random Duty Finder groups - Square Enix attitude solution INC

[Bulwyf]

My problems with this and several have touched on it:

1. This utterly punishes people who usually group with friends. You will receive almost no votes if you routinely group with friends and no matter how good you are if some random players sees you have very few if any upvotes they will think you are a griefer and leave the instance.

2. This does not do anything to address the major issues of some players who intentionally screw up instances to get people killed or go AFK in an instance. There must be some kind of feature to /kick people out AND to invite someone into an instance.

3. There should be a downvote. The way to stop griefers is to make public how someone votes. If all a griefer does is downvote others on purpose it would show and other players would be warned to avoid this player.

[jbizzi]

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This is why you have to be negatively impacted somehow by being a jerk. This whole "everyone gets a participation award" world that we live in, does not work. If you act like a jerk you will get penalized NEGATIVELY and those that act in accordance or politely will be affected POSITIVELY. Those that wish to group with only friends, will not be affected at all, their status will remain neutral while erring on the positive side until jerkiness proves otherwise.

Anyone else hungry for some jerky right now?

[Zakalwe]

This is not a bad idea, depending on how it is implemented. A little benefit for those who play well -- and well with others -- would be a nice thing.

However, this of course will do nothing do deal with the problems of bad behaviour as there will be no negative repercussions for trolling, harassment, and juvenile actions in a DF group. The fundamental problem with DF remains: as long as it is not one-world only, where actions will have consequences and reputations will get made, it will continue to be something that keeps enabling the worst elements of the larger FFXIV community.