Let Skirmish scale to party size

There's gonna be two islands. My question is will one island force you to have only 4 members while the other makes you go with 8 or can both islands be challenged with 4-8 members?

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Originally Posted by ArkNova

There's gonna be two islands. My question is will one island force you to have only 4 members while the other makes you go with 8 or can both islands be challenged with 4-8 members?

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Eorzean Alliance Drills:

In this particular case it should scale down, to "Drill" you with the accurate amount of strength. That's how I hope it will go. If not Its cool.

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Originally Posted by ArkNova

There's gonna be two islands. My question is will one island force you to have only 4 members while the other makes you go with 8 or can both islands be challenged with 4-8 members?

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Knowing SE both will probably be 4-8. At this point the content til 2.0 is just filler, so SE figures "Let's make them have to shout in Ul'Dah or require a linkshell to do any of this content! Why would we allow them to just be able to group with a couple friends! :)"

I'm guessing the content is too far along in development to change it now, scaling would be nice in all content IMO, but I guess thats something we can hope for in 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Asiaine

4-8 players does not mean it scales for 4-8 people. It (usually) means that it is designed with 8 in mind, but 4 can go in nonetheless.

Kind of like CC/AV is 4-8, but not sure many people complete it with just 4.

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Exactly... I don't know why people keep quoting the fact that it says 4-8 and forget we have plenty of areas where it allows this and does not scale -_-

Let's hope it does scale and allow same reward/droprate/what have you.

^ They could incorporate the point system that Hamlet uses, this way even if you are a small team and do really well you still get good rewards and vice versa for a 8 man team who does really badly.

In fact I would much prefer that point system than current speed runs in instances also.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

8 people= Normal
6 people = Challenge
4 people= Impossibru

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Fixed for you

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Originally Posted by Jinko

^ They could incorporate the point system that Hamlet uses, this way even if you are a small team and do really well you still get good rewards and vice versa for a 8 man team who does really badly.

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This is a good idea. The smaller the party is the more extra points it get.

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Originally Posted by Fear

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Originally Posted by Starlord

8 people= Normal
6 people = Challenge
4 people= Extreme

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Fixed for you

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fixed it more ^^

Hopefully, entering with 4 people will give you a normal difficulty, and if you enter with 8 people the difficulty (eitther mob amount or mob level) will scale up so that it's still normal difficulty. If you enter with 3 or 2, it would still be possible, but harder than with 4. Maybe if you were real hardcore, you could solo it.

That would be an all right way of doing it, if you ask me.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

I'm guessing the content is too far along in development to change it now, scaling would be nice in all content IMO, but I guess thats something we can hope for in 2.0.

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Likely, but there isn't an excuse for punishing casual players who don't wanna run with endgame linkshells. (Not saying Im one of those)