blowfin wrote:
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What shocked me most though is that this took place in my own FC.
My scrub-sense is tingling, sounds like your leader has some pretty special ideas. Just do your best to save people from being sent to farm CM ~
The first FC I joined when the game launched was a lot like this, so I left for another FC that invited me along to farm Titan with them, with none of us better than AF with a smattering of AK here and there, and a few Ifrit and Garuda weapons mixed in with the rest of our dungeon weapons. They farmed Titan regularly with just that because A.) No one told them you needed better gear, so they all just got better at the fight, and B.) They were fine with failing before succeeding instead of powering through something at a lower skill level, and as casuals, they were far better due to that mind-set alone than most hardcores I've met.
I loved that they offered me a spot in their FC. One of the best moves I ever made. The first FC I was in, last I heard, they imploded from the top-down. The leader wouldn't bring FC members to AK unless they were in full DL, and you don't want to know what he mandated for a speed run. From what I understand, his reputation and that of his officers are such garbage that they even get called out in DF now. So much for lack of community :D.
I guess the moral of the story is to move to a less-vocal FC that you can enjoy playing in. You'll have more fun overall.
Thayos wrote:
Good answer, Pawkeshup.
I'd say from a relationship standpoint, we're probably worse off than we've been in a long time. Young people don't really know how to relate to each other (or older people), because most of what they know is through a phone or a computer. Yes, I firmly believe this is the result of negligent parenting, but that doesn't change what's happening. It is what it is.
Almost Carlin-like in how true it is.
GiftedChild wrote:
Didn't have time to read through the entire thread, so I'm not sure if anyone has posted this.
I heard from a friend yesterday that Microsoft implemented some kind of new feature to their XBox Live Gold membership users. I'm a Microsoft/Xbox hater but even I thought this feature they implemented was genius. Kind of left me hanging as to why S.E. never thought about doing this.
MS created this... so called "Point System", where users gets to rate other users based on their behavior, language use, attitude/play style and various others. This thing was created to counter problems with games like Call of Duty, Battlefield and etc. Apparently, CoD and Battlefield all have their share of "kids" that basically ruin the game for everyone else during online sessions.
To simplify it, it's a "Reputation System" where bad players with bad behaviors gets marked. I think if you are a good player, there is some kind of "green" marking next to your account name and if you are one of the annoying kids, you get a red mark.
Snipped some there, just to get the main point out. But from what I've seen so far, these systems always start out all good and well, but a vast majority of people that use the system itself tend to rate people down out of spite or boredom more than people rate up, and the system defeats itself. League of Legends bypasses this by weighting level 30 reports more heavily than lower levels, and by weighting reports by people who report often less than those who report rarely, but for MS to have a system like that to work, you'd require a serious time investment into your Gold membership, and that may or may not work with different game genres and expectations in multiplay across games. It'll be interesting to see if they can make it work, but I don't have high hopes, especially when it's MS putting forth the effort. Although, 3 to 5 years after they release it they should have all the kinks worked out.
