Quote Originally Posted by detlef View Post
You have such a condescending attitude in all of your posts. Once people are at the fight, they are pretty much committed to the fight. Most people can't afford to warp and try a different strategy because 75k bayld is a significant investment. Once you're in the battlefield, that's it, you're not leaving. If the battle looks like it's not going well, realistically you have three options: keep slogging along, afk, or log out. In most cases, warping is not an option. On my server, the general attitude is to tough it out and hope the JPs with their army of CORs log on and kill it. That's just reality.
Then the reality is not to enter the field until and if those who can actually handle the fight are there to do so.

And if that means a horde of JP players, then that's just a statement on the sad state of affairs in the NA playerbase.

If you have only a narrow chance of success with the conditions at hand and start anyway, then yes, I do look down on that. It's stupid, foolish, and wasteful of your previous efforts. The mob takes more effort than than what you can generate- stop getting on the court if you can't play ball, hoping that mysterious strangers from the East will kill it for you. Communicate. Plan it out and get in the game with the rest of the "team" that can fight and win- as noted, it's a public fight. If you're going to sit there until they show up anyway flailing and hoping that LOLRANDOM players aren't going to wipe you off the face of Vana'diel, then why not save the effort and open channels of communication with the people who can do the job? Offer to help, find out when they're doing things. Stop trying to "depend" on people who clearly can't fight the fight.

Or sit there for hours frustrated and waste a pile of bayld if you're not lucky. Which is the better plan?