If you want to make this better in the future for only competitions:
Make it a buff you have to renew hourly that when you leave the zone goes away. We do it with the crafter hearths below 70.
1. Make the final expert crafts have a decay rate. Kill the sandbagging by limiting those to must be turned in in less than a 48 hour period.
2. Make gathered items have a decay rate before appraisal.
4. This competition isn't fair to people with budding s FCs with access to control III buffs. So if you don't have an FC with a house or would run the control buff... you lose so much quality .
After being a 1st place last round and slowly rising up to a 3rd today, and yeah its not over, but I know a lot of hard working people are going to get kicked out for the sandbaggers. People lose to the ability of those who can afford multiple retainers just on the sandbagging.
Even though I'm not as good at it this time around, I agree with what SE did to the right thing with the synthesis part of this, but they have yet to do a "fair" competition for the players. People should know they shouldn't think sleeping 8 hours and not get bumped out of the top 12. It would just be nice to have a fair competition, and this is far from it. I mean "Pero"... its proof.
I feel the only reason I'm 3rd is people cannot contend with the bots, and even if they do the sandbaggers will knock them out of the top 12 anyway.
Had my first, but once I got past that and I really looked at this... We lose a ton of good players that would compete to these things. Many of them are resource backed, ie: extra retainers, FC's with house that spun up the crafter buffs early, etc. Even the extra choco saddle bag from the paid cellphone app is just one more place to fill up before the sandbag gets a little worse. I write this will full access to all of it. Please improve, we look forward to it. I ran all the things I normally run during this event; but its hardly what I would call fair.
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Make it a buff you have to renew hourly that when you leave the zone goes away. We do it with the crafter hearths below 70.
1. Make the final expert crafts have a decay rate. Kill the sandbagging by limiting those to must be turned in in less than a 48 hour period.
2. Make gathered items have a decay rate before appraisal.
4. This competition isn't fair to people with budding s FCs with access to control III buffs. So if you don't have an FC with a house or would run the control buff... you lose so much quality .
After being a 1st place last round and slowly rising up to a 3rd today, and yeah its not over, but I know a lot of hard working people are going to get kicked out for the sandbaggers. People lose to the ability of those who can afford multiple retainers just on the sandbagging.
Even though I'm not as good at it this time around, I agree with what SE did to the right thing with the synthesis part of this, but they have yet to do a "fair" competition for the players. People should know they shouldn't think sleeping 8 hours and not get bumped out of the top 12. It would just be nice to have a fair competition, and this is far from it. I mean "Pero"... its proof.
I feel the only reason I'm 3rd is people cannot contend with the bots, and even if they do the sandbaggers will knock them out of the top 12 anyway.
Had my first, but once I got past that and I really looked at this... We lose a ton of good players that would compete to these things. Many of them are resource backed, ie: extra retainers, FC's with house that spun up the crafter buffs early, etc. Even the extra choco saddle bag from the paid cellphone app is just one more place to fill up before the sandbag gets a little worse. I write this will full access to all of it. Please improve, we look forward to it. I ran all the things I normally run during this event; but its hardly what I would call fair.
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