Custom CC Games are way better than Ranked

[Mawlzy]

Sorry, overflow and I've forgotten the trick for avoiding the character limit...


I did find the LFG channel useful since it allowed me to avoid certain premades, and as mentioned above I met some people with whom I had productive discussions about FL jobs and strategy via DM. Ultimately I left because of the hostility and nastiness directed at the player base as a whole from a noisy subset of your members. I don't know if the stats from my server are representative, but there the vast majority of our members lurk. I suspect on Revival you have a significant population of such lurkers who are the "FL randos" that are constantly abused by some regular posters. You'll understand why I chuckled darkly when it was mentioned earlier in this thread that PvP Discord has cleaned its bed. That doesn't conform to my experience, even on a server that I genuinely respect. Others are far worse.

Anyway, I don't know if that is helpful at all, and I apologize to the OP for the derail, but hopefully you can take these observations as constructive, and not just assume it's Mawlzy going off again.

[gidsonBrand]

My problem with communities is that I never know which one is sanitized and which one isn't.

The two I linked at the start of this thread, Rising Stars and Temari's, are both pretty chill -- so if you're interested in what they have to offer, I can guarantee they'll be sanitized.
Same with another group, PvPrincesses. The folks that come out to the queue syncs are just there to play the game in coordinated groups and would be more than happy to teach someone some good Frontlines cadence.

Revival's had some moderation issues in the past, due to it's size and the mods being an all-volunteer force, but it's much better now.
PvPrimal is also fine. Mostly a hub for organizing games to play, playing them, and going home.
There's one for OCE and EU too, but I don't hang around there often enough to know if they're clean. Aussies can be brutal lol

[Mawlzy]

The two I linked at the start of this thread, Rising Stars and Temari's, are both pretty chill -- so if you're interested in what they have to offer, I can guarantee they'll be sanitized.
Same with another group, PvPrincesses. The folks that come out to the queue syncs are just there to play the game in coordinated groups and would be more than happy to teach someone some good Frontlines cadence.

Revival's had some moderation issues in the past, due to it's size and the mods being an all-volunteer force, but it's much better now.
PvPrimal is also fine. Mostly a hub for organizing games to play, playing them, and going home.
There's one for OCE and EU too, but I don't hang around there often enough to know if they're clean. Aussies can be brutal lol

The loyalty you show your friends is admirable.

[VictorSpoils]

The two I linked at the start of this thread, Rising Stars and Temari's, are both pretty chill -- so if you're interested in what they have to offer, I can guarantee they'll be sanitized.
Same with another group, PvPrincesses. The folks that come out to the queue syncs are just there to play the game in coordinated groups and would be more than happy to teach someone some good Frontlines cadence.

Revival's had some moderation issues in the past, due to it's size and the mods being an all-volunteer force, but it's much better now.
PvPrimal is also fine. Mostly a hub for organizing games to play, playing them, and going home.
There's one for OCE and EU too, but I don't hang around there often enough to know if they're clean. Aussies can be brutal lol

Last I checked, PvPrimal was worthless for farming CC/Frontline wins since there were basically no groups being formed.

Certainly wouldn't mind a golden ticket to whatever private Discord is running all these queue syncs seemingly all hours of the day, since the matchmaking in both modes has made it impossible to win for ages. Pity if you need those colossal win achievements.

[gidsonBrand]

Last I checked, PvPrimal was worthless for farming CC/Frontline wins since there were basically no groups being formed.

Ehhh they run queue syncs every Friday & have a ping for people who want to group up to play Frontline.

They're not private but they're not guaranteeing any wins. Feel free to join the syncs tho:
https://discord.gg/pvprimal

[Valence]

The two I linked at the start of this thread, Rising Stars and Temari's, are both pretty chill -- so if you're interested in what they have to offer, I can guarantee they'll be sanitized.
Same with another group, PvPrincesses.

That sounds good. Perhaps when ranked is less active on my end I might take a peek, especially considering I just threw the towel with pve in XIV.
What is the main difference between all those servers? Do they really need to be all distinct instead of more centralized?

[Garuketo]

Last I checked, PvPrimal was worthless for farming CC/Frontline wins since there were basically no groups being formed.

What in the wintrade shenanigans is CC win farming...

[gidsonBrand]

omg gary kettle
head of pvprimal and leader of the discord mafia hegemony

can u sign my portrait

[gidsonBrand]

What is the main difference between all those servers? Do they really need to be all distinct instead of more centralized?

Well, most of these communities started with one person having an idea for an event and made their own server, rather than getting approval/permission from one of the larger ones. Over time it grew to be a staple of the community and the rest is history.

Which is how I started mine. I wanted to see more Crystalline Conflict tournaments so I made a discord server that I could customize to better feed information to team leads/friends. Sure I could have latched onto PvPrimal or Revival or some other large server but personally, I like doing my own thing.

[Calmlamity]

My problem with communities is that I never know which one is sanitized and which one isn't. Revival for instance tries to be welcoming which I appreciate, while fostering lightly moderated channels (opt-in) for DC centric post game malding and toxicity. Before this it was just public DC specific channels where moderation was supposed to happened, but never did. This sends very mixed signals to me.

It's a change of signals. If you've been around Revival for a bit, you know that ranked conversation used to dominate the DC channels, and it made for a pretty uncomfortable environment for the people who were trying to do anything else. It was also uncomfortable even for some of the people who were doing ranked, heard from multiple consistent t-100s, who just didn't want to deal with criticism against their will if they made a mistake.

So the opt-in section is meant to funnel that ranked PvP intensity, give them a place to exist within the server, while keeping the rest of it cozy to the people who don't care to be a part of it. The sweaties have their home, and it unlocks the rest of the server for the frontliners, and the rival wingers, and the duelers, and the people looking for mentoring, and the people who wanna share cat memes, who don't want that bleeding into their preferred spaces. It's not that the sweaties have their opt-in section and the entire rest of the server. They have that one space, and the rest of the server is cleaner for it. And while we're still getting comfy with how to moderate it, it is still moderated.
There's an expectation of personal respect that everyone who opted in agreed to, and we've pushed back against people who have gone too far.

There are a lot of volunteers who put in a ton of time and effort to make Revival a cozy place, and I absolutely mean this when I say that, if there's something you'd like to see different, don't hesitate to let us know. Open a ticket or put it in the suggestions channel. And if you don't want a the entire admin and mod team to see who you are but you have something on your mind? Feel free to DM me. They're always open, and I try my best to be a teddy bear. I've put years of effort into trying to make Revival a better place, and the majority of the improvements we've made have come from people who don't have any staff roles.