Should commendations be revised?

[TheGrimace]

Let me be able to filter commends specifically, rather than all System messages. I have enough commends and I don't want to focus on the game telling me if I'm being commended or not. Sometimes anxiety prevents bold actions and being able to filter commends would be appreciated.

[MitsukiKimura]

In all honesty this will weed out the ones who played the game for a long period of time than those who just spammed Ifrit every 3 seconds with a capped character. Been playing almost 3 years and I have around 2500 Commendations. You'd be surprised how quick you can earn them just by doing content, helping out. I would have lots more but been busy crafting lately.

[Omymy]

Do your work and you will have it.

Be a toxic as****** and you will have to cry about it in the forums.

[Espritduo]

As a full-time DPS who is continually frustrated by the lack of commends dps receive, there are a few things they need to change about the way commendations are handed out to make it more fair and consistent.

1. Randomize the order of players on the commendation list. Right now it always goes Tanks>Healers>DPS, which is part of the (but not the only) reason people just blindly commend the tanks no matter what. It's like the game is telling you "commend the tank first, healer if you're the tank, and just say eff u to the dps who poured his heart out for you." Too many people just don't care and select the first name on the list and split.

2. Allow people to commend those who have already left at the end of a duty, as has been mentioned a bunch already. Too many people are in such a ridiculous hurry to leave it really gets annoying when you WANT to commend a great player but all that's left are the terrible ones who are still hanging around like a bad odor.

3. Require people to make a choice at the end of a dungeon. WAY WAY too many people leave without giving a commendation for no other reason than they want to save the literally 2 seconds it takes to throw one out. I can't think of anything more selfish than a person who thinks 2 seconds of their time is more important than giving the tiniest of consideration to the other 3-7 people in their group. Instead of making the commendation list a little box that pops up in the corner you have to manually switch to and open, make it a box that automatically pops up upon completion and must be closed out to leave. You cannot leave the duty until you select a player from the list or actually select the choice to not commend anyone. This way you can still choose to not commend anyone but you have to make that choice, instead of rushing out the door to "save time".

[Rasikko]

I'm guilty of number 3 sometimes, but I don't think about it selfishly. I figure if I'm a half room away from it, that's plenty time to give me one and this includes the 0.5 seconds it takes to click yes to leave.

What we need is to be able to comm more than 1. Too many times I've wanted to give all 3 one, and I get hung up on who to give that single one out to.

[Espritduo]

I agree that being able to commend more than one person would be nice, but I feel that is very close to making the whole system pointless. When you're commending half the group, why even have a player-based commendation system at all? Just have the system give it out for participation (note: I don't endorse this idea at all). A way to apply a multiple-commend system might be to have the usual commend you give out at the end of every duty, and have a daily/weekly alotment of bonus commends you can choose to use on extra players beyond the usual one per run.

[Rasikko]

Could probably put a limit on how often you could do that. I donno, it just sucks knowing someone did well or stood out in some other way, and they leave with nothing.

[RokkuEkkusu]

2 changes I'd like:

1. Remove the challenge log to give commendation.
2. If possible, allow commendation to be given to people who have left the duty as long as they left the duty after it is done.

I don't think a separate commendation system is needed because, at its core, a mentor is there to help, which can be done simply by queueing for a duty and helping to get a clear run. That means anyone who queues and stays for a duty is doing their part already. Beyond that, whatever reason people have to commend is their own.

As for commending multiple people, it sounds nice, but since people's reason to commend is arbitrary, having to commend only one at least would make them have to choose "the best" (according to their preference) among potential recipients.

I'd say the challenge log to give commendations should stay. It at least gives people some sort of incentive to commend their fellow party members. Can't go wrong with free XP and gil after all.

[Iscah]

Removing commendations from guildhests would be an excellent start. It seems bizarre that they can carry the same weight as a high-level dungeon.

Maybe we'll get something other than level 10 guildhests in the roulette for a change.

[Halivel]

The commendation system as it is isn't bad, there is barely anything what you can really do to change it. It will nice to allow to give commendation to somebody who already left the duty, though. Sometimes I want to commend a member but they leave like in very 1st second after kill.

As for Mentorship system, in terms of commendations I think it should have separate system connected with Novice Network, where Sprout (and only Sprout) player can commend a Mentor they liked. The more likes Mentor has, the higher their grade. For what you can use grades and how to show that Mentor is high ranked is another story but at least it will somehow show that this Mentor is probably will help you since his grade is high. But this goes only to chat helps. The idea with separate commendations for Mentors in duty is good, too.