The question for Monday: Why do you need your clear asap?

[Archaell]

Why are people so much obsessed with getting their clears as soon as possible?

I finally got some time to work on the Nidhogg Ex and basically spent whole weekend doing training parties on Ragnarok. Everything was great, got many times to the fang phase with fresh groups, till… till I tried to make a party for the adds training specifically. There isn’t much to train there if people can live till that point, but practice is always good. Suddenly problems started. People were failing as much as fresh training groups during the start of the fight if not even more, people were getting more irritated and leaving before the timer finished. The attitude changed a lot while there being only a tiny little difference in the “progression”. Why?

Well I know why. Because suddenly everyone was expected to reach the point of training without messing up too much, and people of course were doing a lot of mistakes – making it obvious they either did not practice enough or even tried the fight before. Why?

Why do people join parties beyond their real experience?

“I got to the phase 5 once, so clearly I mastered all the previous phases!”

Really? I saw this attitude several times. People getting to the fang phase once and suddenly being too good for training the previous parts.

“Fang phase training. Two wipes before that = disband!”

And then this person died in the first phase when they joined our add group. Well at least they realised that some more training was needed I guess. ^^

This attitude is baffling. Why can’t people learn a part of the fight before moving up, instead of pushing it as much as possible to move up?

It just leads to pointless frustration and disbands.

Someone starts training party for towers etc., and then the group makes the same (sometimes even less) progression as I am doing with new groups. How? I am teaching the fight to completely new people yet my groups reach the same point eventually as their parties before disbanding. Of course it takes more time, coz they disband after a wipe or two, but still…

Wouldn’t it be much better if everyone could join the party for the certain phase and actually get there to practice it because all the party members practiced enough the previous ones?

It would lead to much better experience and eventually faster progression for everyone in my opinion.


Let’s end this opening post with last question(s):

What do you think would motivate people to join the “correct groups” for them?

The community? Some adjustments to PF? New features? Etc. etc.

All comments are welcome.