No more speed running AKFollow

No maybe we wont get douche tanks or healers who drop df because the pug group isnt speedrunning.

Which change was made that prevents speed runs?

I think what they should do is to add a penalty for dropping DF. Say, a 15 minute timer to search for the same duty you dropped. That way people will be less inclined to drop. Besides, eventualy the majority of people will have finished the story, so this wont be an issue. These people wanting to do speedruns should make their own party or just deal with it. Asking someone to skip their CS because your impatient is pretty rude, especially when your using the public matchmaking. End game isnt going anywhere.

Hahaha that was good, but I'm glad because it proves at least you've never dropped :)

Edited, Sep 12th 2013 2:33pm by SyniteonReflux

Lol, I didnt know that either. I've never dropped out intentially, however I got kicked from the Ifrit fight my first time... I was like OMG!!! but when I logged back in I was in the same party and they thanked me for coming back. What a great feature in the DF

There isn't one, but people will cut off their noses just to be a-holes, because that'll show em!

Again, only an issue if the party literally does not have enough time to finish the quest (i.e 15 minutes to beat all forms of Ultima). Otherwise, totally acceptable.

I will watch cutscenes when I get to that point on my tank, but then I'll contribute to the greater good by sometimes queueing up for dungeon runs already in progress (which I did the other day, and got a sweet new lvl 23 sword).

I do that too, sometimes you get in right at the end and get credit

I haven't done this dungeon yet, but it sounds like they need to change monster behavior in the dungeon so that mobs don't lose agro, and you have to kill all mobs with agro before you can proceed to the end.

If people don't cool it with speed runs, then this is probably what's coming. Yoshi-P has made it pretty clear that speed runs were not intended.

I sincerely doubt it. Apart from the Heal exploit at the very beginning of 1.0 there has not been any ban from exploiting game mechanics (not hacking).

Plenty of people BLM burn Garuda HM in 1.0. Granted it's not easy to achieve that, but it's not intended either to entirely skip several of Garuda HM battle phases.

Edited, Sep 12th 2013 7:55pm by Khornette

All that means is the healer had attempted it a number of times, failed, and was getting impatient.Take comfort in that fact that they were probably rubbish, or with Titan, suffering from lag issues...

Duty finder definitely needs to have some penalties for dropping your group. Maybe an hour timeout from queuing again. The amount of times I've had it ready up only for someone to pull out is astounding, and has really slowed down my progress on certain dungeons. DoTA 2 has an abandonment system where you are placed in a low priority pool for a full day if you go AFK or forcefully disconnect, while we don't need something quite that severe, it's a good example of a working system.

I just reached level 50 yesterday and went into the first 8 man dungeon (Castrum Meridian, or something like that) and everyone was like 'Speedrun, k?' Everyone except me agrees. I say 'I've never done this before so I don't think I can.' One of the guys said, 'Just follow me and don't do anything. You can just watch so you know what to do next time. You can watch the cutscenes again in your Inn room'

Well, after voicing my opinion on rather watching them when they were actually relevant, I reluctantly agreed. The rest that followed was just chaos and I still can't tell you what the hell happened. People were running everywhere, barking orders. I have never been so confused during a run in my whole life. They were just running off and leaving me while the loading screen was up after skipping a cutscene. It was horrible, let me tell ya.

I was wondering to myself why they were even speedrunning it, because I hadn't noticed any treasure coffers or anything along the way. The closest thing I got to an answer for that was at the very end I got 100 Allagan Tomes of Philosophy, which I'm assuming was their incentive. After finishing it, with a sigh of relief, I went back to my Inn room to see what I had missed in way of story (which was hugely inappropraite and a bit confusing after the fact) and realized that I wouldn't have been nearly as confused about where to go or what to do had I watched them as intended.

This experience made me a little reserved to register for the one that immediately follows (no spoilers from me). In that one, I told myself I would not skip and would watch everything, no matter what. While a few people got a little fidgety, it was nothing major and we had a fairly smooth run with no wipes.

Long story, I know. Sorry. I know it would segregate the community a little more (only for a limited time though), but I feel they should almost have a check box for 'speedrun' or 'no speedrun', either or, because now, I'm actually dreading doing anything for the first (or even first few times) from here on out for fear I'm going to just get tossed into one of these groups again.