Monday 31 January 2011

Behind all the epic gears

Takagi, one DRG in Tav's LS seems to admire one relic DRG on our server a lot, who has a lot of good gears such as relic polearm, AF3+2 5/5, Ares 5/5 etc. When I asked him why he pay so much attention he just replied he likes to see ppl in epic gears, what he didn't know is how those ppl got their epic gears.

Basically, if you see one leader of the LS has way better gear than other LS member, then 95% of the chance is because he lotted everything first, other LS member only get left overs. The DRG Tak admired a lot runs an EGLS, and in that LS leaders decide who lot which item when stuff drops, of course all the epic and rare stuff goes to leader and his friends, and regular members gets weaker drops. I have friends in that LS, and he often complains a lot about it, and that's how drama usually occurs, because there're no fair rules/clear point system, and LS leaders gets all the benefit.

Tav seems to believe making friend with LS leader is the quickest and easiest way to get epic gears, maybe he is right, he was a sack of one EGLS and friend of the LS leader. But somehow I didn't buy it, especially after his EGLS broke because of the drama itself. I can easily name many EGLS on this server without a fair and clear point system and lots of favoritism involved. Sadly most of them are NA/EU LS, lol. Now I kinda miss Escaflowne, and how they do events.

Of course, not all epicly geared players are greedy leaders, some really worked hard and deserved it. Some just has a more efficient group to do stuff with. But most of the EGLS I know either has a bad reputation because of favoritism, or broke because of favoritism.

Distributing gears is an art, if someone didn't get what they deserve after all the work, drama bound to occur. Greedy LS leaders won't have a good name, gears may be epic, but in the end players that's not greedy deserve more respect than those epicly geared greedy leaders. And that kind of LS won't have any good reputation. So now I learned to ignore all the afk players in jeuno/WG showing off their epic gears, who knows what's the story behind those gears. Ninja or greedy, who knows.

2 comments:

  1. Lol... I knew who it was at the first paragraph. Yeah, that person is a complete drama king.

    In regards to the distribution of gear, it tends to become very difficult to follow the black and white of a set rules system after a long time of running an LS. People who think they've put in more effort than others will get fed up with it, or items that are legitimately freelot they'll feel they have "earned" more right on lotting.

    If you want to strictly abide by the rules and keep things perfectly fair, prepare to have very few friends in your LS as time goes on.

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  2. IMO, if the rule has clear point system and right rule, I don't see there's any room for anyone in LS to get fed up with it. The whole point of rules and point system is to eliminate the gray area so no one has a legitimate reason to start drama. That's why I automatically avoid LS that leaders decide who get to lot stuff, too many gray areas and I ended up having to make friend with LS leader to get stuff which is tiring XD

    For me, EG events, as long as it has something about drops and stuff, then it's business. When stuff drops, someone bound to get the drop and walk away happily, and someone get nothing and wasted their time. You can't make everyone happy, so the only way to make things fair is to stick with the rule and no room for favoritism and such. If I'm an EGLS leader, I'd rather keep a distance away from every member to avoid favoritism at all cost. But then again, I don't run LS so I guess I really have no right to speak for LS leaders about the problem they're facing and solutions.

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