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TyHeaton
07.27.2012 , 03:31 PM | #261
I watch every scene, regardless of if it's normal or hard mode. If people get uppity and starts creaming "SPAAACE BAR OR KIIIICK" I just join them, saying "spacebar" myself. That way they don't know who to kick unless it's a guild group.

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dawlben
07.27.2012 , 03:32 PM | #262
If you're in a rush let people know in the beginning that way everyone knows what's up. I've space barred through cut scenes because I've been through the dialogue enough that I was tired of it , but I would wait on everyone else to catch up. no point in rushing them IT IS MM (MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER). Learn meditation in the down time.

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TheBBP
07.27.2012 , 03:50 PM | #263
Quote: Originally Posted by dawlben View Post
If you're in a rush let people know in the beginning that way everyone knows what's up. I've space barred through cut scenes because I've been through the dialogue enough that I was tired of it , but I would wait on everyone else to catch up. no point in rushing them IT IS MM (MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER). Learn meditation in the down time.
I have also spacebar'd through scenes when the folks in a hurry ask nicely. However, if they act like it is our duty to spacebar... Different outcome. I will also be patient if there is only one person wanting to watch the scenes. I will often go out of my way to make them feel welcome to do so since we have reached the age of "spcbr nao go fstr!".

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TheBBP
07.27.2012 , 03:51 PM | #264
Quote: Originally Posted by TyHeaton View Post
I watch every scene, regardless of if it's normal or hard mode. If people get uppity and starts creaming "SPAAACE BAR OR KIIIICK" I just join them, saying "spacebar" myself. That way they don't know who to kick unless it's a guild group.
I have seen this tactic mentioned before. I like it.

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ProsaicProse
07.27.2012 , 03:59 PM | #265
Quote: Originally Posted by TyHeaton View Post
I watch every scene, regardless of if it's normal or hard mode. If people get uppity and starts creaming "SPAAACE BAR OR KIIIICK" I just join them, saying "spacebar" myself. That way they don't know who to kick unless it's a guild group.
LOL I like that, I will try it if the issue ever arises.

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Styxx
07.28.2012 , 06:25 AM | #266
The other day, we had a Guild group of 3 for Lost Island HM. We PuG`d a healer from General. Solid player.

Our plan was to speedrun and skip the bonus boss, having it done 2 times for the day already. The guy came out as a really nice fellow and he stated that he never done the Bonus. We gone out of our way and did it too.

But ONLY because he was nice.

The equal would have been equally true : if he would apply a "I`m a tank/healer and I will show you who`s boss".. well... we`d kick him and find a replacement.

We made a friend that day, not one more name for "The List".

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Ratajack
07.28.2012 , 07:24 AM | #267
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Wow you typed a lot assuming I would actually do that. I was just trying to make a point.

I would never do that. It's as childish and selfish as forcing 3/4 of the players in a hard-mode flashpoint to wait for you while you watch the cut-scenes for the 20th time. Or to enrage and max out the timers on every player choice just because someone asked you to skip the dialog in a way that didn't coddle your sensitive nature.

What I do is type this into chat:

"I'm sorry, I don't have the time or patience to sit through these cut scenes yet again."

Or even:

"I'm sorry, I don't have the time or patience to kill these optional bosses if they won't improve anyone's gear."

Followed by:

"Hopefully the next tank|healer in the queue will be more compatible with your goals."

Then immediately after:

/leave

They can watch a cutscene or 7 while they wait for the next tank or healer to queue and I go do something more enjoyable with my time. Everyone wins. It's beautiful.


EDIT: But please do get off your "respectful" high horse. It is no more respectful for one player to waste other players' time in a hard mode flashpoint than it is for another player to expect his time to not be wasted.
If having to sit through a few cutscenes is too much of a waste of someone's time, I seriously doubt that they would even consider actually dropping group and having to sit through a debuff before they could even queue again. It would likely be quicker to finish the run, even watching the cutscenes, than to eat a debuff, the exceptions being esseles and BT. The much more likely scenario, IMO, is that the impatient person would threaten to leave if the person(s) who wish to watch the cutscenes or do optional bosses are not vote-kicked. This is even more likely, IMO, if the impatient one is either a tank or healer.

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metalfenix
07.28.2012 , 07:36 AM | #268
For me, wasting, wasting other's would be not choosing their dialog options quickly, or just going AFK without warning the group.

Ah, and BTW, I usually use the spacebar BUT I keave the whole cinematic of killings in Black Talon, and the last boss intro on Eseless, bad luck if someone enrages about it. Lucky for me, I'm the tank or healer
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liammozz
07.28.2012 , 09:10 AM | #269
i have done imperial and the republic starter FP multiple times now enough to safely say i have seen every possible outcome (trying to get pants that aren't there to drop)

if i make a new alt i just don't do them any more no matter how well written something is once you have seen it so many times its boring, am not going to tell any one to space bar but am also not going to sit through it again so its kind of a loss on both sides

all the other FP's i don't mind if they watch the cut scenes there not that long but the Black Talon for example is 15min of cut scenes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRh8_RBOyGI for evidence

now am not one for complaining but to have to sit through 1h 15min of cut senes to do the average 5 runs for gear is not what i call fun

that's my 2p worth

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scullzomben
07.28.2012 , 10:21 AM | #270
Well, I was EXTREMELY bored tonight while doing a bunch of uploads. So, I hope you bickering people's enjoy my effort.

In The Black Talon (Light Side), there is 17 minutes and 5 seconds worth of cut scenes. While it isn't quite the 20 minutes some were saying, it is a lot closer to that than the "No more than 5 minutes" others were saying. The 5 minute mark was about where your first LS/DS choice was.
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