A possible way to improve player commendations.

[Eidolon]

While I'm not sure how feasible this system is (IT's really not a bad idea to put this as a second/third line to, say, new players/etc), I would prefer if the devs first worked on the fact that I can only give 1 commendation.

I DESIRE TO COMMENDATE EVERYONE O:< DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE. I LOVE YOU ALL.

[Twilite]

Indeed. A -Comm all- would be nice.


I still wonder how I got all comms from everyone in the group from my early days in BLM before I met my BLM teacher.

Sounds like commendation abuse. I don't like the idea at all. If all the good players are getting pooled together then there is less motivation for new players and players struggling with the game will never get matched with skilled players who can guide them.

The commendation system is fine how it is.

You're now my favorite player for the rest of how ever long my mind will remember. :P

[LadyVal]

Also keep in mind, commending is a one-way process. Just because you comm your healer, does not mean they commed you... or want to heal you again...

Not that I'm speaking from personal experience or anything. >_>

[loreleidiangelo]

I think a reasonably easy fix to my PERSONAL dissatisfaction with comms would be to just let people give more than one. Always saddens me a bit when I have a good dungeon or 8-man run and I can't let everyone know they were fabulous.

In regards to the current commendation rewards, they're a bit of a joke right now IMO, as all you have to do to earn them is spam roulettes as a tank job and they come at you in buttloads. So adding future things to "do" with comms seems like a wasted effort unless something is actuàlly done to make the commendation system an accurate reflection of performance or attitude.

[Judge_Xero]

Sounds like commendation abuse. I don't like the idea at all. If all the good players are getting pooled together then there is less motivation for new players and players struggling with the game will never get matched with skilled players who can guide them.

The commendation system is fine how it is.

This is the single most important reason why OP's suggestion wouldn't work.

[Gunspec]

When you leave a commendation you get the ability to be rematched with that said player. This would help create a much better and more stable DF.

I'm not sure how adding more complicated matching algorithms equates a "more stable DF". Unless you mean stable to describe player relations and not in an infrastructure type way.

Also, if this was true, I probably wouldn't give out commendations nearly as often as I do. A lot of times when I have a bad group, I'll commend the guy who seemed to be pulling the others out of the fire a lot, but he might not necessarily be a player I want to see again. Likewise, I would be throwing commendations to people who are well geared, in the hopes that I'd get groups that could steamroll expert dungeons rather than spend 5 minutes on a pack of mobs. I certainly wouldn't commend the "new tank" who is trying his best but just barely making the grade, if I knew I'd see him in the next 3 dungeons.

Cross-server friend lists, cross-server queuing, and the ability to run another dungeon with the people you just ran the dungeon with: those would be features that would add to DF community. Not more rules on how merit points work.

[Jetstream_Fox]

Sounds like commendation abuse. I don't like the idea at all. If all the good players are getting pooled together then there is less motivation for new players and players struggling with the game will never get matched with skilled players who can guide them.

The commendation system is fine how it is.

I don't see how it would be abused. Granted there is flaws with the idea like everything in this game, as others have pointed out but abused? No way. The entire purpose of commendations is to reward players who played good for whatever grounds you justify, whether that's class knowledge, playing with new players or even joining in progress, you still have control over who you give it to.

[xJimmehx]

Why not just add a negative stat for commends, call it 'condemn' for sake of discussion. Then instead of commeding good players so they party with you again specifically. You could commend them so everyone who has high commends and or zero condemns plays together?
basically if your a troll or hateful person, youll most likely have a lot of condemns and there fore will not get in lobbys with players who have little to no condemns. (new players dont get forced in with the baddies!((Because they start with 0 condemns)))

Recommending could also give rewards as well, so people would not just walk out without even caring.

[Spawnie]

am i the only 1 who doesnt really care about commendations?? lol ill always give healer 1 b4 i leave unless he/she is an ass but dont even care if i get them or not lol dont even know how many i have .-.

[kuma_aus]

I have never been in a duty finder instance and thought "Wow I really want to do another dungeon with this player". So if the system OP wants was in the game I would literally never use Commendations otherwise I might end up stuck playing with people I don't want to.