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Yes, the guild RP Revolution had a huge rally for Ron Paul on the realm Whisperwind.

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Old 03-01-2008, 07:15 AM         #2
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Old 03-01-2008, 07:38 AM         #3
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Old 03-01-2008, 01:35 PM         #4
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Old 03-01-2008, 03:54 PM         #5
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I was there -- not as a supporter of Ron Paul, but first as an observer on my Alliance toon, and then attacking the rally on my Horde warlock.

It was a mess. The server hasn't had queues for months, and that night we had a server queue of over 400. I know several people who were 45 minutes late for raids because of it. Everywhere the march went (there were an estimated 250-300 people in the march, though a small number of these were disinterested people looking for PvP opportunities and a small knot of dedicated hecklers) they created nearly unplayable levels of lag for any poor saps who were actually trying to play the game.

On the Alliance side, chat channels and /yell were filled with political slogans, most of it along the lines of "A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for freedom!" -- you know, meaningless sound bites. I stayed with them as they marched from Ironforge, went to the tram, went to Stormwind, and then went to Westfall on their way to a swim to Booty Bay. In Westfall I logged to my Horde toon, where about ten of my guildmates were already on their high level Horde toons, waiting in Ratchet.

Although the march itself didn't flag (leaders kept yelling at people not to flag), they had a lot of level 70 alliance guards who did. A friend of mine who has a high level Alliance talked to a few of them and found out that they didn't support Ron Paul or the march; they were just tagging along hoping for some world PvP. Well, we gave them that at Ratchet, and again at the Crossroads. Apparently the march had been planning to encircle the Crossroads and /dance, but they didn't realize how big of an aggro radius the mostly sub-level-6 march would have and the guards killed a lot of the earlier adapters. So they steered off XR and headed toward Orgrimmar. We (the high level Horde) finished killing the last of the flagged Alliance, mounted up, and headed off to meet them at the Orgrimmar gates.

Let's just say this: if the episode that followed in front of Orgrimmar doesn't change the duel-and-snake-trap bug (duel a hunter, set off their snake trap, run out of range, and the snakes will go off and attack anything nearby), I'm not sure what will. Horde hunters everywhere were getting dueled and setting off snakes in all directions, which attacked the low level marchers and killed them en masse. The front of Orgrimmar was covered in bones.

Interestingly enough, as one of the video commenters noted, neither the battles in the Barrens nor the snake trap mass slaughter made it into their YouTube video. They pointed the cameras away to small flocks of waving gnomes whenever there was anything "interesting" going on.

Maybe someone out there thinks we were wrong for attacking their rally, but honestly, they were disrupting our server with something that doesn't belong here. There is a time and a place for everything, and like Piscene said, most of us like to keep the real world out of our game. I doubt that they managed to do much other than piss off most of the server that wasn't involved in their little publicity stunt. Many don't care, many already know what they think about the election, and many can't even vote, being underage or non-US citizens. I guess they feel any publicity is good publicity, but I personally know a lot of people who are less interested in this person as a presidential candidate than ones who were positively swayed by it.

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Old 03-01-2008, 05:44 PM         #6
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My video reference above is actually for the longer 9-minute video