Although I don't like worrying about replying to things like this, Since I am in charge of the Bank and the Lotting for most of the items, I figure i'll go ahead and explain the "some kind of grand scheme to continuously rotate random expendable wabo members to keep allowing senior members to reap rewards while the rest of the shell is full of 'new recruits.' "
First of all, Lotting is done on an attendence basis. There is no "Grand Scheme" to anything that goes on in this LS. The problem with some of the newer members that have joined and since left comes down to 1 thing, attendence. We've had a handful of people come to like 1-2 events right after they joined, and then expect to be able to lot on everything that drops. Our whole philosophy on drops and who gets them is based on what job/s you have leveled, and who actually comes to the events, thats it. There is no conspiracy, no plotting against new members etc. We've had 6 E. Body's drop in the last month off Nidhogg - Lotting started with the people that showed up more, and now everyone save 2 people that can even USE the abjuration have it. 1 person is only lvl 70 bst, so he has 3 levels to go, hence why he didn't lot on the last one, and the other person is a DRK but hasn't been on since around Christmas because he's taking a break for school. I don't know why you are upset about lotting, I don't see what items you may or may not have wanted that have dropped. We've had E. Body's, M feet, M legs, and a D. Feet drop since you've been in the LS. As a BLM, which of those did you want?
If you are upset about us not doing sky, then that is something you'll have to deal with. Everyone knows coming into this LS that we don't do Sky anymore, unless there is some SUPER critical abjurations someone needs from sky, then we'll make a few special trips, but it is not something we do on a regular basis. We do rostrum pumps runs for people when they ask, and all other pop NM's for gear that the LS members need. All of our SMN's have YingYang, except for 1-2 that I can think of, and we spent a couple months getting those for our SMN's. The bank is used to purchase necessary cursed gear for LS members that get abjurations. None of the E. Body's were purchased for LS members, since those are not "necessary". M gear was purchased, A feet for RDM's were purchased, as well as Shining Cloths given to WHM's (which is pretty standard). If you're talking about Heralds Gaiters, I believe the only pair that dropped since you were in the LS were given to a player that has both WHM75 and BLM75 and comes to every event just about, again, attendence based.
Its no secret what we do, All drops on major abjurations are widely known as to who is next in line, according to attendence. I believe you were kicked from the LS for being in a Dynamis run at the same time as we were camping in Dragons Aery. I think the Beef people had with that is the fact that we ask and expect our members to be present, or available at the times of camps, thats all. What made this even worse I believe is the fact that We hold our OWN Dynamis runs every week, sponsored by the LS bank, all we ask is that you come and you can lot on all AF you can use (pick 1 job per run) and synthesis items are free lots as well. If this isn't working towards bettering the LS, I don't know what does. If you would be coming to OUR dynamis runs, I don't think you'd have run into any problems.
We don't have problems with people having real lives, or real problems, in fact, I think we are very lenient with that. Most of us have 9-5 jobs, I know myself specifically, I own a home, work for a Fortune 500 company, and have family in the area that I spend time with. I have extra curricular activites that take precidence over this video game, BUT, when i'm logged on, I am doing what I can to help the LS, and attending events all the time. Thats what we ask, we don't ask people to be on 24/7. The sad fact is that we have the same core people coming to every single activity we have and our hopes is that that core of people grows in number
As far as me using a bot to claim Behemoth and KB that I have recently - how about you check the log:
- Unable to use job ability, You must choose a valid target
- Unable to use job ability, You must choose a valid target
- Unable to use job ability, You must choose a valid target
- Unable to use job ability, You must choose a valid target
- Unable to use job ability, You must choose a valid target
(or whatever the phrase is that it says there)
you see that over and over and over in my screen, because I manually select provoke out of my menu bar, and hit the enter key on my keyboard, over and over and over and over. If that is botting, then by all means, I bot.
Wabo is a great Linkshell. We have members from all over the world that sacrifice to be on at really funky hours in their country, to make events that are scheduled during prime US hours, and I commend them and thank them for that. One of our PLD's wakes up at like 4am to make our camps every day- as well as some members from Europe that stay up until 4am in the morning at camps when they have school/work the next day. I thank them as well as thank all the other members that do their best to attend every event they can, because that is what makes Wabo one of the best LS's on the server.