In my flu-torn feverish daze, this wacky idea came to my head, so if you have major issues with it...well...I'll go off in the corner and cry myself to a mad rage before torching something (once again, just saying, I'm not really an arsonist)
SEG = Super Elite Guard = Mega Boss = in the case of this current event, Dark Airu
As most of you know, the second half of this event had a long stream of F2P-unfriendly features, but the three I would like to focus on in this thread are:
- SEG kills only go to the finder and finisher, and nobody in-between (and a DMM version player has stated that this is an abnormality in the Nutaku version alone, the DMM version didn't have this bug)
- An Event-Limited SR card required 300 (now 150) SEG kills to obtain (and man do I wanna f*** the pirate-edition Lala...well, sorta)
- It is at times, noticeably difficult for people capable of taking down a SEG to find one and noticeably common for SEGs to show up for players that aren't, almost gives the impression that higher EP actually reduces your chances of finding a SEG. (If you find them often and can take them down easy, feel free to ignore ALL of this)
(This part is incorrect now, disregard it if you prefer)
I digress, here's the idea:
I came across the idea of this when one of Hiiro's SEGs popped up and I accidentally pulled a KS on Mystica, to which I apologized as Mystica was on my friend list and offered to back off. Afterwards I figured that to avoid confusion (and wasted pudding from supporters that wouldn't get any credit), I could consider reserving a SEG I found and to share the benefit with someone else without having competitors fight over the kill, I'd weaken it myself (because I have the resources to do so) and offer it exclusively to the player I wanted. That way, I'd get SEG cred, that player would get SEG cred, no one burned extra focus prepping for a kill strike to be denied at the last moment, everyone aware that the SEG even existed wins and anyone who doesn't is none the knowing loser.
So I took up this system and tried it out with Mystica a few times, all of the outcomes positive (to Mystica at least, I had the occasional minor grievance of burning up to 5 puddings for a single SEG but my base SED's low, not much I can do about that). Unfortunately, I'm still of a high EP rank and maybe because of that or just terribly bad luck (or Nutaku has me on a microscope for my spending habits and figured they'd just screw with me for money), I still have hours involving back-to-back Tomoko. So ultimately, to get enough SEG kills to reach the Kanae quota, I need to find people who can spawn SEGs more often that I do and are willing to share them with me in such a way that doesn't open the boss to risk of Kill-Stealing (while the Kill-cred bug is active).
Now, the proposal:
Until the kill-cred bug gets fixed (and even after it's fixed, with minor changes to the system), we could consider setting up a system for heavy hitters looking to get all the SEG rewards to set up part-time contracts with lesser players who have observed a tremendously high SEG spawn frequency and want to get kill credit but don't have the power to do so.
It would simply go that the hitter/spawner with matching active times would friend each other, at least for the duration of the event and while they're both on, if the spawner stumbles across a SEG, he/she would offer it exclusively to the hitter to avoid bloodbath and KS. If neither of the two have the resources to kill the SEG, they could also consider including a 3rd Samaritan player to only weaken it (and I realize that a supporter-only role will prove an incredibly painful and thankless job but you may find someone up for it, who knows...hell, I'd be willing to do it once I get my own quota finished).
So that's more or less my idea...or if you feel like being a jerk to me, my last-resort proposal to finding more Dark Airu spawns to take out in light of the fact that at this rate I will not make the Kanae quota, take it as you will.
Questions, comments, concerns, thoughts for the future, you know what to do.
Back to raging at the Tomoko stuck to my ankles.