Quote Originally Posted by LisSquid View Post
To be fair, you can use the in-game metrics to prove you had a reasonable need to boot someone. Was this person running around with res sickness the entire time? Were they ignoring calls? How many vuln snacks did they consume every pull? Were they using (visible) buffs as they should? Doing any of this does fall under the greenlight to kick, and no GM is going to think you did so because of ACT. Trust, if their dps is so bad that they're holding you back from a clear, then the in-game data available to players will match up with this.

Definitely, but ACT also essentially enables an external and public repository of fight data. It ends up functioning a bit like a resume, and often allows you to save yourself a lot of time and frustration while recruiting.

For example, while putting together my current Ultimate group, I had 4-5 people apply that had extremely bad logs; When I say bad, I mean like they die 3-4 times in every fight of every 24-man and struggle to even finish their basic combos. Without an external resume, I would have had to take these people at their word that they're ultimate ready, and then try to schedule a trial with the other members of the group. That can quickly balloon into a lot of man-hours wasted just to find out someone was taking the piss and is a totally unviable player.


PUGs are a crapshoot though. People really shouldn't kick over logs alone unless it's really bad. I always try to give people a chance in PUGs, and sometimes you just have to embrace the chaos for what it is.