I guess it's time

[Velhart]

Offer rewards that aren't tomestones and exp, add in achievements for participating in them, give us a database of players in progress that have had dropped/kicked members and allow us to choose which one we want to join especially if there are FC members we want to help exclusively, and most importantly..."fun comes first". It shouldn't be more of a "let's get this over with quick" kind of feeling.

Achievements sure (even though Mentor roulette has one). Picking an "in progress" group would be heavily exploited and potentially leave groups without ever getting a new party member.

No matter what content you do, if you do it enough per day, "fun comes first" will always lead to "let's get this over with quick". There is no amount of fun in this world that will change that.

It's called do once a day until reset, how is that all the time? Can we stop generalizing stuff here please? Thanks.

You know exactly what I mean. Don't change my sentence around to poorly attempt to make it work in your favor. If you have thousands of players engaging in lv.50 roulette at least once a day, I do not see the problem. Working as intended and I don't believe developers are trying to influence players to tread back to previous dungeons beyond EXP, tomestones, and glamour.

[MagiusNecros]

Achievements sure (even though Mentor roulette has one). Picking an "in progress" group would be heavily exploited and potentially leave groups without ever getting a new party member.

No matter what content you do, if you do it enough per day, "fun comes first" will always lead to "let's get this over with quick". There is no amount of fun in this world that will change that.

Research Facility already has this problem. And I'd rather stick with people that know how to play the game at a competent level. Build a reputation. Help others. Inspire them to do better. The Mentor system does not do that.

However if you are so narrowminded that you feel no amount of fun can change the mentality of speedrunning content for meager rewards then further discussion is pointless. After all if it isn't fun then you are doing it wrong.

[Velhart]

Research Facility already has this problem. And I'd rather stick with people that know how to play the game at a competent level. Build a reputation. Help others. Inspire them to do better. The Mentor system does not do that.

However if you are so narrowminded that you feel no amount of fun can change the mentality of speedrunning content for meager rewards then further discussion is pointless. After all if it isn't fun then you are doing it wrong.

Then do that. Game isn't forcing you to do roulette with random people. Sorry, but MMORPG's welcome players of all skill levels, even terrible ones. I am not sure how you can magically make things so only competent players roam the lands.

If I am that narrow minded, then please enlighten me on how to make the roulette fun without it feeling like a chore a few months in. I would love to hear this magical solution you have that has been plaguing MMORPG's since it's conception.

[RobbieH]

You know exactly what I mean. Don't change my sentence around to poorly attempt to make it work in your favor. If you have thousands of players engaging in lv.50 roulette at least once a day, I do not see the problem.

Yes i know what you mean, and i tell you again, lvl50 dungeons are irrelevant, people might do them because FATEs are dead, but it's not something with low queue, like i said people do the roulette for daily exp and wait for reset, that's the people you see in the lvl50 dungeons, can be people doing old relic too, even new for tomes, but once they're done with relic it's dead content, therefor irrelevant.

there's absolutely no reason to do lvl50 dungeons or even 60 besides the roulette, so exciting. That's called dead content.

You can't look at how it is currently when it's relevant for tomes, when people re done with the relic the rate at which people do lvl50 dungeons will drop drastically.

Anyway player base has been declining since 2.1, people were hyped for 3.0 and there were lots of people, they saw it was the same content they left, it will keep happening until SE changes it, if they ever do.

This game doesn't even have 1m subs, most likely round 600-700k at most, and it will keep going down if things don't change.

Aquapolis died? that's news to me.

Yes it did, people gave up on it long ago, just because you and group does it doesn't mean it's alive.

One group of people or even a few doesn't represent the whole community.

[SendohJin]

Yes it did, people gave up on it long ago, just because you and group does it doesn't mean it's alive.

Just because you and your group gave up doing it doesn't mean it's dead

One group of people or even a few doesn't represent the whole community.

I see other groups every time I go out to do mine.

Yeah it did.
So many people rushed in aquapolis that the prices are dropping so much (moogle quest rewards didn't help too) it's almost worthless to go in again considering the luck factor on getting to the last rooms to get something worth (not even so much like the first days).

So it died because too many people are doing it?

[Azrael]

So it died because too many people are doing it?

It died because the main purpose of aquapolis is to let people make gil.
Since moogle give for free one of the most valuable pieces that drop there (fibers) and people farm that alot, you can see the fiber price dropped from 3m to less than 200k in less than 1 month.
Some other stuff that drop there is needed to make old 170 gear which nobody really uses anymore.
There is so much supply compared to the demand that the items that drop there are almost worthless now.
Only things that are really valuable are the V materias that drop from the last rooms, which is very hard to get to (and you need to try your luck against other people) and even their price dropped alot.
Might just sell the daily map on the market board and be done with it.

[SendohJin]

Since moogle give for free one of the most valuable pieces that drop there (fibers) and people farm that alot, you can see the fiber price dropped from 3m to less than 200k in less than 1 month.

Maybe it was just way overpriced like everything else when people don't know how to get it / don't have multiple paths to get it?

And of course the price will settle down when people hit max Moogle Rank, Moogle quests isn't free, it still takes like 15 minutes to do and you can't get more than 1.5 fibers from it per character per day.

Might just sell the daily map on the market board and be done with it.

What do you think people who buy the maps do with them? Because it's not you it doesn't exist? If it's actually dead people wouldn't buy your maps.