Milestones are hard. Requests are scary. Explaining, putting all your thoughts, conclusions and all the little developments you see in your character, but are sure your graders won't see is worse than ...uhh something terrible.
Farm GP by writing, yes.
Sure it can be intimidating, but that's no reason not to do it. If people didn't do things that intimidated them they'd all be living at home afraid to step outside. You'd have to be a weird bastard to enjoy getting told something that you wrote is bad or something you think you deserve like prestige is something you aren't up to the standards of yet, but how are you ever going to achieve the things you want to achieve without constructive feedback? I've been told some things about my work (which is mid-card for life) that I don't like, but I'd be worse than I already am without that advice. Better to take it on the chin and grow. Alternatively, how will you know if a thing you're doing is actually good from an outside perspective without some degree of impartial confirmation?
When I was the Boss Man, one of my biggest concerns was always world balance.
It teeters upon the ability of players to advanced smoothly and consistently. The results of this update are smaller Milestones and a wider range of GP to be earned through them. This really contributes to a healthy, constantly progressing world.
So if Staff still has any of that mindset of mine, I can speak for them when I say: Requests are the best parts of the job. Milestones. Masteries. Advancement. I love nothing more than watching a character actually move past their 50 Reiatsu origins. So go after them. Do them frequently. Don't ever stop.
It's the whole point, really.
Does this mean I should go ask for 4000 GP and 6 masteries? XD
When I was the Boss Man, one of my biggest concerns was always world balance.
It teeters upon the ability of players to advanced smoothly and consistently. The results of this update are smaller Milestones and a wider range of GP to be earned through them. This really contributes to a healthy, constantly progressing world.
So if Staff still has any of that mindset of mine, I can speak for them when I say: Requests are the best parts of the job. Milestones. Masteries. Advancement. I love nothing more than watching a character actually move past their 50 Reiatsu origins. So go after them. Do them frequently. Don't ever stop.
It's the whole point, really.
Does this mean I should go ask for 4000 GP and 6 masteries? XD
Okay, let's play this game.
What if you did, Kirito?
What would happen?
I would probably laugh at you, a little bit, for your poor judgment. Tokiyo would probably give you only a fraction of that when it came time to grade.
...What's so bad about that? At least you tried, and now? You can try again, probably better armed to succeed next time. So go ahead and ask for that 4,000 extra Base GP and six masteries. Worst you'll get is "no," and chances are you'll end up a little further ahead than you are now anyway.
When I was the Boss Man, one of my biggest concerns was always world balance.
It teeters upon the ability of players to advanced smoothly and consistently. The results of this update are smaller Milestones and a wider range of GP to be earned through them. This really contributes to a healthy, constantly progressing world.
So if Staff still has any of that mindset of mine, I can speak for them when I say: Requests are the best parts of the job. Milestones. Masteries. Advancement. I love nothing more than watching a character actually move past their 50 Reiatsu origins. So go after them. Do them frequently. Don't ever stop.
It's the whole point, really.
Does this mean I should go ask for 4000 GP and 6 masteries? XD
Does this mean I should go ask for 4000 GP and 6 masteries? XD
Okay, let's play this game.
What if you did, Kirito?
What would happen?
I would probably laugh at you, a little bit, for your poor judgment. Tokiyo would probably give you only a fraction of that when it came time to grade.
...What's so bad about that? At least you tried, and now? You can try again, probably better armed to succeed next time. So go ahead and ask for that 4,000 extra Base GP and six masteries. Worst you'll get is "no," and chances are you'll end up a little further ahead than you are now anyway.
Life favors the bold.
You sound exactly like how Officer's in the Air Force Describe MTI's. I think it would be funny if a staffer just flipped shit like:
WHAT IS THIS RPER? ARE YOU SERIOUS? DO YOU EVEN RP HERE? DID YOU THINK THIS WAS SOME KIND OF A JOKE? BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT YOUR GOD LIKE RP DESERVED SO MUCH I HAD TO COME DOWN HERE AND WASTE MY TIME READING YOUR CRAP? THIS IS A PISS POOR EXAMPLE OF A MASTERY AND YOUR'E TAKING ADVANTAGE OF MY GOOD WILL? TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS RP MEANS TO PEOPLE? PEOPLE HAVE SPENT THEIR LIVES HERE, THEY SPEND THEIR FREE TIME AND GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND BECOME LIKE A FAMILY AND YOU'RE HERE SHITTING ON THE STAFF'S FREE TIME? HAVE SOME FREAKIN' INTEGRITY AND USE YOUR FREAKING COMMON SENSE OR I CAN MAKE YOU GO AWAY. GIVE ME YOUR 341!
So, as someone who hated/is still afraid of milestones and requesting things I have a couple of thoughts.
1.) As others are saying, ask for something, if you get a no, you get a no with feedback. That's the only way to know what to do better, and it's vital to improving all aspects of what you do on BG. 2.) If you feel like you don't have a story, it's okay. Write it up anyway, write up the changes and the small things, the little shifts, and at the end sometimes I get surprised by how much things flowed together and went in a direction I hadn't seen before. That's why when I write up milestones, I summarize my threads first, then go back and write the larger piece, because often even if I think I know what happened that helps me see all the little parts and the cohesion I wasn't aware of in the first place.
Why does that matter? It matters not just for the GP you get, but because it helps you writing after that milestone. You've just gone back and reviewed what you've been doing for the past few months or so. You looked at threads you may have written a while back that still impact your character now. You see your character in a bigger picture, instead of the snapshots we tend to immerse ourselves in by threading.
For me that's been really helpful. Even when I get told, uh, that's kinda ambitious, kiddo, why don't you go with this and work on a. , etc.
Think we're fine in getting GP but I have my reasons in disliking doing extra work for myself and staff (you all do a great job) but if i want to write a story into a condense thing I'd make an entire solo about Frey's life and I'd be comfortable just doing that.
Perhaps I'm not making sense and not trying to be snarky I just really hate having to write up blocks of text to get anywhere if I want to tier up, so I'm fine keeping Frey with no power. I just don't find it fun and I've done these kind of things before, it gets exhausting after awhile.
Anyway I don't want to clutter up this space with my rambling so I'll be quiet.
I'm happy things are easier in the milestone department, I just can't take it upon myself to do it anymore.
I don't know about you Frey, but when I apply for Adi's milestone after his return, it's going to be short as fuck lol They said they'll ask us questions during these, any extra info you want, gleam it then lol
Milestones are hard. Requests are scary. Explaining, putting all your thoughts, conclusions and all the little developments you see in your character, but are sure your graders won't see is worse than ...uhh something terrible.
Farm GP by writing, yes.
This.
There's also some nuances that appear in character that I know, and maybe someone like Adi knows, but really I'm very much a "Death by a thousand cuts" sort of person and a lot of the time I'm worried that just won't appear or inversely making the change to start to cast Eaon into a more Villainous Role isn't actually a stretch, Eaon wasn't exactly a nice person before, but for me it feels almost rushed even though I'm taking my time with it, building up here and there, doing things he only knows to do because Eaon worked with Adi in the past, and developing a base for it, but it still feels like a HARD right turn when in reality its not and I feel like that lessens the writing and its going to be judged more critically as a result and increase the likelihood of a denial which in turn would make me more nervous/anxious to put in another request, especially if the critique I got in my last request doesn't line up with the vision I have for my character which could in turn make me feel stuck.
Personally, now would be a great time for Eaon to Milestone, since you just took the leap to be something more defined and against the grain. Grew personality wise, character changed, and he's cut some fat and cutting more; I'd say go for it, it'd make sense, but that's just me.
There's also some nuances that appear in character that I know, and maybe someone like Adi knows, but really I'm very much a "Death by a thousand cuts" sort of person and a lot of the time I'm worried that just won't appear or inversely making the change to start to cast Eaon into a more Villainous Role isn't actually a stretch, Eaon wasn't exactly a nice person before, but for me it feels almost rushed even though I'm taking my time with it, building up here and there, doing things he only knows to do because Eaon worked with Adi in the past, and developing a base for it, but it still feels like a HARD right turn when in reality its not and I feel like that lessens the writing and its going to be judged more critically as a result and increase the likelihood of a denial which in turn would make me more nervous/anxious to put in another request, especially if the critique I got in my last request doesn't line up with the vision I have for my character which could in turn make me feel stuck.
Personally, now would be a great time for Eaon to Milestone, since you just took the leap to be something more defined and against the grain. Grew personality wise, character changed, and he's cut some fat and cutting more; I'd say go for it, it'd make sense, but that's just me.
I'd actually considered it but I didn't want it to interfere with some potentially bigger claims that may be being made in the next month or two, but I might as well try for it and get it out of the way.
Your graded on where your story got you to. You can post a 1500 gp milestone, or three 500 GP ones with the same set of threads, depending on how the arc is
But if you want to really get in Tokiyo's good graces, rumor has it that he's very fond of 50+ thread Milestones.
A rumor perpetrated by a man who was so thoroughly embarrassed by how hard I cucked him (read as: Stole Rania) that he literally left our dimension in shame.
Post by Shun Minamoto on Dec 6, 2016 19:26:42 GMT -5
Oh please
I saw it so far in advanced that I told her it would happen a year before Rania was even on your radar. The only reason part two of my prediction, her being your Lieutenant, didn't happen, was because she left before she could post and accept the position.
And his relationship with her might have helped save the entire Seireitei!
4D Chess. You'd think Consequence would understand this better.