Ban premades from frontline, fix all issues

[Mawlzy]

I am not a mod/staff, but it still has a good dose of memes and general chat - it's a bit of a community, but if there is a genuine question - people usually help.

Having modded a smaller Discord (~6k members) I found the best way to keep people on topic was to have a general-chat channel and delete the fluff from the actual content channels.

The issue is that the extant "community" tends to appear closed to new server members when key channels are used for in-jokes and off-topic conversations.

[WutWut]

Have you cleaned up that channel yet? Last time I was there it was used for general chat, memes, glam shots, and being rude to players not in the clique.

It seems fine when I go in there, no being rude to players. The general chat and memes still exist, but I wouldn't say it floods the channel. There's plenty of talk about maps, scoreboards, strategy with different jobs, and assisting players when they have questions that goes on as well. I could not say if the signal-to-noise ratio meets your standards, that probably varies from person to person; it's not a hyper-focused channel strictly cultivated to be about its topic, like you might see with the AskHistorians subreddit, and probably never will be.

[Mawlzy]

It seems fine when I go in there, no being rude to players. The general chat and memes still exist, but I wouldn't say it floods the channel. There's plenty of talk about maps, scoreboards, strategy with different jobs, and assisting players when they have questions that goes on as well. I could not say if the signal-to-noise ratio meets your standards, that probably varies from person to person; it's not a hyper-focused channel strictly cultivated to be about its topic, like you might see with the AskHistorians subreddit, and probably never will be.

It's possible the signal may have picked up a bit with all the recent changes. I haven't been there for several months, when to me it was borderline useless, hence I left.

[Mawlzy]

Just had a really strange match on Onsal that illustrates many of the current problems with FL.

The match went to time. My team (that included Brian R.) won on around 1320 points.

One of the enemy teams featured a 4-BRD padder premade I'd seen before who decided to play mid for the entire match, racking up gaudy numbers (14/0/95 being the highest).

Had they given any attention to satellite nodes they would have crushed us since we were basically freestyling, and had several non-participants, including one who managed a whopping 3.2k damage (yes, I mean 3200) and a 0/10/0 K/D/A.

[Eastwall]

Idk If banning premade solves any problem. If l see a dk putting a marker on himself and spamming comms, l would switch to whm. Very easy to follow up with the salted Earth and l get to max battle high in no time. I say just suck it up, or learn to dreamwalk, So You get the roulette bonus and get out of there before you know it.

[OliviaLugria]

Have you cleaned up that channel yet? Last time I was there it was used for general chat, memes, glam shots, and being rude to players not in the clique.

I keep my own pretty clean, but we’re also basically ded.

Revival is big, but if I call the mods or submit a ticket they’re usually pretty quick

[Mawlzy]

I keep my own pretty clean, but we’re also basically ded.

Revival is big, but if I call the mods or submit a ticket they’re usually pretty quick

Can't imagine wading back into it. I get irritable in low signal-to-noise environments. No doubt the LFG channel is useful for those who prefer that playstyle.

[Chiyeko]

Kind of hope they will one day put in a solo queue like they do for crystal conflict, and don't think the queue time is bad since duty finder has a large pool to find people from each server, well except dead at night, and group or premade wouldn't have a bad queue timer unless like again dead of night on NA side for competitive plays.

[Jebatus]

What a stupid request

[jesseleewelch]

Just had a really strange match on Onsal that illustrates many of the current problems with FL.

The match went to time. My team (that included Brian R.) won on around 1320 points.

One of the enemy teams featured a 4-BRD padder premade I'd seen before who decided to play mid for the entire match, racking up gaudy numbers (14/0/95 being the highest).

Had they given any attention to satellite nodes they would have crushed us since we were basically freestyling, and had several non-participants, including one who managed a whopping 3.2k damage (yes, I mean 3200) and a 0/10/0 K/D/A.

That's just further proof that playing to pad and playing to win are two different things. Playing to win means maintaining awareness of new nodes, incoming punches, and which team is in lead at all times.