PetFish Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I'm way behind in my Forged Alliances story arc so for the last two weeks I've been doing all three missions on all my 55s (I have 3 more to go). They've all been done with Group Finder so that makes approximately 27 different players (9x3, and I say 'approximately' cuz there may have been a few "let's do the next one" re-PUGs in there). Out of all those we only had to kick 1 person for being an abusive loser early on. Each flashpoint there'd be a wipe, a fubar, a flub, or whatever but nobody got mad or whined or complained. New people were treated with respect and helped out to learn the missions and/or mechanics and nobody spammed for the spacebar. Nobody 'needed' on anything they didn't actually need other than materials and special drops. Reading through these forums it's very easy to think that the PUG-life is 99% trolls and jerks but that isn't my experience at all and I find that just cuz something bad happens once or twice people are ready to just be Chicken Little and run around screaming that the sky is falling. Maybe it's just me and I'm awesome, but I doubt that, and maybe it's just Jedi Covenant, but I find the good in this game far outweighs the bad and I wish more people would be able to see and experience it this way but the focus always seems to be on the negative, I'm guilty of this myself occasionally, instead of the positive. TL;DR - There's way more "good" in PUGs than "bad". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetFish Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 Well, I knew this thread wouldn't go very far cuz there's no flaming/trolling, but to actually go nowhere?... I'm impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuku-sama Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 No... It's just that the 'Weird Personn You Meet in Group Finder' also has its fair share of awesome... No need to use two threads when one does it wellenough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLordJaden Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 I am on jc aa well and totally agree. There were thos people on the weird people thread with all their storues and I had my one and....that was it lol. When I did the forged alliances quest it was so chill, nobody asked for spacebar I didnt even know the tacts(or ask we were super overgeared for it lol) and it went beautifully. Jc just seems a good server in general Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidelicatessen Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Well, I knew this thread wouldn't go very far cuz there's no flaming/trolling, but to actually go nowhere?... I'm impressed. It's not the flaming/trolling that keeps the "Weird People" thread going. It's the fact that stories about BAD GROUPS are more interesting to read about than stories about GOOD GROUPS. It's called conflict, and it's necessary for a story to be interesting. Nobody wants to read about good PuG experiences because they make boring stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TACeMossie Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 It's not the flaming/trolling that keeps the "Weird People" thread going. It's the fact that stories about BAD GROUPS are more interesting to read about than stories about GOOD GROUPS. It's called conflict, and it's necessary for a story to be interesting. Nobody wants to read about good PuG experiences because they make boring stories. Well sometimes the good ones are interesting. It doesn't happen often, but when it does... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidelicatessen Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Well sometimes the good ones are interesting. It doesn't happen often, but when it does... The good ones are ALWAYS interesting to actually be in. In fact, they are fun! But they make crappy stories. Generally, the rule is, if the experience was a pain to sit through or went badly, it will make a good story. If the experience went smoothly and everything happened as it should, it will make a boring story. Look at this thread go, though! Three posts in two hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyinSpaghetti Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) No... It's just that the 'Weird Personn You Meet in Group Finder' also has its fair share of awesome... No need to use two threads when one does it wellenough It also has it's fair share of whine, about time someone made a more positive thread on here. Nobody wants to read about good PuG experiences because they make boring stories. Nobody wants to hear about good pugs because good pug group stories wont help drive guild recruitment... Edited September 16, 2014 by FlyinSpaghetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdatt Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 I think this type of thread has been started on multiple occasions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EranofArcadia Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 I've mentioned several good PuG experiences in the other thread. In fact, I think like half of my posts there are about good experiences, but where there was still some conflict or element of weirdness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kymerous Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 There's an awesome person in every single GF group I enter....ME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoanz Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Just got from Taral. Good tank (play safe, never charging into battle with 1/2 hp if he has chance to heal himself out of combat, also gave time for me - healer - to recover energy). DPS are in line. No ninja looter, no trash talk. Everything was good . Wish I have this kind of group more often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobFredJohn Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 (edited) ^^ and this demonstrates why there aren't many stories here, as they will all be copy and paste of this 1. The only good things I have to say about people is when there are bad people in the group (which ends up in weird people thread). To use an example a long time ago on my merc healer in Cad SM. The tank and 1 dps didn't know about the fire and both died. The other dps was an assassin and they switched to dark charge to lighten my load on the healing. That is a good player, when stuff goes wrong they change what they do to try to get through the issues (however stuff only goes wrong if theres weird people in the group). Edited September 19, 2014 by BobFredJohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoanz Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 That's true, because when something happened because people don't play right, we'll have to vent our frustration immediately (and ends up in weird people thread ) . I just think I should write this one because it was the complete opposite of my previous experience which I wrote on the weird people thread weird people FP: I'm the only cunning char, the rest are Jedi. 3 cunning gears dropped, all 3 got Ninja looted by the DPS (sen ofc) awesome people FP: 3 Cunning, me and 2 gunslinger DPS. 2 cunning gears dropped and I got all of them. At some point I think they even chose pass for the dropped gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetFish Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 I understand "good" stories are boring so it's no big deal, I just wanted to shout-out to all the good and helpful players around. The thing about bad stories, though, is that new players or even short-bus players will read the bad and then get scared to play cuz they fear everyone is a douche. Same thing with bad reviews of stuff, people tend to believe those more than the good ones. I love you guys!... Ah, SCREW YOU GUYS! hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValeGreiger Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I think this type of thread has been started on multiple occasions. Yup. Made one myself some time back. Didn't go far at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EranofArcadia Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I'd like to give a shoutout to that one tank in that one FP I ran who put guard on a DPS instead of the healer. . . . I'm pretty sure that's happened. Maybe even multiple times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kymerous Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I'd like to give a shoutout to that one tank in that one FP I ran who put guard on a DPS instead of the healer. . . . I'm pretty sure that's happened. Maybe even multiple times. pix or it didnt happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetFish Posted September 22, 2014 Author Share Posted September 22, 2014 September 21, 2014 @ 8:30pm PSTJedi CovenantManaan There were three research data drops and one player got two of them and at the end asked the ones who didn't get one to /roll for it, which I won, yay me. But thanks to Ada'lyn for being awesome and doing that. I also learned that the small puddles don't hurt so don't run out of them and to not move the boss around cuz if the small puddles are all over the place it makes the big puddle way worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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