As someone who has written for bosses before on staff, and someone who personally understands how both mentally and physically taxing it can be, I am still wholeheartedly against any mechanical reward in any shape or form whatsoever. Period.
If it's thanks or recognition you want - a mention in the podcast, a role on Discord as commemoration - I can get behind it. Special quests? Maybe? This idea for AP -> SP? Not a chance in hell. Writing for boss fights isn't meant to be rewarding. It's a volunteered service that you as a staff member give to the community as players.
While I'm on the topic of writing for boss fights, a suggestion: instead of piling it on one another, help each other? Like, genuinely help. In the short time that I wrote for Star-Crossed Lovers, I had been under the impression that I was going to be writing for a round or two tops. I had offered because the people who were running it initially had disappeared/weren't able to make rotations as frequently. I wanted to fill in for them. Not write for the boss. But that's what ended up happening.
And when I was on my last legs because of stress from school, tiredness from work, and the energy I used up on my rides to and from, I came out and gave up writing for the boss, because that's not what I signed up for. And what did we do? Dumped it on another single person. What happened? They stopped posting for it. The cycle repeats itself. And now we have an event from July active well into November.
Split up the work. There are people in staff who are much too lazy to be in staff (even though it's getting better and I love you all for it uwu). There's too much unwillingness to work together. And that's a big part of the problem. Too much secrecy, toxic pride, and entitlement. Help each other, for god's sake. And don't expect a reward for doing it.
Yes and only yes with the stipulation the rewards are vanity.
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As someone who has written for bosses before on staff, and someone who personally understands how both mentally and physically taxing it can be, I am still wholeheartedly against any mechanical reward in any shape or form whatsoever. Period.
If it's thanks or recognition you want - a mention in the podcast, a role on Discord as commemoration - I can get behind it. Special quests? Maybe? This idea for AP -> SP? Not a chance in hell. Writing for boss fights isn't meant to be rewarding. It's a volunteered service that you as a staff member give to the community as players.
While I'm on the topic of writing for boss fights, a suggestion: instead of piling it on one another, help each other? Like, genuinely help. In the short time that I wrote for Star-Crossed Lovers, I had been under the impression that I was going to be writing for a round or two tops. I had offered because the people who were running it initially had disappeared/weren't able to make rotations as frequently. I wanted to fill in for them. Not write for the boss. But that's what ended up happening.
And when I was on my last legs because of stress from school, tiredness from work, and the energy I used up on my rides to and from, I came out and gave up writing for the boss, because that's not what I signed up for. And what did we do? Dumped it on another single person. What happened? They stopped posting for it. The cycle repeats itself. And now we have an event from July active well into November.
Split up the work. There are people in staff who are much too lazy to be in staff (even though it's getting better and I love you all for it uwu). There's too much unwillingness to work together. And that's a big part of the problem. Too much secrecy, toxic pride, and entitlement. Help each other, for god's sake. And don't expect a reward for doing it.
Yes and only yes with the stipulation the rewards are vanity.