Back on topic, posting here, since I guess its the most appropriate of all the flames against us.
The successfulness of a LS does not lie on how great its "supposed bot" is. Imo, this LS has been successful way before our very first Tiamat or Fafnir kill. I am sure the other "end-game" LSes(Rise, CK, BoL, Kaizen etc) are successful in their own way.
Back in February, when me and Bjornar decided to take over leadership of ESP back when it disbanded in order to keep the group of friends we have made together, we built the LS for the purpose of enjoying the end-game, that many deemed to be hell, on principles that we believe in strongly, both in-game and out: respect, trust/faith, community, and enjoying the game as what it is, a game.
If you seriously base your successfulness on the amount of Adaberks, Dalmaticas, Ridills (which will all return to nought when SE decides to press that OFF button on the servers forever) you have got, then I advise you to rethink your priorities ingame. At the end of the day, you will be left with nought while we still have our fond memories taking up fun, challenging fights alongside friend with whom we have forged a strong relationship with.
Take away the items the we have got from "supposedly botted" HNMs, we will be still as successful. Who knows, I may leave the game without ever being able to try out Adaberk, Ridill and what-have-yous, but I most definately will leave the game satisfied.
Perseverance has evolved into a close-knit LS with members that enjoy the game as it is, as well as the company of fellow LS mates to the fullest. Look amongst our ranks for your so-called loot whoring, LS jumping "end-game scumbags" and I assure you that there is none (sure there is an alledged botter, but more on that later.)
To the wonderful LS members, who have stuck with us thru ups and downs, who are always there when help is needed, who show up for stuff just for the fun of it, and who has placed extreme faith in a far-from-perfect leader, lets look forward to another fun-filled and exciting year.
On Boticles(a name you guys ever so fondly call Chronicles) and how naive the LS is in believing that he does not bot, put yourselves in my shoe or any of the LS mates'. One one hand, I can choose to take the guilty-unless-proven-otherwise stance and choose to believe "I-heard-she-say-he-saw" or even worse, to believe someone who has been kicked from the LS due to 0 credibility and other incidents which we have, time and again, given chances for him to improve. On the other hand, I have someone who has played alongside us, showing up to events despite 0 benefits as well as countless hours sitting on the sidelines, helping out randomly whenever he can afford to. If I were to choose to believe the first blindly, then I truly am the naive one, and have failed miserably as both a leader and as a friend.
Of course, this is not just blind faith in a friend. There is never smoke without fire. After all this "loldrama" first surfaced, I have talked to a few people, as well as paid close attention to the logs when we claim.
What saddens me most is the people, whom I percieved respectable, taking part in immature /says as well as jumping to conclusion that ALL our claims are done by 1 single person.
If we were trully depending on these wonderful claim bots, why then, do we make the effort to return from AFK 10mins before windows to clear darters and make it so much easier for others to claim over us?
Claiming in the DA is almost as random as it gets. You, veterans of camping Faf/Nid, should know better than us. What do you want to achieve by turning the public eye on us, when our claim rate is as similiar to the next LS beside us?
I urge all of you who insist that we bot our claims, to consolidate concrete facts (screenshots of unfiltered logs before claim), instead of making false accusations. If we want to go on an all-out bot-hunt, lets do it with solid facts. I am proposing that we make a list of who claims in the DA over a good long period of time and see what this data can prove. My LS is willing to kick start this initiative, and how appropriate it is to start with a screenshot of our last Faf where Chronicles did in fact landed the first provoke on our battle log.
30 Nov, Faf, Pereverance claim (Chronicles' first to land provoke)
Of course, people choose to see what they want to see etc. In the end, this post will prolly fall to deaf ears. The screenshot I posted will prolly be used against us as the final nail to prove that Chronicles bot.
All in all, I find the accusations unfair to our honest hardworking members. What I am offering, is a way of consolidating as solid a fact as we can (thru screenshots of logs), since us claiming that our claim rate has been pretty well spread out throughout our members falls to deaf ears, and people prefer to listen to "I-heard-he-say-she-saw" Chron claimed another Nid for us.
