Cosmic Exploration is CASUAL content with a pinch of midcore

[s32ialx]

I would say its more that Dynamis is where new players are going, as in those who don't have experience with all the harder parts of crafting and likely don't have much gil to their name to buy the things they want or need. (With higher marked up prices on everything no less.)

Being under-geared and under-funded probably makes failing the phases even worse because they have to contend with not only a lack of people, but provisions too. I doubt there's a lot of them carrying around stacks of food, cordials, or even basic materia (pentameld or not).

They can't even fallback on just data center hopping like everything else either, because the content is locked per world, and just telling them to "farm gil then" isn't the glowing endorsement for the game's content that some people want to think it is.
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If you've been fortunate enough to be surrounded by nothing but sweethearts throughout your time playing the game, good for you, but that hasn't been my experience at all, at least not when trying to do raids or PVP on Aether and Primal. I don't know about Crystal, I only go there to shop. (Though I do make the conscious decision to skip Balmung even if it has the cheapest price ...just in case.)

And what sanctions? It's not like GMs actually care so its pointless to report it, not that filling a ticket is a simple matter anyway.

Actually GM's do care to a point if you actually report I have been sent to Morden Gaol a couple times already over players twisting my words which just gave me the reason to turn it around and report them instead since I save logs in screenshots of conversations which are timestamped.

[s32ialx]

If you say so, but these days I prefer to just stay quiet and keep group content to a bare minimum so I don't invite any rudeness to begin with, or feel like I was dragging other people down.

Which makes for a twisted irony that I spend time on Dynamis more than ever, but there's nobody here anyway so the game just remains perpetually lonely or feeling like a single player game with the occasional multiplayer lobby.

* head pets * I am sorry that people have treated you poorly.

[Gurgeh]

* head pets * I am sorry that people have treated you poorly.

Aidrogue. For what it's worth if this person isn't being genuine they're a twat. But maybe they are being genuine, in which case 'cool'.
That's what the game used to be like. Someone said something nice, and you "didn't" think they were probably being a total republican.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

One thing that I'd like them to do is to decouple the Lunar Credits bonus off the relic weapon. Keeping them means I'd feel inclined to keep them somewhere attainable in future expansions should I want to farm the currency.

[...]If you've been fortunate enough to be surrounded by nothing but sweethearts throughout your time playing the game, good for you, but that hasn't been my experience at all, at least not when trying to do raids or PVP on Aether and Primal. I don't know about Crystal, I only go there to shop. (Though I do make the conscious decision to skip Balmung even if it has the cheapest price ...just in case.)

And what sanctions? It's not like GMs actually care so its pointless to report it, not that filling a ticket is a simple matter anyway.

Sh!tty players are going to be sh!tty regardless of the reason. Since you've regaled your tales aplenty of time, I think I'd like to add mine that comes from the opposing spectrum as well. For once I was accused for being 'mentally ill' when I tried to correct a misinformation & after this offender learned during the same run of DRN that I've cleared all ShB relics at Augmented Order phase when it was the current patch. Suffice to say, that amuses me and earns them an insta-report.

That being said, GMs do respond.... just not in a priority that people probably would expect. lol