Mocha
Legendary
Introduction
In this post I will address the issue of activity and address the desire for competition. I will provide an open ended suggestion to help us change as a community should we desire to do so. I will give you my opinions on the subject and I hope to see yours in return. I am a casual player at this point but I take communities seriously. There will be no off topic posts, trolling posts, disrespectful or flaming posts in this thread. Please do not take this as a challenge and please keep this thread constructive. I am trying to make things more enjoyable for everyone.
Activity
Whether or not we care for each other is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is we rely on each other to have fun playing our twinks. If we did not care for this bracket, we would not be trying to keep our community going and we would be content playing in the 20-24 bracket. With that being said, we rely on each other in order to enjoy our twinks.
Consider a chess match only with no opponent. This is the scenario that we are dealing with right now. How we got here is a different discussion. What is clear is that we need to change our priorities in order to produce growth in our community. We may continue to only get pops on a scheduled basis and that is fine with many of us here. However, wouldn't it be better if we could enjoy our bracket whenever we were interested in doing so?
Competition
Up until now competition has been the driving force between 19s. It was always about which rogue was better than another, or which group of 5 was better than another or which guild was better than another. Believe me, I have lived through the rising of competition and the decline in competition. It would be great to enjoy games full of geared twinks all on viable classes whenever we would like to. Competition is what makes games enjoyable for most people in the community and when under geared players join games, we feel the affect and as a result we have less fun.
However at this point games come on a scheduled basis and there is the premading season of the summer. Nobody is having any fun at all. If we would like to change things back to having consistent pops on a daily basis and perhaps an extension to the premading season, our interests and priorities simply need to change. What do we need to do?
Pugs
Pugs are practice games. Anyone should be able to enjoy pugs whether or not they are highly geared or not. There needs to exist two levels of gameplay in the 19 twink community. One for high competition and one that is more inclusive and welcoming to those who are not as experienced where they can develop their ability to join a more competitive atmosphere.
Pugs should not consist of groups running into WSG with Skype looking to dominate anyone. With this being said, people should be looking to pug solo and on whatever class / spec they wish to play. I encourage we stay away from playing the most powerful classes for the sole purpose of them being the most powerful.
Pugs cannot be about winning all the time. Pugs should be about encouraging respectful gameplay and sportsmanship. Right now we do not see pugs often.
Wargames
If you're looking for competition it is not hard to choose your teammates and synchronize wargames. You do not even need a full team of 10 players. You get to select who's going to partake in your matches. Therefore, under geared teammates will never even come in to play.
Wargames can happen any time we chose for them to. With that being said organizing wargames on nights where pugs are scheduled will only result in a this or that option as opposed to both levels of gameplay coexisting.
Wargames should be all about teamwork and winning as a team. This is where you're looking to dominate your opponent whether it be a 7v7 or a 10 v 10 guild vs guild premade.
Activity and Competition Go Hand-In-Hand
Right now we need activity. We need numbers. That means working to recruit others on our servers and working with less skilled players. We need to make the 15-19 bracket open and available to them and when they do participate in a pug we need to make sure that they want to come back and that they want to requeue.
I'm not saying to lose the desire for competition. I'm saying that we need to continue with scheduled pug pops on a weekly basis while we also provide room for highly competitive wargames in between. Wargames do not require much effort. Most people who would partake in these games are spending time on other characters and would be looking to enjoy highly competitive games at 19. I understand that it's hard to play other specs in pugs when you're looking to develop your skill for wargames, but if we do more wargames they will become practices in and of themselves.
I am not looking to take any attention away from Myrm's tournament. I just hope that more of you begin trying to find others who would be interested in playing pugs at 19 and I hope you take initiative to play other specs and classes in attempt to keep pugs fun for other puggers.
TLDR: Play wargames if you're interested in competition. Stop looking for competition in pugs and stop rolling into pugs looking to dominate. In time pugs will become more competitive and we will gain more members interested in twinking in our bracket. Wargames are independent from activity.
Please post your opinions, thoughts and suggestions and do so in a respectful manner. As a casual player I'm content with having pugs on a weekly basis, however we can also create a more enjoyable community for those who are not only casual but those of us who are more interested in a highly competitive atmosphere.
Cheers,
Mocha
In this post I will address the issue of activity and address the desire for competition. I will provide an open ended suggestion to help us change as a community should we desire to do so. I will give you my opinions on the subject and I hope to see yours in return. I am a casual player at this point but I take communities seriously. There will be no off topic posts, trolling posts, disrespectful or flaming posts in this thread. Please do not take this as a challenge and please keep this thread constructive. I am trying to make things more enjoyable for everyone.
Activity
Whether or not we care for each other is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is we rely on each other to have fun playing our twinks. If we did not care for this bracket, we would not be trying to keep our community going and we would be content playing in the 20-24 bracket. With that being said, we rely on each other in order to enjoy our twinks.
Consider a chess match only with no opponent. This is the scenario that we are dealing with right now. How we got here is a different discussion. What is clear is that we need to change our priorities in order to produce growth in our community. We may continue to only get pops on a scheduled basis and that is fine with many of us here. However, wouldn't it be better if we could enjoy our bracket whenever we were interested in doing so?
Competition
Up until now competition has been the driving force between 19s. It was always about which rogue was better than another, or which group of 5 was better than another or which guild was better than another. Believe me, I have lived through the rising of competition and the decline in competition. It would be great to enjoy games full of geared twinks all on viable classes whenever we would like to. Competition is what makes games enjoyable for most people in the community and when under geared players join games, we feel the affect and as a result we have less fun.
However at this point games come on a scheduled basis and there is the premading season of the summer. Nobody is having any fun at all. If we would like to change things back to having consistent pops on a daily basis and perhaps an extension to the premading season, our interests and priorities simply need to change. What do we need to do?
Pugs
Pugs are practice games. Anyone should be able to enjoy pugs whether or not they are highly geared or not. There needs to exist two levels of gameplay in the 19 twink community. One for high competition and one that is more inclusive and welcoming to those who are not as experienced where they can develop their ability to join a more competitive atmosphere.
Pugs should not consist of groups running into WSG with Skype looking to dominate anyone. With this being said, people should be looking to pug solo and on whatever class / spec they wish to play. I encourage we stay away from playing the most powerful classes for the sole purpose of them being the most powerful.
Pugs cannot be about winning all the time. Pugs should be about encouraging respectful gameplay and sportsmanship. Right now we do not see pugs often.
Wargames
If you're looking for competition it is not hard to choose your teammates and synchronize wargames. You do not even need a full team of 10 players. You get to select who's going to partake in your matches. Therefore, under geared teammates will never even come in to play.
Wargames can happen any time we chose for them to. With that being said organizing wargames on nights where pugs are scheduled will only result in a this or that option as opposed to both levels of gameplay coexisting.
Wargames should be all about teamwork and winning as a team. This is where you're looking to dominate your opponent whether it be a 7v7 or a 10 v 10 guild vs guild premade.
Activity and Competition Go Hand-In-Hand
Right now we need activity. We need numbers. That means working to recruit others on our servers and working with less skilled players. We need to make the 15-19 bracket open and available to them and when they do participate in a pug we need to make sure that they want to come back and that they want to requeue.
I'm not saying to lose the desire for competition. I'm saying that we need to continue with scheduled pug pops on a weekly basis while we also provide room for highly competitive wargames in between. Wargames do not require much effort. Most people who would partake in these games are spending time on other characters and would be looking to enjoy highly competitive games at 19. I understand that it's hard to play other specs in pugs when you're looking to develop your skill for wargames, but if we do more wargames they will become practices in and of themselves.
I am not looking to take any attention away from Myrm's tournament. I just hope that more of you begin trying to find others who would be interested in playing pugs at 19 and I hope you take initiative to play other specs and classes in attempt to keep pugs fun for other puggers.
TLDR: Play wargames if you're interested in competition. Stop looking for competition in pugs and stop rolling into pugs looking to dominate. In time pugs will become more competitive and we will gain more members interested in twinking in our bracket. Wargames are independent from activity.
Please post your opinions, thoughts and suggestions and do so in a respectful manner. As a casual player I'm content with having pugs on a weekly basis, however we can also create a more enjoyable community for those who are not only casual but those of us who are more interested in a highly competitive atmosphere.
Cheers,
Mocha
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