Cause were at work, asleep, out to dinner with the kids, at a meeting with a kids teacher, helping them do homework, mowing the lawn, washing the wifes car etc.
Why dont they get taken away from you? Time, pure and simple. Contesteds are for the dude who can be online, 7 days a week, 10 hours a day. (I know, I know, you can clear them all in 15 minutes a day, and most of you play on your lunch breaks or while driving to and from work.) Gotcha...
Heres 10 minutes worth of research I just did:
Revelations-Unrest
Raiding Schedule:
o Monday thru Friday raids start at 5:30PM PST, that doesn’t mean you are on the way, repairing, or buying potions. That means you are in place and ready to zone in at 5:30PM PST. Raids generally end by 9 or 10 PM PST, but there will be nights where we are done early and some where we might end a bit late.
o Sunday raids start at 3PM PST and the above applies to being on time and ready to go. Again they end at approximately the same time.
Second Dawn- Najena
Raid Times; Our current Official Raid times are Monday to Friday 8pm EST to approximatly 12/1am EST. Weekends are given off for summer fun and may return in the future. Contested Raids may happen at anytime outside of Official raid times.
Defiant- Runnyeye
Brief snipets from guild rules:
Recruits and memebers alike should maintain at least 75% raid attendance, raiding 6-7 days a week. If you fall below this time, you will not be allowed to bid on loot, and we might have to recruit another player to replace you.
If you attend less than 75% you will be given a warning. If your attendance does not approve, we will ask you to disband so that you can find a more casual guild.
Saints of Norrath
Raid Times and Attendance
Our members are
required to maintain a minimum of a 70% attendance (3/4 raids per week). Once reaching this mark, the member is no longer allowed to recieve any loot. And if no effort is seen to bring that attendance back up, the member will be kicked from the guild. However, we still expect our members to stay as close to the 100% mark as possible. But of course, we are pretty reasonable, and we do understand that sometimes people have RL issues to deal with, or want go on vacations to hawaii, or have to fly to NYC to watch Conan O'Brian cuz they won a free ticket off the radio. If this is the case with you, please inform an officer about it so that we may plan accordingly.
Our scheduled raid times are as follows (EST):
- Tuesday: 9pm - 1am
- Wednesday: 9pm - 1am
- Thursday: 9pm - 1am
- Sunday: 4pm - 12am
We may still call for raids on off-days and on off-times to take down contesteds or to make up for lost time if we can't raid on a scheduled day (like on holidays). Contesteds do not count towards attendance.
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Pretty hard to even get a chance to take them from you, when I cant live online isnt it?
This is just the set raiding schedules too, not the extra stuff, doesnt count towards the time online you do your own thing like leveling, farming, crafting etc.
If each one of these guilds requires 12-30 hours a week playtime or you get booted, and then you say, add in 10-15 hours playtime a week to handle your other buisness, well thats how much time a week I spend at my full time job, which pays me a salary.
With these raid times, I dont see how some of you claim to be HC raiders who only spend 3 hours a night 3 nights a week to do what takes the rest of us 40 hours a week to accomplish.
Maybe its not your play skills that make you uber, but your ability to manipulate the space/time continum to fit your 5 hour 4-7 day a week raids plus your crafting, leveling, farming and questing times into 3 4 hour sessions.
I wanna be like Hiro Nakamoto too, but every time I blink, the clocks still ticking, the wife still needs attention, and my boss still has another project to put on my desk that needs 4 hours of my life. Where do I sign up for that super powered shit, Im tired of this mortal bullshit, and its retarded insistance to be bound by logic and physics.
Re: Should contested Epics even be bothered with?
