Feedback related to Vana'Bout

[Dragoy]

There's another another issue, albeit not that important on my end: have registered my name to ranking, albeit around midway of VB. Moogle did say the change would take some time to register. Unfortunately in the end it didn't register at all, despite mine should've met midway. Oh well... ^^;

I suspect you didn't have 1440 plaudits yet at the time you registered?

Perhaps you are lower on the list, if you had enough to still be ranked, but they don't keep track so we need to register again to update the score.

[BobbinT]

I suspect you didn't have 1440 plaudits yet at the time you registered?

Perhaps you are lower on the list, if you had enough to still be ranked, but they don't keep track so we need to register again to update the score.

Haha perhaps that's it, albeit iirc have nearly 1000 when discovering the option to register for ranking. Kinda sux having to reupdate manually tho. Oh well... ^^;

[Alhanelem]

Actually pretty good for those chasing Monberaux.

I hadn't been very diligent about the monthly objectives. I just unlocked him thanks to this vanabout.

[RichLester]

I found this time round, a lot of the objectives were aimed at needing 3 or more people to be online to do battlefields. I barely made 700 plaudits this time round as I usually solo (though did a few battlefields). The month's ambuscade did not help matters, so for me, it was worse this time round & prizes were the same as last time. The 100 deeds for 700 plaudits is always worth it. Also, the overall rewards was only available for a week or so to pick them up, then disappeared on the latest update. The vana'bout website had the timeframe to collect them on there. Always worth checking the website. And SE, please make the double exempler pts campaign a permanent fixture? we all need it.

[BobbinT]

iirc the only non daily VB is just Emptiness @ promy. Personally was lucky seeing shouts doing it for VB & jumped the wagon. Fights even very easy solo.

But yea, the daily BCNM can be quite PitA, if don't do it early then can forget about it till swapped 2 days later, which is a shame since there's certain days where I can't even do them early due to JP daily reset also around my sleep hours. Still glad can still get over 1400+ by the end, as shown on my pics @ previous page. Like I said however, my biggest challenge this time is Ambu, since v1 is not easy, especially if wanna do as party for gallantries, with even v2vd rewards kinda abysmal & don't have the time to do lots of it, sad truth being not young anymore & irl stuff getting bigger the older one gets. ^^;

[Alhanelem]

Now if it was like last time, 21100 job points, that would be a little bit more like it, though of course that was a text error only, which was present during the previous round (proably still is, but can not confirm... and it probably was the Gold tier Job Points reward that had and/or has that issue).

This was s upposed to be exemplar points, plaudits x100

It was fixed for round 4, the job points is some fraction of plaudits, you get around 100 or so after meeting the minimum

[Tokimemofan]

iirc the only non daily VB is just Emptiness @ promy. Personally was lucky seeing shouts doing it for VB & jumped the wagon. Fights even very easy solo.

But yea, the daily BCNM can be quite PitA, if don't do it early then can forget about it till swapped 2 days later, which is a shame since there's certain days where I can't even do them early due to JP daily reset also around my sleep hours. Still glad can still get over 1400+ by the end, as shown on my pics @ previous page. Like I said however, my biggest challenge this time is Ambu, since v1 is not easy, especially if wanna do as party for gallantries, with even v2vd rewards kinda abysmal & don't have the time to do lots of it, sad truth being not young anymore & irl stuff getting bigger the older one gets. ^^;

I never had an issue getting a party for any of the daily’s even at weird hours. The key always seemed to be to have the entry item already, if I put ki provided in my yell I would usually have a full party in about 10 minutes. Emptyness though was another matter, often someone will forget ki or be on lockout or get lost in promy of god knows what else. I’m glad that was no longer a daily for round 4. I still would like to see fewer repeat objectives and less clustering around login points and ambuscade.

[RichLester]

Next time, I would like to see objectives like "Kill 20 monsters in any Abyssea" or "Participate in a campaign battle" for 30 plaudits each, "Synthesize 10 Alchemy items" for 10 plaudits each. That kinda thing

[Alhanelem]

Yeah, I mean we wouldn't want people doing any actual content or anything now...

the low level BCNMs were a mild inconvenience- and many can be soloed by pet kiting with summoner. The event BCs are all stupidly easy. I had no problem with most of the objectives in this round. For me the least liked objective was probably the ENM objective. Those weren't even that popular when they were new, due to the inconvenience of accessing those areas, and even though those zones are now uncapped, there is still no home point for those BC areas.

[Zenion]

I just don't like BCNMs in general as objectives. Beastmen's seals are for Up In Arms, all other crests and seals are for trading in in for beastmen's seals during 2:1 campaigns; saying "no, you have to spend 20 of those seals you're hoarding to do this one" just doesn't sit well with me. Having to spend login points kind of sucks too, but at least with those you don't have any better use for them most months anyway (except more seals, for more Up In Arms, for more treasure pools with no kraken club in them...)

Which takes me back to the complaint I still have about the whole thing: If I decide I'm not spending my beastmen's seals, and I can't get 20 plaudits for that objective, that's okay. If I can't get a further 20 plaudits because that objective is still lingering and taking up the spot tomorrow, that's not okay.

It's not even about how many points you can or can not get over the event - though if you want the mulcibar's scoria at the end, you have a lot less freedom to skip impractical or distasteful objectives than you think. It's about the message, that "how can you have any meat if you don't eat your pudding" mentality. It's a game, I am paying to play, don't condescend to judge and punish me for deciding that I don't want to (or simply can't) do some task. The appropriate response is to not award points for a task not completed, not to spitefully deny access to another, potentially more desirable task, that should have been offered tomorrow.

I mean really, if the goal is to make people really want to push to complete every objective no matter how they feel about it, reduce the value of the slot and then give a streak bonus for completing consecutive objectives from that pool. Turn it from a penalty for missed tasks to a reward for consistently completed ones. People like rewards, and they dislike penalties.