Mythos Farming Are Toxic

[Shirai]

Wow... You must have extremely bad luck or your server group is extremely bad.

Reason i ask this is because a lot of topics I see pop up about a toxic community spawn from a single incident.
I haven't had a Brayflox's run at all where people bailed after the second boss, and I have kicked only 1 person for toxic behaviour ever since vote kick was introduced.

[joshsecret]

not an issue. please move along. nothing to see here!

[Merle]

I'd say they were learning from their mistakes if I hadn't seen this happen so many times with them to not believe it's just a planned bottleneck they relax when their spreadsheets tell them the players aren't where they forecasted them to be at a certain date.

It is, it is... "this content needs to make people busy until X date, so lets are bottlenecks to make them waste time".

Because... why design content to make you busy while having fun when you can implement bottlenecks or useless content *cough cough* fate atmas *cough cough*?

[Grizzlebeard]

not an issue. please move along. nothing to see here!

Isn't it past your bedtime?

[Akujin]

See, there's a problem here, as I sat pondering it.

If they made a sort of penalty, in which if you depart a dungeon after a period of time, after joining in Roulette, that your bonus for the day is considered spent. Then they would have to make it so that it did not affect players who were unfortunately disconnected due to a server or client side error, such as a power failure, or 90k. The only way it would be valid is if it was an intentional abandonment of the run. However, this would lead to some players simply shutting down the client completely, restarting it and circumventing that.

Unless SE chose to penalize a person for abruptly leaving an instance regardless of the reason, but while that would cause some people to get ticked off and a handful may actually take it as a slap in the face and unsubscribe. I believe the majority would approve the change and remain. .

The thing is, those that would abandon the game over a change like that, quite simply, are worthless anyways and simply want the easiest method possible to push through content. As someone else stated, it takes a few extra minutes to finish the last piece of the dungeon anyways. If whoever these tanks, healers, or dps are that are leaving midway would pick up and leave the game, in the end as a whole we'd be better off without them clogging up the system for players who do want to engage the content through the end.

Party Finder was designed for people who had specific plans for the dungeons, whether they are 1 room EXP farms, such as with AV or Darkhold, or a SR that focuses only up to the 2nd boss in Brayflox, or Main Scenario farming (relevant when it was 100 philosphy) and skipping cutscenes was specifically mentioned in the comment section. But Duty Finder is, has been and should remain so, as the dungeon is.

So I feel for you OP, I've honestly never had it happen during an expert roulette (I tend to get stuck with Township anyways), but I agree it's ridiculous and should be addressed, severely, to discourage further behavior from being repeated. They may be a little timid to go too severe with their method since the game's only a year old since the relaunch and they're still trying to build up a favorable impression with the gaming community as a whole. But at the same time, I believe they do owe something towards their current customers foremost, before considering potential customers in the future. Because if future customers are discouraged by that type of penalty, it could be assumed they would do similar things in the future and further frustrate the part of the community who genuinely want to clear content as it was meant to be.

[Merle]

it's just a planned bottleneck they relax when their spreadsheets tell them the players aren't where they forecasted them to be at a certain date.

It is, it is: "this content needs to make people busy until X date, so lets add bottlenecks to make them waste time".

why design content to make you busy while having fun when you can implement bottlenecks or useless content *cough cough* fate atmas *cough cough*?

you miss out the Roulette Bonus...

25 soldiery tomestones? in the same time you got unlucky and tank/healer left the instance you could do 2 brayflox.

You sign up to run the full run when you hit the commence button.

I agree. Yet one GM (or Yoshida, i don't remember) said that they can't stop someone from being afk on a dungeon because they "don't have to" complete the dungeon. When you hit the commence button you agree to join, not to complete it (i know, it's a stupid move).

[joshsecret]

Isn't it past your bedtime?

no, your mom said i could stay up. silly wabbit!

[LunarCain]

See, there's a problem here, as I sat pondering it.

If they made a sort of penalty, in which if you depart a dungeon after a period of time, after joining in Roulette, that your bonus for the day is considered spent. Then they would have to make it so that it did not affect players who were unfortunately disconnected due to a server or client side error, such as a power failure, or 90k. The only way it would be valid is if it was an intentional abandonment of the run. However, this would lead to some players simply shutting down the client completely, restarting it and circumventing that.

Etc etc etc

Best Reply in this Thread i Created and i support this and damn its long to read but worth ._.

[Moqi]

Agreed. Getting myth isn't even that time consuming. I have never farmed them and I still capped them quickly after I stopped using them.

[PROBOUND]

Report them. Let them waste even more time while banned.

Why would you report them? Is leaving a duty (With penalty) against the terms of service?