[iTrial forming groups etiquette?]

11 minutes ago, Oklahoman said:

Lastly, THANK YOU for running stuff! We need all the people we can to lead things so the community remains engaged with stuff to do.

 

Aww thank you 💖 You are one of the people that inspired me to start leading after being in your groups several times. Always had fun 🙂

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Thank you everyone for taking the time to give me input into this. Always appreciate and love this community's willingness to help each other 💖

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11 minutes ago, Shred Monkey said:

Just a theory, but maybe they intended to join the BAF and ended up on the MoM, and had to blame someone else.

Could be but if I recall correctly, they specifically said MoM and joined before the baf group started forming. So idk. It's possible though don't know why they just couldn't leave and join the baf. 

 

Might be another reason to use Echo more though. I used it for runs last night and outside of needing to help a few people get there, filled quick and worked fine.

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6 hours ago, Zect said:

The right that other people do have is to not join your team, or to prevent you from joining theirs. So, for example, if you chose to organize a baf in the ass end of the storm palace for some reason and people decide not to hike there, and nobody joins, that's just the logical consequence of your decision. If you form something while someone else is forming the same thing, and chose not to do the sensible thing and merge, and people decide to go with the more established leader's league over yours, that is also their right and you can deal with it.

You are right of course. No one owns any iTrial or any group content for that matter. 

 

The induvial who sparked this post, however, didn't leave and join the other group. He just.... left my group and started calling both of us rude and other negative comments for a couple of minutes because we were forming in the same area. Then he just dipped. It sounds like from what I am understanding that isn't a commonly held view about forming in the same area and he just may have some outdated/strange ideas about this sort of thing. Or was just having a bad day.🤷‍♀️

 

Mostly, this incident just had me curious if there were other things as a leader that I might not know so I can continue to lead groups better. Always want to learn and get better. 

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2 hours ago, Ironblade said:

If anyone ignored etiquette at all in your situation, it was the person who started recruiting WHILE YOU WERE ALREADY RECRUITING.  They were rude and should have waited.

It's entirely possible they had just gotten back from their previous baf run. I know people will sometimes run them back to back to back to back. I generally try to wait for a bit to see if anyone else is running before I start forming and I think did then too but idk. I've slept since then.

 

I don't see an issue but I understand how it could like jerk move to start forming in the middle someone else. I just think there is enough room on the server to have two groups forming at once, especially two completely iTrials.

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So I've recently started leading different iTrials. It's been great! Have had lots of fun, met new people, learned some new things, helped people get badges and other rewards, and has generally been going well. 

However, one issue came up last night when I was forming an MoM group. About halfway through filling, a baf group started forming in Ouro along with me. Now I haven't seen any issues with two iTrial groups going and filling in Ouro in the past (especially forming two different ones). I try to avoid it when I can but it happens. 

I didn't have an issue with it, but someone from my MoM group quit, then went on about how "shame on us for both for forming in the same area." (paraphrasing) and other such negativity towards the two groups. Both groups did fill and after MoM, I moved the other runs I did that night (Keyes and Magi) to Echo Plaza like the induvial who complained said one of us should have done.

 

But I am curious, is not forming groups in the same area more or less proper iTrial etiquette? If so, is there any other unspoken iTrial etiquette you think someone leading/forming should know?

Thank you all ❤️

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15 hours ago, JasperStone said:

Do butt capes count 

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asking for a friend

Some exceptions can be made I suppose....

[The moment a character goes to the "It" list.]

I think for me, I have to sit with a character that I've made after a while and decided do I really like this concept, or was it just a one-off "This might be cool" thing? If I think I do, then I start trying to put the backstory I thought into words for a bio. If I struggle to put it into words, then I re-evaluate if I actually like it.

 Not a hard or fast rule or anything like that, just something I think about.

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Guys hear me out.....😜