Leaving a FATE early

[Zfz]

people should be able to choose how they spend their time earning their xp, and if that means bailing in the middle of a FATE to go work on another one, so be it

People should be able to, yes, but not if the mechanism of that choice harms others.

How about this:

Each player can only maintain contribution on 1 FATE at any given time. And when you enter a new FATE, your old contribution are lost forever. On top of that, if you are outside the FATE radius when it fails, you get no rewards. Only those inside the radius of a failed FATE would get the rewards.

This way people who die and run back have it the way they are now. (Although they need to be careful not to cross any new FATEs.) But people who leave early for another FATE will have to wander outside the new FATE and wait for the previous one to finish. If so many people leave that the previous FATE fails, they got nothing while those who stayed at least got something.

[Kaloran]

I played WAR as well, and it wasn't that good of a way to handle it. I'm sure you'd just see more corpses on the ground waiting for a battle rez than people who want to reset their progress. I almost feel like everyone wants to over engineer a solution to a problem which might not be too common. I certainly think the system can be improved but I don't think we should cut off our nose to spite our face.

I'm pretty sure we agree?

[Raestloz]

Each player can only maintain contribution on 1 FATE at any given time. And when you enter a new FATE, your old contribution are lost forever.

This is already gold. Don't need another one. The problem is that people is skipping on one FATE to munch on another, not that people are leaving. if you force them to stay with one FATE, they'll try to finish one as quickly as possible