Let's make this viral- Improving our community

[Jacost]

I think this holds an element of truth. Duty Finder matching has it's costs to faster queue times, especially in CT.

It's not so much "plus anonymity" so much as "minus consequences". People act like dicks when they think they will get away with it. Thus, I ask you all to take the time to file harassment reports any time you see toxic behaviour taking place, even if it's not happening to you personally. We need to ensure that there are consequences to poisoning the community before anyone will stop doing it.

Y'know, in addition to giving out free /hugs when that becomes a thing.

[Roll]

I like the positive stories on that link. Giving new players gil is an awesome and nice thing to do. I'm gonna start doing that.

[Heavy01Mk2]

I like the positive stories on that link. Giving new players gil is an awesome and nice thing to do. I'm gonna start doing that.

how new we talking bout here chief? Im fairly new. Money plz.

[Altijacek]

I know it's just a video game but IMO it's more important than that. I'm a firm believer in "all work and no play makes X person a dull person." On top of that, I got my girlfriend into this game and she fell in love with the lore and cute minions and the idea of participating in a story. Since we're in a long distance relationship, this is how we pass our time together. Ultimately, this is where people come to relax. And there are a lot of playing together, so why not just be nice to each other? This is our virtual home, our hang out spot. We deserve to treat each other like family I help anyone at any time just because. Usually it ends up benefitting me too, so there's usually something in it for you even if you think there's not.

[Leira_Raine]

I try to offer my help randomly on Hyperion and always have. I don't do it as often anymore as in 1.0 (the point friends were angry with me because I just never spent any time with them...), but whenever I see someone do something nice, it really puts me in the mood to continue to contribute. I know this was small, but one of the memories that stuck out in my mind for ARR was recent, when I was hunting golems for my book. A PLD was also taking some down and, I first thought I wasn't going to have a chance at some of them making my killing time a bit longer. However, to my surprise, that person was halfway through the golem and turned right around to avoid autoattacking which stupefied me at first but I took the chance. Before I could really give my thanks the person ran off, but I was grateful for that. Ever since, whenever I see someone nearby that looks to need the same mobs as me, I start it off to get my credit and turn around so the person hunting near me would also get credit.

[Jacost]

I posted this thread to the Lodestone to try and get some attention brought to it.

Yeah, the community in this game can get me down sometimes. I try to be patient and helpful where I can.

[Morsmordie]

I certainly feel like there is a lot more elitism and name calling in the game now then back when it re-launched in September. People seem to have forgotten what it was like learning the game from scratch and not knowing the fights when they originally started playing.

I would certainly not call our community as bad as the LoL one (oh trust me... there are a lot more bad eggs over there...) but the toxicity in the community is starting to show up more often. That being said, I don't think a thread on the forums will change everyone but if it manages to change just one person then it's done it's job! We should all strive to be nicer and friendlier to new players and patience will pay off in the long run.

[Gormogon]

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Yeah I see some of the negative people still hanging around over some people that aren't playing anymore that used to be outgoing. Sadly they all left because they didn't want to repeat the grind and having to deal with end-game content revolving around coil and grinding to get gear to try and ease up coil nothing to do with the community they were pretty secluded as it was.

I ran CT today as a BRD. All in all, it wasn't the best and eventually a vote dismissed was passed. That left a bitter taste in my mouth, I then went in as a SCH again later on. We were team C and I didn't want a repeat of the same thing so, I started shouting things in the party chat such as "GO GO TEAM C! SUPER TEAM!" That got the whole team talking, and, everyone in my alliance was pretty hyped. This carried on throughout the run, yes we wiped a few times, but of course "WE'VE GOT THIS!" I shouted and we all got right back into the spirit of things! By the end of the run we were all having fun and joking.

Sorry, I know this isn't a "share your good deed" thread, but, I suppose it's an example that the community isn't going to one day make itself better, like the OP said; "I'll be putting a strong effort into creating a more inviting community."

We've got to be the ones to make it change, one little cheer at a time.

GO GO XIV COMMUNITY!

Surely 1 way to liven up the party.

[Altijacek]

One cool thing I did with two friends was queue for guildhests to do our challenge log, which is 10 times. We went tank, healer, DPS. Whoever we got, we'd tell them it was their lucky day, for they were getting 3 commendations. All 10 of them reacted happily. One was so new, he asked what commendations were. He was shocked that we were so nice to him, and I get the feeling he's gonna stick around and share that kindness.