does exactly that, so adamantly refuse to join any DKP guild and will leave any guild that adopts it. I have the will, I have the skill, but paying the bills takes priority and I will not tolerate a system which penalizes me for that.
Michael Zenke wrote today that he’s always had a static group but is in search of a good guild. The great thing about his position is that he’ll get into an awesome guild while also keeping his static group. The best of both worlds. Whether he’s “getting pretty tired of it” or not, don’t look the static group gift horse in the mouth. The guilds are out there, and they’re great, trust me! But having experienced a static group now and knowing they are even better than I suspected they would be, I have a very keen sense of exactly what I’ll be missing out on when I return to work soon.
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