Failed to contribute to Caravan.

I just finished choco-caravans with a party and had gone to collect the reward as usual, when yet again i'm smacked in the face with this message.

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Drybone caravan escort duty complete!
You failed to contribute to safety of the caravan.

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I'm assuming this was a type of countermeasure against leechers added in the recent patch... But gosh..

The feeling of frustration is quite hard to describe after having dedicated 15 minutes of actively defending the caravan with a party, yet not only to be denied any compensation for the time invested but to be outright told that you didn't contribute. Bullshit.

I'm not certain as to how this is worked out by the servers, but i am certain in that it simply is not working.

What class/job were you at the time? If you were, say, a WHM, maybe you didn't get it because you weren't directly attacking the mobs. I could see SE making a dumb mistake like this.

Oh ho ho, this reeks of ye olde bad campaign rewards back in early WoTG FFXI days...

Well... people asked for this.....

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Originally Posted by Masamune1004

What class/job were you at the time? If you were, say, a WHM, maybe you didn't get it because you weren't directly attacking the mobs. I could see SE making a dumb mistake like this.

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Funnily enough, i was actually nuking as Black Mage, thus making this situation even more absurd.
But even then, penalizing a support job such as whm for not dealing enough damage seems pretty ridiculous. Especially when considering the possibility of small group runs, where keeping everyone alive is more taxing and a higher priority.

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