Cosmic Exploration progression is poorly handled

[TakoyakiLala]

Well, that sucks. I was hoping to take my time and enjoy the event since I thought it was supposed to be a sort of a casual mixture between Ishgardian Restoration and Doma Restoration. The former giving us a community driven event that would last weeks/months progression wise, while the story itself only going at each individual player's pace.

Eh, oh well. Just one more thing the devs will have to learn to do better next time. If that ever happens.

At least, I hope I can take the time to eventually unlock my Metal Gear mech mount from it at least without something annoyingly timegate related blocking my goal progression, right? ...Right??? :v

Edit:

Y "I want this to have a strong feeling of "doing it together", to give that MMO feeling"
Y "Island Sanctuary was solo content, but this is meant to be done together, but you will still be able to enjoy is solo as well"
Y "During ishard restoration, it was more of a "real time thing" where only players wo were there for each step could visually see the development and the differences, but this time we also want people to be able to "look back" even if they only join the content at a later stage"

This is what Yoshi-P told about Cosmic exploration in PLL85 7.2 part 1...

*Bangs head on desk*

Okay, if this is true. I feel kinda less bad, but this still shows a serious flaw in the dev team's community teamwork based content that really needs to be addressed. Either way, thank you for the context quote, Ukina.

[Velthice]

In retrospect, it seems pretty foolish of me to have expected SE to deliver content that lasts more than a couple hours given their recent track record, but I'm disappointed all the same. Oh well, more time for the Oblivion remaster

[SalamanderIX]

What was the point of having all these progressions if they'd be done in 5 hours? Most people are never going to be able to participate now, seems like it was a massive waste of their time to include all these quests and instance stages.
Hopefully for their next exploration they get it right, this seems like there was some kind of miscalculation.

[Reno-Ryno]

We've been stuck with a looping NPC, who we have named Charles, on Brynhildr (Crystal) who seems to be blocking the mushroom quest. No events have happened in over two hours.

[Renaclock]

No server seems to be past phase 3 so I don't see the what ppl are complaining about?
What do you guys mean
First phases must be quick since they give basic fanctions.
Next phase is progressing very slowly so it should take a while.

[Asari5]

cant they scale it on each server individually to the population? sure it wouldnt be balanced perfectly on each server but that would surely be better than what we have now wouldnt it?

[Supersnow845]

I’m confused as to why people are still seeing this as a problem (and normally I’m a massive complainer)

The first two stages were minor changes at best just to get the teleporters running because of the lack of mounts and now it seems like a long grind to stage 4 and potentially beyond

Nobody is missing contributing to progression, you can go contribute to progression right now. The first phases specifically changed almost nothing specifically as they were just setting up groundwork

[Regis_Paran]

I’m confused as to why people are still seeing this as a problem (and normally I’m a massive complainer)

The first two stages were minor changes at best just to get the teleporters running because of the lack of mounts and now it seems like a long grind to stage 4 and potentially beyond

Nobody is missing contributing to progression, you can go contribute to progression right now. The first phases specifically changed almost nothing specifically as they were just setting up groundwork

From what I see, people want it be both Doma (for solo stage progress) and Ishgard (for community contribution) at the same time. Not sure how it would work, because it would mean (at current stage) teleports for some but not others?

[TKMXIV]

From what I see, people want it be both Doma (for solo stage progress) and Ishgard (for community contribution) at the same time. Not sure how it would work, because it would mean (at current stage) teleports for some but not others?

When the community contribution exp is full the stuff upgrades for everyone who is there at the time.
For players who come late be it work, health or new players to the game that finally reach it. They get a quest with an objective to do and finishing it gives them the upgrade on their end.

[Shezza]

Guys just use the "Set alarm." function!