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Dungeon Finder Needed Badly


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Touchbass
01.29.2012 , 12:33 PM | #241
Quote: Originally Posted by FerrusPA View Post
There isn't much left to say about this. We need something that's better than the system we have now at the very least. The game is easy enough pre-50 so that you never really need a group but once you want to do endgame stuff it gets difficult to even find a normal FP group.

Although I suspect this might also be due to people starting 53467236 alts instead of leveling to 50.
I think this is one of the causes, cause honestly this game has very little 'vaccum factor' to pull me in. I'm only level 33, i have no desire to be lvl 50 cause there isn't really anything to do from what I've heard.

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Neiloch
01.29.2012 , 12:35 PM | #242
Quote: Originally Posted by Touchbass View Post
I guess that means nobody likes being a guild as much as you think, shocking eh? When I was raiding back in the day I noticed tons of players in many guilds only log in for raid nights. If your guilds aren't strong enough to withstand the X-LFD and LFR then I guess it's time for those specific guilds to go.
Exactly this. If those people TRULY wanted to be in a guild, they would have stuck around. Being in a guild was the best option available to them, but not the ideal option.

This means by making guilds needed you are forcing people to be in certain guilds to progress who don't want to be in those guilds, and just want to progress. Do you really want people in your guild 'pretending' to give a crap just so they can get progression?

If people are leaving guilds because of LFD its not because they think LFD is a worse option.

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MalignX
01.29.2012 , 12:35 PM | #243
Quote: Originally Posted by Touchbass View Post
I think this is one of the causes, cause honestly this game has very little 'vaccum factor' to pull me in. I'm only level 33, i have desire to be lvl 50 cause there isn't really anything to do from what I've heard.
50 was a joke to get to if you really wanted to, and then you get there and there's what? 7 dailies in Ilum (That are a bit of a beating after the 9th time fyi), space battles, or Flashpoint Dailies.. Oh ya that's right, at 50 they have rewards for running Flash Points.. if you can get a group together.. doh..
Just because I do not care, does not mean I do not understand.

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Nitewolfe
01.29.2012 , 12:40 PM | #244
Quote: Originally Posted by Neiloch View Post
This is how I work as well. I don't want to be locked into a clique of my guild for every little thing, especially if I am raiding on a schedule. I already play with these people a GUARANTEED several hours a week, a DF tool to meet some completely new people is great.

Any accusation that people who want a DF want it so they don't have to be in a guild is silly. That is unless they don't want to be in a 'wal-mart' guild which is completely understandable imo. Matter of fact last night while I was in a HM the 3 other people were talking about how their guilds are lacking members but they is no way in hell they will join a 'wal-mart' guild. You know, one that invites indiscriminately and has 200+ people.

The people who want others forced to be in a guild are anti-social.

Just because you get on every night chat away and play with people doesn't mean you are social when they are the same exact people every time. I'll give anyone a chance and group with them, this would be the MMO equivalent of a 'social butterfly' while people who will only group with guildees are in a closed off 'clique', about as anti-social as you can get without cutting off everyone completely.

Seriously saying tight knit guilds who interact with one another almost exclusively are more social than people who do PUGs is like saying joining a sequestered cult is more social than going to random parties every weekend.
Ill add to that.
Even in guilds a cross server lfd tool is needed. Example we had a guild issue last night.
We had 20 people on line most of which are still leveling their first character.
10 of us are level 50. 8 of us are raid ready and in fact raiding together while the rest of the guild gets to raid ready status.
So last night those 8 of us are working on hardmode EV after we cleared the normal mode hut zone.
That left 2 level 50's in guild that wanted to run flashpoints and could not do it via guild.
They tried to form a group via chat and had zero luck. They both logged out a hour later. One of them stated as they logged out.. I hate being level 50 there is nothing to do!

I know this feeling since if its not raid time i just level alts after i get my dailies done.
I dont see this changing much as the game matures.
Max group size is 16 so there are going to be people that are not in the main raid groups.
The guild cant help those people at all since the guild as a whole are busy inside raid zones and cant run flashpoints with the left out ones.

Being in a super guild would help some but then super guilds rarely have good raid progression.

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XxPetexX
01.29.2012 , 12:46 PM | #245
Quote: Originally Posted by Joretur View Post
Hell no to Cross server. It brings out the *** in everybody. There is no accountability for ones actions, nothing. I mean if you can't find 3 other friends to do something with, you don't deserve to be in the flashpoints anyway.

With cross server, people will then start ************ because content is too hard for the pug group, so it gets nerfed. People just are able to be even bigger douches because they are even more anonymous since its random servers.

Cross server ruined the community in wow. I watched it happen, you can cry all you want that it did't, but it did. LFR is even worse, it completely killed the game for me and everybody I know. There is no enjoyment in the game anymore(WoW).

Quit being so damned lazy.
It's got absolutley nothing to do with ppl being lazy.

Some ppl however don't have all the time in the world to play games, even if we enjoy it we have other obligations that must take priority.

And even if some ppl don't want to spend hours just spamming LFG, that's because it's not FUN. Not that they are lazy. A game should be about having fun.

You are operating on the idea that everyone who doesn't view games in the same way as you do are wrong and not as important as you are.

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Neiloch
01.29.2012 , 12:47 PM | #246
Quote: Originally Posted by Nitewolfe View Post
Being in a super guild would help some but then super guilds rarely have good raid progression.
Any time I have ever joined one of those 'super guilds' it has been a bad experience. No unpleasant events occurred, just always seemed like a huge waste of time. People would always try and schedule odd events like giant groups to run things like dailies. Arrange to do content on their lower level alts, or roll new characters completely and level them up together. Anyone doing things meaningful at 50 already have their static groups/cliques arranged and there is no more room.

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Metalmac
01.29.2012 , 01:21 PM | #247
PVE Raids in this game just do not exist at all.

No one is doing raids on my server and can not find anyone that sees in the future they will.

The easy access to PVP RNG gear and re rolling toons at low level to stay OP is number 1 now.

SWTOR fails at helping or promoting RAIDING. The problem is they made raiding complicated

But made PVP easy stupid.

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BlueSkittles
01.29.2012 , 01:21 PM | #248
Quote: Originally Posted by Gavin_Darkl View Post
http://tor-talk.com/the-dungeon-finder-debate/
-Link doesn't work.

http://tornetwork.net/tag/dungeon-finder/
-No new info.

http://www.machiavelliscat.com/liore...st-against-lf/
-Addressed below.

Many believe that a Cross server LFD tool is bad, even devs from BW.
"In LFD, the people in our groups were of no more value than digitized sprites." Quote from the last article. And I have to say a big **** YOU to anyone that feels that way. So I'm a "digitized sprite". Go back to playing...oh wait, you can't. All games have moved on, into the wonderful future of accessibility and fun. Stop trying to keep this game sucking for group play.

And a great comment from that article: "If other people are less inclined to run stuff with you because it’s easier/more convenient to do stuff with random people… what does that say about how much they wanted to socialize?"

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Touchbass
01.29.2012 , 01:29 PM | #249
I just wanted to shed some light on something people haven't touched on yet. There are some losers in the whole X-LFD debate, it isn't a simple win-win solution.

1) DPS queues go up for some, down for mostly everybody. Ever hear of people who say there queues went up after X-LFD was released, they weren't lying. The reason why there queues were so short was because mostly everybody else gave up looking for a group out of faustration or they where on a particulary good server that was very active.

2) People who enjoy being needed. What I mean is say you log on everyday at 7pm, you were met with a plothera of tells and invites to groups, you had a place on the server if you played enough. The problem is that most people didn't play that much to reach that kind of recognition. The X-LFD changed the philosophy of needing people to advance to being able to depend on yourself to play the game. Some people like this, some people don't.

3) Those who enjoyed imposing social justice on people. With X-LFD you could no longer go on a personal vendetta to ruin someones play experience who didn't play by the rules from which you subscribed yourself too. Again, people are divided on this.

That's about all I can think of, miss anything?

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MalignX
01.29.2012 , 01:43 PM | #250
Quote: Originally Posted by Touchbass View Post
I just wanted to shed some light on something people haven't touched on yet. There are some losers in the whole X-LFD debate, it isn't a simple win-win solution.

1) DPS queues go up for some, down for mostly everybody. Ever hear of people who say there queues went up after X-LFD was released, they weren't lying. The reason why there queues were so short was because mostly everybody else gave up looking for a group out of faustration or they where on a particulary good server that was very active.

2) People who enjoy being needed. What I mean is say you log on everyday at 7pm, you were met with a plothera of tells and invites to groups, you had a place on the server if you played enough. The problem is that most people didn't play that much to reach that kind of recognition. The X-LFD changed the philosophy of needing people to advance to being able to depend on yourself to play the game. Some people like this, some people don't.

3) Those who enjoyed imposing social justice on people. With X-LFD you could no longer go on a personal vendetta to ruin someones play experience who didn't play by the rules from which you subscribed yourself too. Again, people are divided on this.

That's about all I can think of, miss anything?
By some posters rationale I could state these three FACTS:

1) Bioware and SWTOR are anti-guild because they do not make you join a guild when you start playing the game.
2) Bioware and SWTOR are pro-ninja because they allow Need rolls on all gear.
3) If you can't role play you can't play this game because it's clearly labeled a MMORPG.
Just because I do not care, does not mean I do not understand.