Quote Originally Posted by Alucard135 View Post
Read the above and explain the timelines. Also, I never said there weren't wanderers leeching or that they are contributing to the progress. They were only leeching during the 1-2hrs of the FATE times. Other than that, wanderers that remained there were helping. Else you'd have the contradiction I explained above. So now those claiming that there was no contribution from wanderers in general, would have to provide their proof. Just simply saying P3 took more than P1 and P2 is not enough unless you know exactly how long is P3 compared to P1 and P2.
Balmung's progress tells us how long Stage 3 was in comparison to Stage 1 and Stage 2. Balmung had Stage 2 completed early Wednesday morning and was at work on Stage 3. They didn't complete Stage 3 until Friday morning. It only makes sense that worlds with smaller populations should see the same progress in proportion. Guess what? We are.

I'm not saying that no wanderers contributed at all. I'm saying the contribution was negligible compared to the contribution by home world players. No world needed help in the first place when most worlds are already done with the current stages less than a week after release.

Will cross world assistance be helpful later down the road when the content is no longer fresh and interest has died down? Possibly. But SE needs to design the content to give everyone a reasonable chance to participate in building their home world's Firmament first. Only when a world is falling drastically behind should cross world access be allowed.

And by drastically behind, I mean a world doesn't have the all the old stages from previous patches completed when a new set of stages gets added in a new patch. We're not even a week into this yet and most worlds are done with the stages currently available. That's ridiculous.