Disruptive Frontline Gameplay

[Chasingstars]

Don't recall ever being in double digits before. Complete capitulation. I guess people figure when a dominant commander is running a session and is not on their team, they're going to lose 9/10 times anyway, so might as well hasten the process? Kudos to our shot-caller continuing to make calls at the 7-min mark when we were still on 0 lol.

Not always that, some teams one can get are about the equivalent to a chicken with its head cut off. Slow on the uptake, prone to lingering and fighting enemy players even though they should be moving away.

Though there is also a commonly seen behavior that does involve hastening the process among 3rd place players. That of pinching the 2nd place team even though the 1st place is in the lead, where the 1st place team gets blue largely goes uncontested as the 2nd place team is too busy being dragged in the mud by 3rd. A "glad they didn't win" mentality. Whatever causes this grudge to form is usually something that is just part-n-parcel to frontlines, like getting KO'd or their node taken by force.

[Mawlzy]

Thanks to the success (!?) of the weekly 4pm Pacific Aether FL Q-synching event, apparently this will now be daily, 5pm-7pm. The good news: since it won't be single-job shenanigans, it won't be disruptive on that score. Bad news: most of these people queue as light parties, so solo-player contributions on a field laden with premades will be even less relevant than usual.

You can meet most of the participants at the Adamantoise Wolves' Den where they tend to gather as they prepare to treat a public game mode as their private playground. I won't be attending since, as mentioned before, there's a good chance I'll get vote-kicked, but I'd be interested in hearing how it goes.

[Mawlzy]

What's the lowest losing team score y'all have seen on Onsal? Set a personal record today. 48.

On a similar topic, I just saw posted on Discord a multi-premade team winning by 1600/101/83 on Shatter today. The gain loss from KOs was +1200/-96. Lead DRK sported a 13/0/105.

These people seem determined to kill the mode.

[Mawlzy]

Another completely miserable evening on FL. I get off work at 5. Have to wait two bloody hours because the pink morons are doing a 2 hour Q-synch. Finally queue in, get dumped on Olivia's team. Leave immediately and take the penalty. Wait 90 minutes in the hope she'll leave. Come back. Stuck on her team AGAIN. Then endure a completely pointless match where 2nd got 144 and 3rd didn't make it out of double digits.

I'm actually looking forward to a massive influx of Mogtomers since at least they'll lower the probability I get stuck in these abysmal matches.

SQEX: a "blacklist" should mean I don't get stuck on the same team as someone I have blacklisted, it's not rocket science. I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY WITH THEM!!!

[OliviaLugria]

Lmk if you put that bounty up
I'm sure I have friends who'd love to collect on it. XD

[Mawlzy]

Lmk if you put that bounty up
I'm sure I have friends who'd love to collect on it. XD

It might make the matches more interesting, but I'm genuinely concerned it could be regarded by SE as griefing. Like even CCP/EVE took a dim view of bounties. I was thinking like 1 million gil per the number of times you get KOd, only payable if you also lose the match.

Fishing, Olivia. I went fishing.

[Aidorouge]

Not always that, some teams one can get are about the equivalent to a chicken with its head cut off. Slow on the uptake, prone to lingering and fighting enemy players even though they should be moving away.

Though there is also a commonly seen behavior that does involve hastening the process among 3rd place players. That of pinching the 2nd place team even though the 1st place is in the lead, where the 1st place team gets blue largely goes uncontested as the 2nd place team is too busy being dragged in the mud by 3rd. A "glad they didn't win" mentality. Whatever causes this grudge to form is usually something that is just part-n-parcel to frontlines, like getting KO'd or their node taken by force.

Well it often happens that 3rd place gets bullied by 2nd place (trying to build BH to stop 1st instead of just... going after 1st before they get too strong), so in retaliation 3rd place decides "well if they want to fight for 2nd place, we'll fight for 2nd". So 3rd goes after the 2nd team they *might* stand a chance against/caused them endless grief the whole match, instead of the team that's already won 1st place/never bothered them because they were dealing with 2nd only.

And it's hard to deny the satisfaction of watching a 2nd place team that insists on coming after your 3rd place team suddenly sink into 3rd themselves last minute because 1st noticed that 2nd was too busy being a bully to notice 1st's incoming pinch, or that 2nd was dumb enough to think after spending 5+ minutes in 3rd's spawn point farming them, that 3rd *wasn't* going to be dogging them for the reminder of the match in revenge.

Only way it's ever going to stop is if Frontlines becomes 2 teams only, but that's not likely to happen, and simply creating a separate mode will just have it left abandoned outside of Mogtome events.

[Gaiinahat]

They should remove objectives. Just make FL an all out brawl to the death. Also, they need to cut the timer to 10 mins. 20 mins in it's current state is just dragging out the frustration. I'm tired of PvPing by myself while my "team" abandons me to go hit the objectives mid battle.

[Mawlzy]

PSA: Friday May 31st 6pm Pacific Aether FL will be unplayable thanks to the Princesses imposing themselves on the playerbase and Q-synching a PLD "event." The GBR event was a complete nightmare with games timing out for obvious reasons. This figures to be even worse.

[Aishaa]

I am not one to put my two cents in, or even bother with sharing my opinion but, this is a special case. Everything that you suggest, is absolutely horrendous. And if you put 0.1% of your complaining into actually learning the mode and jobs you'd not have any reason to come to the forums and complain as much as you do. Good thing developers do not listen to people like you who have no idea what they are talking about, if so the state of PvP would undoubtedly be unplayable. Also, refrain from blaming others and worry about your own skill and contributions.