Disclaimer: My knowledge on DP is rather limited (noobish) so the impressions I've gotten about this zone and it's flags could be way off base. If so please correct me.
What are the plans FL has as far as DP flag drops? What I mean is how will they be awarded/handed out? My assumption would be /ran 1k as that's been Furro's policy on everything thus far. I suggest a change in policy for these. To my knowledge there are 2 flag drops in DP 1 of which will be far out of reach for us at the time we begin raiding here (correct me if i'm wrong). So to me that sounds like we may get 1 per raid if we're lucky.
Call me crazy but I think doing Sendaii every weekend to keep freelance in DP is a huge waste of time. That event takes all night it seems and so far FL is shooting about 15%-20% on that event. If it were fun it might be acceptable.
CoA flags are easy. There's 4 per raid and something really went wrong if we didnt get all 4 to drop. We never had to even think about doing MPG trials again once we got in CoA. Even to this day as far as I can see most of those 4 flags are being looted by someone. That means we have a huge turnover of people and alts rolling through freelance.
Lets not waste DP flags on players who don't show up to raids frequently. That would be a tremendous waste of our time. Sure we'll still need to keep doing blood raids anyway I have a feeling but we can at least keep them to a minimum. The time investment vs. the reward on those is really bad. You could do 3 random raids in TSS/PoR/DoD or clear CoA in the time it takes to do Sendaii practically. Or just have the night off to do other things.
Is DP like CoA in the fact that you cannot loot anything else till you have that flag? If so that really blows because people who arent flagged wouldn't have much incentive to go to DP then if what i'm suggesting is applied. Unless they show up more often than not.
I'm not saying all this out of some self serving reasoning. Not directly at least. IE I plan on being flagged through blood raids prior. I just don't want to see FL trapped in the early stages of DP because of flagging issues. I'm not against anyone or the idea of open/casual raiding. I know the /ran 1k rule is what brings in a lot of people and FL wouldn't have made it this far with some complex loot system. I just think this is one of those rare situations that sticking to the /ran 1k everything rule will really burn us and not help FL at all.