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"Naecabon;490879" wrote:"jeremyj26;490869" wrote:
Seems like the easiest fix is a proper cooldown. Also, you can't pretend to be heading up the cause for reform, Nae, when you abuse it as much as any. Comes off as hypocritical.
Easiest, yes, but it doesn't solve as much as you'd think. They have to juggle a cooldown that attempts to mitigate collateral damage from alt hopping and guild hopping while also keeping that cooldown small enough to have the least amount of incidental impact on people that get booted from a guild or want to just switch normally. It's a difficult thing to balance. As a result, it probably can't/won't be as long as it needs to be to be effective.
So so so so many guilds guild hop that the topic means nothing to me at this point. If you aren't guild hopping you're just shooting yourself in the foot. Altfactorying was clearly something everyone got **** over so we've since stopped doing it nearly as much while we transition to an alt guild instead like everyone else. But make no mistake - plenty of guilds, including many people in this forum, guild hop and merc it up. So we're desensitized to the criticism at this point.
The difference is I don't see many of those people cooking up solid solutions to the problem. They just casually participate and say nothing otherwise.
Not all guilds in the top 20 have used guildhopping or alts. My guild has had static membership with the exception of taking one or two new people when members have quit the game. I doubt that we are the only ones. I don't begrudge those who used guildhopping before June 10th, because there seemed to be tacit approval of the practice. It is unfortunate that the announced changes were not implemented immediately.
