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Up until now I have taken part in Sky and Dynamis. Having a job with hours that change weekly I often miss at least one or two events a week. We used the normal point system, you get points for when you show and you spend those points to get items you want, those with more points get priority. This to me is fair and I understood that with most items I would wait a long time to get what I wanted because I can't attend as much. For example I've been doing Dynamis for 2 years+ and I'm finally 3rd in line for Duelist's Chapeau and with sky I've been doing it for a year and a half and I'm now 3rd in line for Haidate too.
Now, the majority of the people in both event LS's are the same people, they are also the same who do Limbus, Einherjar etc.(Not HNM) The officers and leaders are mainly the same too. So they came up with a cunning plan: to merge the linkshells into one giant linkshell and schedule it accordingly.
This is where it starts to get to me.
Since they're merging the linkshells, they're reverting all points to 0. I can live with this, it's an even playing field after all.
Annoyingly, not having sea access yet I will never be able to compete point-wise with those who have access to all the events but I can live with this, I'm working through CoP and so I'll catch up in no time. Hell, let's look at it in a positive light, those who don't have access to those events will have more of an incentive to get the missions done.
Then they bring up, "Committed Members". Members who attend ALL the time will get a "Commited" status, they immediately take priority over those who don't have complete attendance. Ok, that hit a nerve. So basically, if a comitted member has less points than a non-comitted member because let's say they've spent them all on something, they'd still get to lot before the non-comitted member. I will permanently be at the bottom of the lotting list along with everyone else who has job or a RL that prevents them from attending all the events.
So, they argue, my points would be lower anyway due to less attendance than others so this whole commitment thing shouldn't matter. Sure I don't care waiting 2 years to get 3rd in line for something but thinking I could go forever without getting anywhere is annoying, especially seeing as we have new members every week pretty much, who immediately get "Comitted Status" and not to mention during the time it takes me to crawl closer to getting the item I want all the other "Comitted" members may decide to then level a job which needs that same item I want and will get it first. So I'm facing that I'll pretty much always be at the bottom of the pile.
They decided that the "Commited" status will either be a percentage of your attendance from either the last month, the last 3 months or the last year. I have no hope of attending all events in a week, so I can forget about even aiming for a month if they decide on that one.
Has anyone ever had this "Committed" Status in anything OTHER than a HNMLS, which this isn't and what do you guys think about it? I'm thinking I'd have a better chance of getting what I want now if I just join another LS and starting again from scratch with a LS which has the normal point system.
I asked them, if our current lotting/point system isn't broken, why fix it? I'm still waiting for my reply.
Now, the majority of the people in both event LS's are the same people, they are also the same who do Limbus, Einherjar etc.(Not HNM) The officers and leaders are mainly the same too. So they came up with a cunning plan: to merge the linkshells into one giant linkshell and schedule it accordingly.
This is where it starts to get to me.
Since they're merging the linkshells, they're reverting all points to 0. I can live with this, it's an even playing field after all.
Annoyingly, not having sea access yet I will never be able to compete point-wise with those who have access to all the events but I can live with this, I'm working through CoP and so I'll catch up in no time. Hell, let's look at it in a positive light, those who don't have access to those events will have more of an incentive to get the missions done.
Then they bring up, "Committed Members". Members who attend ALL the time will get a "Commited" status, they immediately take priority over those who don't have complete attendance. Ok, that hit a nerve. So basically, if a comitted member has less points than a non-comitted member because let's say they've spent them all on something, they'd still get to lot before the non-comitted member. I will permanently be at the bottom of the lotting list along with everyone else who has job or a RL that prevents them from attending all the events.
So, they argue, my points would be lower anyway due to less attendance than others so this whole commitment thing shouldn't matter. Sure I don't care waiting 2 years to get 3rd in line for something but thinking I could go forever without getting anywhere is annoying, especially seeing as we have new members every week pretty much, who immediately get "Comitted Status" and not to mention during the time it takes me to crawl closer to getting the item I want all the other "Comitted" members may decide to then level a job which needs that same item I want and will get it first. So I'm facing that I'll pretty much always be at the bottom of the pile.
They decided that the "Commited" status will either be a percentage of your attendance from either the last month, the last 3 months or the last year. I have no hope of attending all events in a week, so I can forget about even aiming for a month if they decide on that one.
Has anyone ever had this "Committed" Status in anything OTHER than a HNMLS, which this isn't and what do you guys think about it? I'm thinking I'd have a better chance of getting what I want now if I just join another LS and starting again from scratch with a LS which has the normal point system.
I asked them, if our current lotting/point system isn't broken, why fix it? I'm still waiting for my reply.
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