How about the ugly things we saw instead

[Max_Power]

This is for all you, cynical, worker-types out there :

 

[Belle1997]

Ugly things we saw....




I think I saw Aengus at one point in the pirate lobby...

I did to and he looked so lost and lonely
And I believe he was incognito but all is a blur would have sworn he had a Jack sparrow top and pants.

But then again when I saw him maybe I just tried to push the memory out of my mind

 

[Belle1997]

This is for all you, cynical, worker-types out there :

Love it love it.

 

[FleaCircusAcrobat]

Max, out of all the teams we played with, only one person embodied all three of your motivational posters. We really ought to create a guide on

HOW TO IDENTIFY DREAM CRUSHERS

1) Dream crushers have a talent for gushing and buttering up the team's MVP player. During queue waits, when they're separated from most of the team, dream crushers will greet the MVP player with hello!s and howareya!s while pointedly ignoring the sidekicks that played dead ducks for 4+ hours.

2) While everyone else is trying to play the game, dream crushers will flood the screen with exclamations about how excited they are to help everyone out and hey, we should add each other to our friends list! All fluff, with few attempts to coach their team on a successful strategy. Maybe when it's close to their turn, they'll parrot something someone else suggested. If your team is lucky, these massive chat bubbles won't distract the other players from their difficult task or cause them to crash. In my experience, the true Blue Crewers who stick with you until the end - and I've met many - don't talk much because they're healing. And shooting dead ducks. And organizing multiple team queues to cut down on lobby waits. And fighting off days of sleep and food deprivation. They're too tired to kiss anyone up.

3) They intentionally fail to follow instructions that 29 other people (including young children!) understood on the first go. No matter how many times you explain that planting your dead duck in the middle of the battlefield could a) endanger your crew with an accidental explosion and b) give your shooters less points* since they're wasting precious time either getting stuck on your prow or veering around you, dream crushers will state that you already said that then attempt to throw the game by blocking the paths of your healers and shooters. You are not surprised that this sharp shooter is stuck in the dead duck position (usually reserved for the crash-prone or those nursing illnesses, not decent pirates like the dream crusher who can maneuver the field without shooting the winner) because s/he clearly does not know the meaning of cooperation and teamwork.

* I've sat in enough losing games to know that shooters sometimes miss the 575 score by a matter of points, arg.

4) When they publicly thank their team in the official I Beat the Big Quest thread, they will have the gall not to mention the three players they abandoned once they won. (Note that I'm not including myself in this number since I was merely helping a friend out.)

5) Remember that part about the friends list? That will haunt the team later on when the dream crusher drags the MVP player away from a waiting lobby of teammates. All this to help the dream crusher chase ghosts with no discernable benefit to the MVP player, who did not work up to the Haunted Mansion section yet because he was busy healing in pirates - a task the dream crusher could accomplish, but refused to. During that wasted time, the MVP player could've helped two more loyal teammates pass pirates.

6) While you do not bother to check the Disboards all day because you are too busy skipping meals and nap times to assist your teammates, the dream crusher will post multiple requests on how to pass ghosts and jungle cruise. After wasting the time of actual helpers who are out there on the frontlines, dream crushers will rhapsodize about how they will repay your kindness by assisting their friends. Of course that's not remotely possible since they a) joined a team that consisted of strangers, b) never returned to lend a hand to the team that gave them enough time to finish the quest. Unsurprisingly, nobody thanks the dream crusher because there's no evidence to back up his / her claims of Good Samaritantude.

When I think of the incredible sweethearts who couldn't complete the quest because they gave up their turns and jungle cruise time to help dream crushers like this, I am appalled. If anything, VMK awarded the dream crushers who spent most of the quest time helping themselves.

 

[VMK_Mouse]

I saw very little poor behavior. Mostly just inconsideration and an overall lack of respect for other players.

• Joining games repeatedly after being told that a team was set
• Three ppl waiting in a lobby for five more ppl to show up who were not even logged in
• Not being organized and using 20 minutes to discuss the strategy in the pirates lobby
• People going afk to eat dinner, shower and shop while waiting on others to sign into vmk.

However, most of these were kids who were desperate to beat the quest. I suppose this that is why I did not see it as poor behavior. However, I did see some of that from adults as well.

I just wanted to clarify.....

I am not referring to ppl being in the lobby waiting on their teams. None of us could help that at all. I am really referring to the lack of consideration for others that are trying to complete the quest. We all had the same goal and while a lot of ppl took that into account, many did not.

Our team all went at the same time and were within 8-10 of one another in queue. If we found out that somebody wasn't, we all got out of queue and did it again. We saw many ppl saying things like "I tone 'title' to log in and they will get in q now" or "tell 'title' to get in q now and we will wait for him" when five of them were there waiting. With a 15 person limit in a room, they would have to wait even longer for that one person to finally get in than they would if they met him in a room and they all got in together.

I only wanted to clarify bc I did not want it to sound like I did not want to share the lobby. We all had the same rights to be there, it is just the flagrant disregard of others that I am referring to. For this quest, VMK should have made the room capacity/occupancy higher.

 

[BayKid]

I just wanted to clarify.....

I am not referring to ppl being in the lobby waiting on their teams. None of us could help that at all. I am really referring to the lack of consideration for others that are trying to complete the quest. We all had the same goal and while a lot of ppl took that into account, many did not.

Our team all went at the same time and were within 8-10 of one another in queue. If we found out that somebody wasn't, we all got out of queue and did it again. We saw many ppl saying things like "I tone 'title' to log in and they will get in q now" or "tell 'title' to get in q now and we will wait for him" when five of them were there waiting. With a 15 person limit in a room, they would have to wait even longer for that one person to finally get in than they would if they met him in a room and they all got in together.

I only wanted to clarify bc I did not want it to sound like I did not want to share the lobby. We all had the same rights to be there, it is just the flagrant disregard of others that I am referring to. For this quest, VMK should have made the room capacity/occupancy higher.

well, again, like some of us have already said--the mess in the lobbies are solely VMK's doing by creating a quest that clogged POTC to begin with, and not doing anything about it...to lay some blame on ppl who were in the lobby not being "considerate" to those completing quests is arrogant. why should someone receive more consideration merely because they are in a quest? a LOT of ppl were in those lobbies playing the quest, so are those who chose not to play the quest supposed to just step aside for everyone in order to be "considerate"?

if i chose to enter a lobby just to dance and watch the mayhem (and i didn't) then that's my right--VMK should do a better job of managing there quests, which is not the playing community's responsibility.

this all sounds selfish for sure, but my point is that ALL players should be able to play POTC or anything in VMK for that matter equally, and no one group of players (teams, buddies, etc) should be given any more consideration over the next poor chap!

POTC anyone?

 

[redshoe]

if i chose to enter a lobby just to dance and watch the mayhem (and i didn't) then that's my right--VMK should do a better job of managing there quests, which is not the playing community's responsibility.

this all sounds selfish for sure, but my point is that ALL players should be able to play POTC or anything in VMK for that matter equally, and no one group of players (teams, buddies, etc) should be given any more consideration over the next poor chap!

POTC anyone?

I concur.

And no. No POTC. None!