Introduction of a negative commendation button

[Deceptus]

Ya, that totally wouldn't be abused at all.

People would see a mentor icon and instantly negative comm just out of spite regardless of performance.

[NanaWiloh]

People would see a mentor icon and instantly negative comm just out of spite regardless of performance.

I could see groups being formed simply to neg. commendation bomb every mentor they encounter..

[Skivvy]

The community is far too petty for this to work.

[Avoidy]

On the flip side, I wish they'd let us commend more than one person in a group.

[Doozer]

On the flip side, I wish they'd let us commend more than one person in a group.

I'd also like the ability to commend someone who's left already. So many people leave instantly and I just have to say "oh well guess you can't complain about not being a mentor yet".

[Tiramu]

Lol, what could possibly go wrong with that? Such a system would need to be for everyone and even the obvious griefing aside, you'd have people neg'ing:



- People in their first time in content,
- People learning new jobs,
- People mad that blinds havent read a guide (as a regular blind progger in PF this will happen a lot)
- People unable to carry others through hard content
- People who arent parsing high enough for someones liking


Sometimes I think this board wants XIV to become a toxic hellhole.

[hydralus]

Commends mean nothing anyway so I support the idea just to annoy the folks who take them seriously.

[Bunnycake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhckuhUxcgA

[Mika_Zahard]

Perhaps the best way to sort out clueless mentors farming mentor roulette not to help but to get a mount.

Introduce a system where you have to maintain a commendation level over a certain period.

Let's say 70% commendation rate.

A player can then use a negative commendation in place of a standard commendation, knocking down the commendation rate percentage.

The mentor will then lose access to mentor roulette until they are able to bring their commendation level percentage up again.

I know some will say this system can easily be trolled, and perhaps it can. However, I can't imagine enough people would use the system in a negative way to truly impact the stats.

I suppose it could also be introduced outside of mentorship too, but I don't really see the point. Those commendations won't mean a thing and a negative commendation wouldn't mean a thing.

The system may have to be tinkered because I assume DPS tend to get fewer commendations overall. I tend to always commend the DPS, especially if they are new and listened to mechanics, but I know most others default to the tank or the healer. Perhaps mostly the healer as I average 2 commendations a dungeon as of late. Never played as a tank.

We dont have "dislikes" in youtube and other places for a (((reason))). Why do you think they'd implement something like that?

[Zebraoracle]

I'm totally looking forward to the players that see negative comms as some weird trophy and act as trollish/douchey as possible to farm them! /s