Marriage Roulette

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Originally Posted by Savvy

Did she say she was running out of things to do? She actually didn't say that at all. I'm pretty sure she said that they enjoy doing the roulettes and it's what drives them in the game, and since they have limited time to play they would like to be able to do those things that they enjoy in the game, together. Not just the expert roulettes.

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2 posts, and 10/10 on each answers from you ^^

You got my commends (like)à

If you don't have friends, come play with us on Gilgamesh! ;) (then we would be blocked for certain roulettes lololol)

Wow this got serious quickly. Wish there were more benefits to being married. Then I would get married again. So many possibilities.

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Originally Posted by Selli

*Reads the first page*

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I'm a WHM and my boyfriend is a PLD/DRK, what do you mean we're suddenly a stereotype. D:

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Exactly ^^

Seems lots thought this game was played by single-guys only lol

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Originally Posted by basketofseals

The purpose of roulettes is to benefit those that have little or no in game contacts. The OP has my sympathy definitely. I have a few people I've recruited and I'm kinda sad I can't do the leveling roulette with them, but if people were allowed to duo in lower roulettes, I guarantee there'd be a significant increase in queue times.

I've always done OTL

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Ty for the sympathy ^^

my Bf's been in older FC, and even if you are 200+, everyone is doing 'their own thing' and different timezones etc.. so even looking for 2 members when he was playing with someone else before, was a pain...

So we went the route of a small FC, but helpful.

now, let's say 4-8 real friends decided to play this game.

They create their FC, and do all contents together. No one is helping anyone outside their FC.

Does that benefits everyone? not at all. Can they do it? Of course! That's their prerogative to even play this game!

So yeah, to each their own.

Just prays SE will answer this one with a nice (we'll send it to the DEVs so they can look into what they can do with their limited allowed time ^^ )

what can we say, we love to help new people and older to whatever they need, except giving gil lol

But when no ones around, we play.. together (sacrilege!)

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Originally Posted by EnoraTaqa

Roulette Expert, lvl 60 and 50 would like to have a talk with you.

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And there are two things I would say in response:
1. There are more people at cap than are leveling. More people = more combinations = easier to make teams
2. Ever notice the queue times on Expert v Leveling? I rest my case.

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Originally Posted by IndigoHawk

Marriage roulette is an alright idea, but I'd rather open up the feature to everyone to queue in partial groups instead of limit it to married couples.

I rarely do the solo roulettes anymore because I'm busy doing group things. If the roulettes allowed partial groups, I would be able to do the roulettes more often and help out people who need groups.

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Works for me!

I just 'proposed' ;) so that we can debate on stuff.

I honestly see no problem with a roulette like this. However, if you queue with randoms (say the couple is the tank/healer duo), people expect everyone to know what they are doing, and/or have a basic grasp on how your job works by the time you hit endgame. The only problem(s) I see are: When healer isn't actually doing a good job of keeping people alive; Tank isn't trying to keep hate up... (Yes, I've ran into couples like these in expert and level 60 the last few weeks when I'm queued as Bard). I voice my concerns (in a polite manner) saying something about trying to be better. I got kicked once saying something in a civil manner, because the healer was so, so bad. I attempted to give advice to this person, and I got kicked, because of the majority vote of vote kick, and them being a couple and such. That is the only issue I see with couples queued together in dungeons (not saying everyone is like this. I've ran with a bunch of couples that were awesome sauce).

There'll always be bad and good sides to a topic. I just wanted to leave my opinion about this topic here. Please don't take offense to it. ; ;

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Originally Posted by Miste

You guys are making some massive generalizations here about couples playing this game together...it's kind of ridiculous to throw everyone into one pot.

You know nothing about OP's relationship yet you declare they always "must" want to play with each other just because they asked to do some roulettes together. Also saying people who constantly play together are automatically worse players....like I don't get where people make this stuff up from.

Unhealthy? The only unhealthy thing is the fact you guys are putting down fellow players for being in a relationship where they enjoy playing with each other. You have no basis for telling other people when too much time together is too much. You are not their therapists and you don't know their life or even remotely who they are since this is the internet.

My boyfriend and I spend time together on this game, and we also spend a lot of time doing our own thing. We don't like all the same content so I do stuff on my own a lot. He does stuff on his own that I don't like as much. Sometimes I do stuff with him that he enjoys even if I don't care for it just to spend some extra time and vice versa.

But you know what? Even I have thought at some points I wish I could queue together with BF today. All the time? Likely not, I don't even do the roulettes on a consistent basis and neither does he.

Will SE do it? I don't know. It isn't a deal breaker for me so I don't really mind either way, but these responses were pretty rude if you ask me (like calling people clingy, and worse players; those things add nothing to the discussion).

You cannot just make tons of generalizations about couples or say your own relationship is the only way it works. Everyone is different, our lives are all different, our relationships are all different.

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Ty, that's exactly it ^^ /wipes tears

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Originally Posted by PArcher

I may get some flack, but I really dislike people who *must* play with a specific person for everything. You're a far worse player for doing that, not in a community sense but a personal sense. Playing with randoms teaches adaptation and gets you used to having to think on your feet.

Met far too many who say they're an amazing healer/tank...but only with their tank/healer partner; anyone else and they become a complete noob at their role.

There's also something unhealthy about always needing to play with a specific person, so much that not being with them causes distress.

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Playing with the painfully idiotic lemmings in Duty Finder doesn't make you a better player, it just makes you a better babysitter, especially as a healer.

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Originally Posted by EnoraTaqa

Lol tell me beyond Soloers (which the games leans toward) Who's limited? Couples are underrated here, not the opposite lol

And besides teleporting quickly once per 30 mins outside instances, tell me the perks of being married in this game?

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Why do they have to be married? Why can't pairs of friends join too? It's such a weird, arbitrary restriction to suggest. Admittedly such restrictions seem popular with the team so it might give it a better chance ;p

To be honest I think they balanced the marriage stuff pretty well in terms of making it satisfying without making everyone who isn't married feel as though they're missing out on something essential. The ring is great, the sentimental items and clothes are great, the mount is hilarious and we had a lot of fun getting together with our friends when my wife and I married in game.

In any case, I feel being part of a couple is its own reward which doesn't need incentivising further. Loosening the roulette restrictions is fine as per your other suggestion, but there's no need to leave anyone out.

(Anecdotally on my server most of the players in DF are incredible and even when I work hard I often come away feeling as though I was carried. Whereas playing with my real partner (and our friends) was a hilarious bloodbath of overconfidence and quick learning right from the beginning. There are cultural differences in play here, obviously, but I'm pretty sure I've learnt more from playing with someone who isn't afraid to scream "What on earth are you doing?!" mid-fight than a bunch of highly capable strangers. No need for people to judge others for the way they choose to become skilled at their role.)