Another "they quit" thread

[Kosmos992k]

If you have 1 successful group and have it on farm status you can cycle in the people who are having problems with it each week and take different people in your FC until you cleared it with everyone. The you go problem solved.

I agree with you, but sadly it doesn't always work. In my FC - which I lead - I suggested that the static groups that had cleared all the primals and were working towards the Coil could help others if they needed it. To be honest, the response that greeted me would have been more suitable if I'd simply hurled offensive insults at them instead of making a polite request. The cliques formed by the emphasis on learning via many retries with a static group are utterly antisocial and toxic to the health of a Free Company and the community in general. As it is, many smaller Free Companies are left with no viable groups to play with, unfortunately I believe that they may lose players and disband.

That's not happening with my company, I simply won't let it, and am stubborn enough to weather such a storm if it comes. However, not everyone is like that. The very heavy need to form static groups of 8 hurts Free Companies and Link Shells, they become fragmented. Turning to Duty Finder simply takes the people left out of the static groups and puts them with strangers, further distancing those players from their 'friends' in the statics. That too is pretty much a cancer to Free companies.

That said, I don't believe that the majority of players are leaving, though the player community is fragmenting. I would agree that we are losing some of the population of the 5% that have done everything and put turn 5 on farm, and if so, I honestly don't see it as a bad thing. I've never been treated in a more condescending manner than by players among that '5%'. If they got bored, it's their own fault for being so damned selfish and anti-social.