Low effort Praetorium improvement

Start a blind survey in the beginning. When everyone says skip, cutscenes will be skipped and reward lowered. If at least one guys says no skip, we have the current approach. Everyone needs to wait. But high reward like always. But nobody should see, who voted which.

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Originally Posted by Varilyon

Start a blind survey in the beginning. When everyone says skip, cutscenes will be skipped and reward lowered. If at least one guys says no skip, we have the current approach. Everyone needs to wait. But high reward like always. But nobody should see, who voted which.

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but what would be the point then
only do prae/castrum for the big rewards so you'll just get people who want the huge rewards and never skip
so youll just annoy the one person who clicked skipped a

Just delete the roulette already and turn them into solo MSQ duty.

Don’t forget to add “Very Easy” mode, too.

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Originally Posted by Varilyon

Start a blind survey in the beginning. When everyone says skip, cutscenes will be skipped and reward lowered. If at least one guys says no skip, we have the current approach. Everyone needs to wait. But high reward like always. But nobody should see, who voted which.

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The problem with this, and with all the people saying things like "if no sprouts you can skip", is that it fails to manage expectations.
When you queue up for main story quest roulette (or praetorium specifically) you know exactly what to expect. The cutscenes cannot be skipped, so allocate the time necessary to complete the dungeon. Otherwise you end up with people having a 50/50 chance of speed running it, and they're bitter whiners if they can't run it the way they prefer.

As far as my original post, people are calling for big major changes to how the dungeon works and what not. The original post I made was specifically about skipping the step to authenticate yourself for magitech armor because that's something that trips up a lot of new players, and adds nothing to the experience other than (sometimes) frustration.

Taliesin (a YouTuber/streamer) had some pretty good suggestions in this video: https://youtu.be/mKJ3q8qae3g

For those who understandably don't want to watch a 35 minute video, the summary is:

1. Buff boss health to improve the combat/cut scene ratio
2. Move most of the dialog out of cut scenes and into dialog bubbles that pop up in the middle of the trash clears so that we're not standing around for several minutes listening to a monologue

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Originally Posted by Ronduwil

Taliesin (a YouTuber/streamer) had some pretty good suggestions in this video: https://youtu.be/mKJ3q8qae3g

For those who understandably don't want to watch a 35 minute video, the summary is:

1. Buff boss health to improve the combat/cut scene ratio
2. Move most of the dialog out of cut scenes and into dialog bubbles that pop up in the middle of the trash clears so that we're not standing around for several minutes listening to a monologue

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Number 2 would be great for castrum IMO. Not so much with Prae since they really want that movie cliche of villians giving speeches while talking about their evil plans while the heroes just stand there watching instead of just punching them in the face. Also the prae cutscenes are good for snacks and usage of the litterbox.

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Just delete the roulette already and turn them into solo MSQ duty.

Don’t forget to add “Very Easy” mode, too.

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I think they could do a sort of Trust system. Get you 7 other NPCs, some pulled from Grand Companies, other Scions (great place to introduce Arenvald), and still others from various quests.

It's be a butt to program it, but it would allow them to remove the roulette, let people watch the cutscenes on their own time, break the dungeon into smaller chunks, and have new players experience it a bit closer to how it was intended rather than have 7 overgeared level 80s mow everything to the ground.

I can't make quotes appear on silly old phone-posting, but I agree with Ronduwil's mentioned suggestion of making some un-voiced or less relevant conversation shifted to overworld dialogue. Even as a new player while I enjoyed the thrilling run of going through big lore moments in the way they were presented, some things like Cid's dialogues in CM really broke the flow. I like you, Cid... But why make me stand rigid in place while you talk? The situation is urgent,.and you know it too!