I personally think Ishgard Restoraton was a genius idea and I would like to congratulate the team for coming up with this. Now that this is out of the way, let's get to the darker parts of it. This is gonna be a long post. Fair warning.
1- The leaderboard in gathering has become a sleep deprivation contest. Now while some people might argue that no one is forcing you to participate, I think its pretty alarming that some people openly, and proudly state that they are going to stay up for almost 48hrs to win a bunch of letters above their heads. I personally think this should (and was intended) to be about gathering skills and speed, and not about who can sustain lack of sleep the longest.
2- People are cheating. Yeah. They are. Through botting (which is provable) and account sharing (which is a lot harder to prove unless the person actually states it). But I invite you to read medical sleep studies and you cannot gain efficiency after 5 days of sleep deprivation. You should be hallucinating by then. Yet some people posted scores that suggest they've been going at it almost 24/7 and not only that but improved midway. This is a lie. While I cant be in this person's room, math and biology say its just not possible.
3- People follow suit. Not all people are cheaters though. But some of them do considers those cheaters as "heroes" or "legends", and are enticed to do the same with the wild dream of accessing the top 12. And I think this is where there is a big problem. To try to catch up with cheaters, some actually legit people are gonna sleep deprive themselves to spend the same amount of time gathering. I could go on the side effects of sleep deprivation but I will limit it to "weakened immune system" which is a pretty bad idea during a pandemic. Just saying.
Now. What to do? There's only 1 thing to do really. Limit the amount of time you can spend in the diadem during the leaderboard season and boost the points of items turn-ins. Not only doing this will prevent 1- Cheaters from account sharing as it will become irrelevant 2- Bots from running around the clock 3- Due to limits, prices of said item will go from memes to actually profitable. 4- It's actually gonna become a contest of skill and speed and not sleep deprivation which I think was the goal to begin with. I think 9hrs a day would be reasonable as i think 12hrs is already too much and 6 might actually cause too great of a rarity on the items for crafters. But they absolutely should limit the amount of lockouts you can spend in there for the seasonal event. .
I cant just let it slide and ignore it with the excuse "People can do what they want". Yes, they can, but a lot of them are doing it because of people who are actually cheating so they're decision is quite misguided. I think this content was a great idea, but some bad apples completely rotted the basket at this point and I think something should be done about it.
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1- The leaderboard in gathering has become a sleep deprivation contest. Now while some people might argue that no one is forcing you to participate, I think its pretty alarming that some people openly, and proudly state that they are going to stay up for almost 48hrs to win a bunch of letters above their heads. I personally think this should (and was intended) to be about gathering skills and speed, and not about who can sustain lack of sleep the longest.
2- People are cheating. Yeah. They are. Through botting (which is provable) and account sharing (which is a lot harder to prove unless the person actually states it). But I invite you to read medical sleep studies and you cannot gain efficiency after 5 days of sleep deprivation. You should be hallucinating by then. Yet some people posted scores that suggest they've been going at it almost 24/7 and not only that but improved midway. This is a lie. While I cant be in this person's room, math and biology say its just not possible.
3- People follow suit. Not all people are cheaters though. But some of them do considers those cheaters as "heroes" or "legends", and are enticed to do the same with the wild dream of accessing the top 12. And I think this is where there is a big problem. To try to catch up with cheaters, some actually legit people are gonna sleep deprive themselves to spend the same amount of time gathering. I could go on the side effects of sleep deprivation but I will limit it to "weakened immune system" which is a pretty bad idea during a pandemic. Just saying.
Now. What to do? There's only 1 thing to do really. Limit the amount of time you can spend in the diadem during the leaderboard season and boost the points of items turn-ins. Not only doing this will prevent 1- Cheaters from account sharing as it will become irrelevant 2- Bots from running around the clock 3- Due to limits, prices of said item will go from memes to actually profitable. 4- It's actually gonna become a contest of skill and speed and not sleep deprivation which I think was the goal to begin with. I think 9hrs a day would be reasonable as i think 12hrs is already too much and 6 might actually cause too great of a rarity on the items for crafters. But they absolutely should limit the amount of lockouts you can spend in there for the seasonal event. .
I cant just let it slide and ignore it with the excuse "People can do what they want". Yes, they can, but a lot of them are doing it because of people who are actually cheating so they're decision is quite misguided. I think this content was a great idea, but some bad apples completely rotted the basket at this point and I think something should be done about it.
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