Quote Originally Posted by Byrth View Post
I think having mandatory events that can be lowmanned at this stage of the game is just kind of an issue in general.

Like, KS99 Wyrm, Fafnir, and Nidhogg can all be killed with a single party. Killing with more than a single party might slightly speed up your kill rate, but not enough to offset the fact that it's no longer purely your pop your drop. Fafnir is an easy duo, let alone with a party. Nidhogg is a harder duo, but honestly not that much harder. By making it a full-out linkshell event, you take the few people who have pop items and could have just gone and killed the monsters together and force them to share the drops that they could have gotten for themselves in a comparable amount of time (assuming there was no event that night) with the rest of the linkshell. Assuming everyone is equally skilled/connected, being in the linkshell has just cost them drops without providing any service.
No one is forced to bring an orb. If you want the LSes help beating the ks99, then you are bound by the rules. If you don't want to follow the rules then dont bring an orb. We also offer points for people who donate their orbs.

Most everyone in our LS just pops theirs on free time, we very rarely do KS99 runs. This is kind of a non-issue really.


If people aren't equally skilled/connected with a system like yours, then some people will only be able pop when your linkshell is doing "an event." In this case, the more skilled/connected players would logically not pop their pops then and the linkshell would basically end up exploiting people who aren't skilled/connected enough to do lowmannable content.
The purpose of doing the low-mannable content is to help the people who can't/won't do it on their own. I wouldn't call that exploiting anyone. The way it usually goes down is that people who have the resources to low man stuff donate their pops for points, and the people who need the drops bid on them. The people who "will only be able to pop when the linkshell is doing an event" wouldn't have the opportunity to pop at all if it wasnt for the LS.

And to be honest, there isn't a lot of this "exploitation" happening. The majority of what we do is stuff like voidwatch. When we do abyssea events it's usually stuff like Bukhis/Apademak/Azdaja which isn't easily low mannalbe by most people, and drops items that lots of people want (+2s as well as emp upgrades). (Yes I know those can dual boxed, but not everyone has the drive/ability to do that)

It's not like linkshell attendance really matters at those lowmannable events, so who are you trying to entice with these optional drops? Why should a WAR have to choose between N.legs and E.body after he blew a thousand KS for a Honey Wine?
Nothing is stopping him from doing a YOYD pickup run on the side, and if he wants both drops then that's probably his best bet.