FFXIV Research

[Braven]

I also usually just commend the last person still left, since people often leave immediately before I even have the chance to even open the menu. Once they leave, you can no longer commend. The rewards are so useless, I could really care less about receiving a commendation. Like others I honestly have no idea of the race or gender of the avatar of others when in a dungeon. I don’t even look at the avatars closely, just the health bars next to the job icon and aggro indicators. To me, it is just “tank, healer, or DPS”.

Number of commendations are meaningless because different players run dungeons at different frequencies and some stick around for a while and others exit immediately which prevents them from being able to receive a commendation. Because you can change your gender with a potion that everyone gets, many avatars have been both genders (mine has been both male and female, and different races). Commendation totals don’t take that into consideration. People also switch “jobs” all the time and I think most people, who don’t commend Randomly, favors a certain job role. It is common for SCH/SMN jobs to have SCH do dungeons for shorter queues and SMN for solo quests, because the higher DPS helps to complete them quicker and both share the same base class and level together. As a result, just looking at job levels is worthless and misleading. There are also many solo ways to level. Generally tanks and healers get more commends than DPS, in my experience, but it is all pretty random.

I am sorry, but I hate studies that try to prove some kind of stereotype by selectively choosing the bits and pieces of data they want to focus on or ignore in order to try and validate some bias that will get them published.

The commendation system is simply a terrible way to gather any kind of useful phycological research data. It is too random and there are simply too many conflicting reasons why people give them and to whom. Using such is more likely to return a flawed or false conclusion than a true one. That kind of reckless “research” only serves to discredit legitiment research studies that use proper controls, by association, and it lowers the public’s trust in general of scientific research. How about you do a study on that instead.

Also, this is certainly the wrong forum board for this. This is area is for discussion of tank role jobs.

[Graiggy]

I have to put this out there. I mean i like the idea of doing these studies. however... in this game its so hard to tell a characters race let alone if its a female or male. mostly it comes down to if you actually did your job. mostly your tank or your healer is going to get the comm. i usually give to a dps that stood since i tank and my friend heals and im not allowed to commend him. you can use my data as well i have 80 some comm and im a male "human" highlander. im pretty well just started really doing the roulettes so thats why my stats are so low.

[Seku]

To reflect on what the others said, your numbers probably won't yield anything good due to all the random variables. IE: Has the player ever changed gender in game? If so how many comms did they obtained while female? How many while male? How long have they been playing for and how many instances have they done that has rewarded them with a commendation? --- A better way to approach this would be to gather a group of people and split them between males and females evenly and then further split them into their designated roles and have them run a certain number of dungeons.

But as others have said it's more based about how you play your job. I've found that communication, building rapport, and playing your job half way decently nets you commendations. That and the models in this game are kinda...weird looking. Think there was even a post a while back asking why females lacked curves to put it nicely.

[Delily]

In light parties, the comm by default goes to the healer, unless there's a new person and he doesn't mess up. In full parties, it goes to the other tank, healer, or whoever is still left when it ends for me to comm. The only time I'm even aware of a groupmate's race or gender is when he's dressed in a way that grabs my attention.

[Tint]

when i play tank then my co-tank has highest priority for my commendation. when there is no co-tank or the co-tank wasn't good then i will give it to a healer, except the healers were bad too^^ of course when someone actually impressed me, then he will get the commendation, regardless of role. like a bard who uses palisade on me or whatever ^^
also when i was spinning the mobs a lot and messing up the positionals for the meele, then i will give him the commendation as a compensation xD

in 24 mans i often give it to the only person person without weakness at the end >.>

oh and i will never give it to a person with a stupid name, like Cloud or Sephiroth...

i don't take gender into consideration, but sometimes i just give it to a Lalafell just because :O

and to answer the OPs question: i call 4655 commendations my own ^_____________^
- after more than 4 years and over 15k hours of playtime with countless dungeon runs...