Forming Exploratory Voyages Group/Event

[Verrueckter]

3 words: Sehr and Mancakes.

I kid, I kid... or do I?

Guilty as charged.

[Haz]

So depending on how it works, I'd suggest a static 2 to 3 days a week when 24 man raids have full access to the ships, and then the other days of the week its straight first come first serve, or something. This is also contingent on not being able to just use the ishgard ports to access the content we want.

If you want to form a static to do these, then by all means do so. But please bear in mind that other groups will be going, too. We are not in the business of restricting our members access to content. We will not tell them "you can't go because Runestone's static wants to go."

Especially when the answer to "someone took an airship" is as simple as "wait 20 minutes."

[Haz]

We have a rule in this FC. Don't be a dick.

If you see a group of people trying to get a 24 man run going, you don't take the airship they need. Maybe, instead, you ask if you can join them. If they don't need it for another 20 minutes, then it's a complete non-issue because the airship will be back to pick them up on time.. This is a hell of a lot simpler than people are making it out to be.

Want a static? Form a Flight and go with them.. Don't want to be tied down by a schedule? Then just go whenever you want. There will be a million parties in the PF for this anyway.

[Gwen]

I don't see a 24 man pickup group happening on the fly just because.

What Artex is saying is that, when CT/ST/WoD were all relevant content, we used to have 24-man groups so often that we have a term for it: Drunk CT.

In fact, don't be surprised if you see some Drunk CT style events in November (hint fucking hint) as we enjoy new content.

And now - a throwback to those halcyon days.

[Justina]

What Artex is saying is that, when CT/ST/WoD were all relevant content, we used to have 24-man groups so often that we have a term for it: Drunk CT.

In fact, don't be surprised if you see some Drunk CT style events in November (hint fucking hint) as we enjoy new content.

We actually fielded multiple alliances on some rare occasions; it was pretty amazing.

[Crunchy]

i'll have alcohol ready to go. you guys just bring like 6 medica 2's and we got this.

[Verrueckter]

The live letter translation that Artex posted earlier does mention that only FC with lvl 50 ships can access the hard mode, link here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...XDRxjDt3YI/pub
However like Haz says the ships only have a 20 minute cooldown and the islands are instanced(also mentioned in the live letter translation) so you just have to get a group together and wait for a ship to become available. if you can't find enough ppl to fill go to the Party Finder, I'll bet there will be ppl in other FCs who don't have enough players to fill an Alliance, or who don't have the lvl 50 ships required to access Hard Mode.

[Artex]

I think the biggest issue isn't getting the 24 people together to do a run, its that if we have a ship out on something, and a group of 24 starts forming and then a group of 8 takes another ship out, we're down 1 ship. I have no question that we can get a group of 24 people rocked out cocked out and ready to go. But dem ships...

There's only a 20 minutes turn around for when you take out a ship. The odds of people continuously taking out ships to screw over a large group of 24 fc members is pretty slim to nonexistent.

[Neko]

I have prepared an emergency comfort package of things to do while the poor unlucky souls have to wait 20 minutes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blep/
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/
https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmycatnip

In all seriousness I've actually seen this thing IRL - Cruise ships are fat beastly things that don't always fit in ports, so when they visit small Caribbean towns they have do a thing called Tendering. They park a mile from shore and little boats come take the 3000 people back and forth as need be. The boats only fit 150-200 people, so yes.. as soon as we park EVERYONE wants to go to the island RIGHT MEOW.

But in all seriousness you can literally wander to the buffet, eat sushi and pizza or whatever for breakfast, waddle back down to the Tender line and it's like, gone. Just hop on a near-empty boat and g2g.

I think the only difference is that if you flip over things procured from the sky islands they probably don't all say made in China. Also maybe less drunk people passed out in the sun working on their skin cancer.

[Wallfulls]

3 words: Sehr and Mancakes.

I kid, I kid... or do I?

Very true I do go on some large tangents sometimes.