Quote Originally Posted by Hestzhyen View Post
getting rewarded for doing nothing is awful design.
But why are you doing nothing in the train? You help by killing the mobs that spawn the NM with the train. And if the mobs are a lot higher in level than you, you can just grab a group of 8 and go prep an NM that is around your level or less by killing 30 of the mobs that spawn it (the spawn time is random but very quick in Anemos and Pyros, unlike Pagos). That's how it was designed to spawn NMs (according to the theories lol). So in a way you made your own little train that YOU control its direction and timing. You don't have to be tied to the huge NM train if you're not doing anything in it. And if you still can't kill mobs around your level in a group of 8 and spawn NMs....then I don't know what to say here lol. The difficulty of the mobs and their mechanics there is even less than alphascape normal mode. So that should be considered a content that can be taken by casuals (a group of 8 managed to solo Penny).

On release day, since everyone is around the same level, almost everyone contributes in spawning NMs. Once the level gap grows, that's where you tend to see the AFKers in the train. Now I'm not gonna hate on the train cuz a lot of people AFK in it. It's not my business how they wanna play the content. No matter how interesting and fun a content is, if people find a way to do it without effort, they will do it like that (This is why you'll find mentors in mentor roulette drop out from EX trials as soon as they enter just cuz they don't wanna bother teaching sprouts about the content. They just want a quick way to get the 2000 roulettes).