Let's talk about Alliance roulette and ilvl cheese for a sec.

[Helbya]

Alright, but that's a different topic entirely. It's got to do with how CT is handled and such. The exploit, if it exists, isn't the only detriment to that. And the only thing your title affects is the Roulette, hence why you have people here going ham on you.

Title is about "Roulette and ilvl cheese" the thread keeps getting derailed into CT popularity.

You're lying, and lazy

Then help me out here because I must be missing some steps; searching 'alliance' in post titles limited to threads in the last 6 months across all open forum turns up twelve threads, of which only two pertain to this topic.

[Deveryn]

Okay? First of all, and? I didn't mention CT being moved to MSQ roulette. At all. It doesn't take as long as Praetorium AND it's not a 4-man thing, so even if I did, I'd agree with you.

I'm really not sure where you got that from. I agree on you on both topics :I

My apologies. I was responding to the very last sentence of that quote. I was bouncing around back and forth and spotting that other quote. I know we agree, but people new to this need to see.

and as I keep trying to bring the thread back to point; this isn't about the CT raids or their status as being the boring undesired raids for a roulette. But about encouraging players to make themselves available to all content in a roulette so the system works as intended. Orbonne needs players to fill, Bunker needs players. And so people trying to actively run those raids end up with disproportionally long queue times as dozens of CT raids take the players that might've helped those parties fill.
So scale the rewards to the item level at queuing. People who aren't comfortable with the class at 70 can opt for fewer tomes/exp. People who want a quick 'n easy raid can get tomes befitting their effort. Ivalice, Nier, Myths need love too.

Funny thing... I never got to the OP, only started responding because here we are again talking about the cheese and I was seeing the same commentary.
What your suggesting has definitely been brought up. It doesn't really solve a problem. People are going to avoid other raids in favor of CT for any number of reasons.

The search function is super janky. There's two threads in the last 6mo and this is one of 'em.

There should be one more, but that's from more than 6 months ago, as I recall.

Pay no attention to the person calling you a liar

[FireMage]

Title is about "Roulette and ilvl cheese" the thread keeps getting derailed into CT popularity.


Then help me out here because I must be missing some steps; searching 'alliance' in post titles limited to threads in the last 6 months across all open forum turns up twelve threads, of which only two pertain to this topic.

*looks at the recent bumped threads*

Not that hard t-cup. Now again, shut up

[Yeastyloins]

Regardless of if people do this, Crystal Tower would still come up very frequently.

Since I don't want to keep repeating myself, I just recommend watching this video to understand how we would get Crystal Tower a lot even if nobody did this https://youtu.be/RCoooKmF6NU?t=760

Sure, but a REDUCTION in the number of times you end of CT would be greatly appreciated.

[DeNada]

It's just not possible, CT being the only mandatory alliance raid and also the lowest level will mean that it would be the most frequently encountered alliance raid by that virtue, regardless of whether people are cheesing it via ilvl manipulation or not.

[Helbya]

So let it be the most popular, but entice players to make all raids available when they enter the roulette. Sitting in queue for hours at middling populated hours to advance Ivalice or Nier is not okay.

[Saraide]

Sure, but a REDUCTION in the number of times you end of CT would be greatly appreciated.

Not the only possible outcome. This will only happen if the number of people ilvl cheesing has reached a critical amount where they alone are enough to force CT runs that wouldnt have happened otherwise. If they havent reached that critical amount your chances of seeing CT will actually increase because ilvl cheesers can no longer force out non-cheesing people out of the many CT runs that would happen regardless.

If higher level alliance raids were happening, you would get them.

[FireMage]

So let it be the most popular, but entice players to make all raids available when they enter the roulette. Sitting in queue for hours at middling populated hours to advance Ivalice or Nier is not okay.

Undersize it t-cup, and shut up

[BubblyBoar]

I'll suggest the same suggestion I always suggest in this thread. It's up to SE to fix it. But they need to lower the max ilvl in the CT series of raids. We haven't seen mechanics in ST since WoD came out. The ilvl has always been too high and too unrestricted. People will cheese it less if it was just as long as the other raids. And it would be more engaging since it would have mechanics again. How many people in this topic have actually done the adds and platform mechanic for the second boss of ST? Those floating platforms aren't just for show.

[Deveryn]

I'll ask this again and maybe I'll get an answer this time.

What is it that's so important about running Alliance Roulette that things need to change in some of the ways being proposed? What's so special and unique in this roulette?