Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[Luthiene]

Queued leveling roulette as DNC. My main is WHM.

We end up getting The Navel and I'm thinking, "Great, this should go quickly."

I was wrong.

I think we wiped approximately 10 times. We had a WHM who I don't think casted Regen a single time, I don't ever recall seeing a Medica go up until maybe the last attempt. At one point the tank suggests they use Regen instead of spamming Cure over and over and that apparently just goes entirely unheeded.

People keep getting yeeted off the ledge, even after being told not to stand inside the red line but next to it.

I'm popping my one DNC heal to keep the tank alive.

They did apologize once we cleared it, but man...when people are giving you advice and it's just completely ignored it gets irritating.

[Mavrias]

I said often, not always. My point is that breaking rules is always risky. The question is not whether or not it's risky, but rather how much risk is involved.

But no one asked about the risk. The question is "why report someone for skipping cutscenes as its not harming anyone (unless there are sprouts)?" Just cause "its an exploit" is not a very good reason. Are you reporting people doing the floating item trick in their houses for expoiting, as well?

[Bright-Flower]

Apples and oranges, floating items in houses don't affect gameplay.

[DumdogsWorld]

But no one asked about the risk.

Okay. But I mentioned it anyway. *shrugs*

Are you reporting people doing the floating item trick in their houses for expoiting, as well?

I'm not reporting anyone. Outside of the right-click option for reporting RMT, I've never reported anyone. However, there are many people other than me out there who are more than willing to report you for such exploits, and acknowledging the fact may possibly benefit you.

[Banriikku]

Simple- floating items are not against the rules - skipping is. You accepted the ToS. *shrug*

[hasana]

Apples and oranges, floating items in houses don't affect gameplay.

Unless he pulls early, someone skipping cutscenes won't affect gameplay either.

[Tlamila]

Yes, someone skipping ahead and triggering stuff in advance because of exploits affects the whole group.
Also, not sure about you but I don't like people who cheat. I also report gold sellers, sue me.
It's hilarious that reporting someone who goes against the rules now makes you a bad person, rather than breaking the rules.

[WrenElessedil]

But no one asked about the risk. The question is "why report someone for skipping cutscenes as its not harming anyone (unless there are sprouts)?" Just cause "its an exploit" is not a very good reason. Are you reporting people doing the floating item trick in their houses for expoiting, as well?

If some people are allowed to break the rules, then there's no reason everyone shouldn't be allowed to break the rules. And if everyone is allowed to break the rules, then the system fails, and things are back to where they started before SE implemented the unskippable cutscenes.

If you don't want to put in the time for MSQ roulette, DON'T QUEUE FOR IT. It is a very easy concept to understand. The rewards for it are based on the unskippable cutscenes, so no one has any right to complain about having to watch the cutscenes if they want those rewards.

[PeppermintBrown]

Unless he pulls early, someone skipping cutscenes won't affect gameplay either.

Do you think that the people who are skipping the cutscenes intentionally are then patiently standing by for other people to finish the cutscenes before pulling? If they were nobody would even know they were skipping unless they admitted to it.

[Tlamila]

Do you think that the people who are skipping the cutscenes intentionally are then patiently standing by for other people to finish the cutscenes before pulling? If they were nobody would even know they were skipping unless they admitted to it.

Yup. And in this case it was also funny because the guy died, since he was running around alone, and then cried for a res.