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There is no need for this. You need large groups to do both of those. The more people an event requires, the higher the chance that you are going to have leeches. Let's not even get into the fact that there are not that many people that could gather enough people they can trust for a closed run like this. Such a feature would be useless for most of the player population making this a waste of the Devs time.
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While I'm all for anything that reduces leechers, this would be an unnecessarily kludgy mechanism for it. Because you'd have to have enough team captains in the SG to start the raid.
Essentially you're restarting the whole "mentor tetris" game under new rules.
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While I can relate to your rationale behind this suggestion, I don't think this is the best solution to the problem.
I have lead both Hamidon raids and CoPs frequently on my server. Hamidon raids can be a source of frustration when there are people who are vocally disruptive or intentionally do things to hinder raid progress. There doesn't seem to be an effective way to deal with them beyond carrying on with the raid and ignoring them. While this may help limit distraction, it does not solve the problem of leeching. When the CoP came out, I enjoyed the fact that I could invite people I knew not to be troublesome. However, being the leader of a small SG, the CoP is just small enough in scale to be manageable. Trying to have around six people online in my SG who are able to lead a Hami raid would be more difficult.
Secondly, even if I were from a large SG and numbers weren't an issue, I think there is an appeal to large scale raiding in the sense that people from different groups can come together. I wouldn't want to restrict that and cause raid leadership to rest on the shoulders of one group. As of right now, anyone from any SG can step up and help lead a raid. An event of that size should enable flexible leadership.
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Please add the RWZ raid and Hamidon to be an available option via SG raid computer. This will allow the encounters to be more enjoyable as the leechers and clowns will be left...out. Those who wish to take their chances in the public zones may still do so and this option would allow those who wish a more organized and hassle free environment to have one.
The COP works reasonably well enough via SG computer, I don't see why the other raid encounters can't benefit from it.
thoughts?