Of course, but how to balance it so it's not biased towards people who already own the best equipment. FPC still want people to spend a lot.
Melee only ?
Limited gear only as I'd suggested.
Thnx
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No problem, you guys earned a victory. Saying it was Art of War winning would be inaccurate as there were many other helpers was my main point. We also had helpers, it was the nature of this year's Mayhem. Personally I didn't even find it monetarily worth it for 1st or 2nd based upon the number of people needed to place there. Look at 3rd place and you'll see that we could have just coasted to 2nd without much effort.
Second place was where we knew we would get within the first 3 hours to be honest. I'd said this all PRIOR to the contest also so I'd hope that all would know this isn't a whining post about placing 2nd (which isn't anything to be upset about anyway). Second is just fine, we did profit a bit but not really worth the time based upon the number of hours and the time of year Mayhem falls upon. I'd much rather have been hunting for SGA and trying to loot some of the final SGA items during that time. Since my society mates have helped me in the past 2 Mayhems, I tried to give back my help for someone else to win this year. With the Crystal Palace auction I couldn't be the main gunner anyway.
I'm proud of M2S and all our helpers for a job well done. I'm equally proud to see that AoW rose to Mayhem to defeat us. It proves there is still some competition out there - even if I'm not fond of the rules, they followed them and succeeded. I don't consider anyone who participated in this contest a "loser" just because they didn't get 1st, 2nd, or 10th place. I just feel that a long term solution to how this contest can remain competitive for those who don't have big socities needs to be figured out by MA/FPC. It is a difficult task but one I'm sure they can solve eventually (maybe during the next 5 mayhems).
Thanks to the non-M2S helpers & W2S helpers: Addz, Amara, Atami, chelle, CycoKick, Elena, heehaw, HuntingN8, JC, Kazanori, Lisa, Lootersilver, Marmac, Max Power, Moogle, Nox, Ozi, Rick Ninja, Ruchnik, Sammy2004, Skullseige, unaGriph, Urso, and anyone else I've left out. You guys did a great job and it was a pleasure to work with you.