Quote Originally Posted by bswpayton View Post
If you are a tank or healer even if some people dont give them, even if some like giving them to dps it is still a guide to whether or not you are preforming up to par. Because I can assure you if I mess up or cause a wipe 9 times out of 10 Im not gettin a commendation.

All I was asking was to not have filler in my instances , because it creates a fabricated illusion of how many instances Ive done where I could be judged on my gaming performance.
I'm pretty sure people have told you with factual reasons why that commendations in this game don't mean anything.

So you are just not listening to reason.

Commendations don't mean you are good at the game nor can they be used as a guide. That's just simple fact. The game itself is not the one giving the commendation. The commendations are coming from other players with a subjective view.

Some players commend simply for glamour/nice character look.
Some players commend simply for saying hello or chatting.
Some players commend for no real reason at all just to get the challenge log.
Some players commend on if they feel you did good (but this is subjective and unless you know this player has credentials to praise you then it means nothing)

So yeah sometimes you might get a commendation from someone who thinks you did good, but that doesn't mean you factually did good.

You would have to find someone with a lot of knowledge about the game and also a lot of knowledge about the class you are playing to get feedback on whether or not you are playing properly. Random PUGs in DF, unless you ask them, you don't know how much experience they have and being commended by someone with unknown credentials doesn't actually mean much.

Like if you were a medical student and you did a simulation operation as a test. Your friend (who is not studying medicine, is not a surgeon/doctor, and knows nothing of medical practices) and your PHD holding professor who has been a surgeon for 30 years is watching your performance.

After the test is over your friend cheers at you and tells you what a perfect job you did and that you didn't make any mistakes.
Your Professor on the other hand says he saw you make many critical mistakes.

Which one would you listen to?

I would think obviously the one with the credentials, your Professor.

In DF you don't know if any of them have credentials to tell you that you are doing good at the game or the job you are playing and like myself and others have stated some people give commendations for completely arbitrary reasons so any commendations you get doesn't mean you did good.

Some might commend you for skill, but how would you know when someone commended you for skill and not simply your glamour and if they have the knowledge about the game/job to actually be correct with their praise?