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Exactly this.
We’re not asking you to do our homework for us so we can get high marks for no effort.
We’re asking for the expletive rubric. You know, so we can attempt to do our best on the assignment.
With no guidance as to what the model progression looks like: how best to choose rooms (does location of the fight matter? Can ignored rooms regress? Can rooms progress without having been chosen? These are all basic questions I have no answer for), what rewards should be expected from what (even if! the scoring was something vague or somewhat random like base rarity * level/10 +/- 1 or 2 ; people would still hate that formula, but at least knowing it helps a player know what to expect and therefore do), whether I need to scout every time to see if there’s a difference in boss talents (whether boss talents even change scores—and if so, by how much), etc…
These aren’t big asks. They’re basic—foundational to how games work.
I don’t mean to sound rude. I’m sorry if I’m coming across that way. I don’t like that nowadays I feel like all my contributions to the forum are negative—my feedback never felt to me to be consistently on a downward trend before, and I don’t like that it now seems to.
tl;dr: I’m playing the event now that I already bought the sigils, but will budget my free gems better in the future (at this point not even the retroactive-deathknight armor I’ve been holding out for could convince me to spend, I’m afraid). And PS—as @TheIdleOne suggests, random scoring =/= dynamic gameplay (neither does the same 4-5 battles shifting where they are located on the map, btdubbs—this is less dynamic than the Explore teambuilder, not more).
A bit of levity to end:
A joke from Mike Birbiglia
On our final day on the trip, we got into an argument about essentially nothing. She noticed there was a basketball court at our hotel, and she said, ‘We should play.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, but not, like, a game.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Well, ’cause I’d win.’ And she said, ‘No, I think I would win.’ I go, ‘No. I know that I’d win, and I know that what I’m supposed to say is that… “The guy says, ‘I’ll win,’ the girl says, ‘I’ll win,’ “and the guy lets her win, and then she likes him more. But I just don’t have that in me.’ And Jenny goes, ‘You don’t have to let me win. Let’s go out and play.’ And so we went out and played basketball, and I just kicked her ass. I mean, it was just like… It was just like… 10 to 1, you know, 11 to 1. I mean, I was having a good day, but still, I was just destroying her. And at one point, she literally said, “I’ve never met someone who’s so obsessed with the score.” And I said, “the score is what makes it a game!”
For those stuck at home, a lot of great stuff from this guy is on Netflix, and you can read the transcript of My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend here:
https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2018/03/03/mike-birbiglia-my-girlfriends-boyfriend-2013-full-transcript/
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