Contribution hotfix is destoying teamwork

[Killersnake]

With new contribution hotfix teams/groups have no incentive to work together. It's every man/woman for themselves because if you're fighting 1 enemy and I'm fighting another we no longer share the reward of the team effort. This makes contracts difficult and overtly time consuming--unnecessarily. I understand that we don't want freeloaders getting credit for sitting idle but there has to be middle ground. All or nothing never works... it makes teamwork pointless and kill/hit greed runs rampant. At the VERY least groups should share, but with small group sizes I think it would be better if linked friends/clans should share to make it fair.

Sadly, in its current state, it's no longer a MMO but more akin to a FFA, IMO. If another player goes down, why pick*them up--they're competitors now, not teammates...

This has to be a bug. There is no way Trion intended this result in a MMO. Regardless, please Trion reverse course and find middle ground on this ... Otherwise why have teams/groups/clans at all?

[Relthor]

I would sign this!

[TheLastDon]

With new contribution hotfix teams/groups have no incentive to work together. It's every man/woman for themselves because if you're fighting 1 enemy and I'm fighting another we no longer share the reward of the team effort. This makes contracts difficult and overtly time consuming--unnecessarily. I understand that we don't want freeloaders getting credit for sitting idle but there has to be middle ground. All or nothing never works... it makes teamwork pointless and kill/hit greed runs rampant. At the VERY least groups should share, but with small group sizes I think it would be better if linked friends/clans should share to make it fair.

Sadly, in its current state, it's no longer a MMO but more akin to a FFA, IMO. If another player goes down, why pick*them up--they're competitors now, not teammates...

This has to be a bug. There is no way Trion intended this result in a MMO. Regardless, please Trion reverse course and find middle ground on this ... Otherwise why have teams/groups/clans at all?

I wholeheartedly agree! Please change this. So what if these people are freeloading. I would suggest maybe if someone is hiding in a corner and idle in spawn point area then you disconnect them after being idle for so long.

[Spruence]

BUMP - Do away with this system

[ViciousTwist]

what was changed? did I miss something in the last few days?

[TheLastDon]

what was changed? did I miss something in the last few days?

Before if you were in an area with a friend doing a contract you got credit for a kill that your friend did. They did away with this. Now you have to be the one who does the kill to get credit for it. It makes it very annoying to complete these contracts that only have a few of the type of enemies that you need for the contract. Instead of fostering a social environment and working together with your friends Trion has now made it competitive and annoying. I guess this was to stop freeloaders from getting credit for other people's work.

[Killersnake]

Yeah they turned the game into strict contribution. If you don't hit or kill you get no credit for teammate efforts during instances...it's pretty much a FFA now. I was at diablo station earlier, people were racing to get hits on pods ( part of a contract today). They ignored other enemies in a mad dash get these contract kills. People went down and no one helped them...no point...while you're reviving the player, others are killing pods and then you have to do it all over again because you didn't get enough kills cause you were being a good teammate. It's not right for an MMO.

[Psamion]

Yep, it was quite silly at diablo station last night. Rather than actually killing something I ran around shooting one bullet into each of the pods to get the kills for the contract as fast as possible. If I had killed them normally like before it probably would have taken well over an hour to complete just that one contract.

[Killersnake]

Bump........

[EmptyFibers]

Pointless moaning, put in some effort and get a reward, makes sense to my rational and logical thought process.