Panic Farm?
Can we all please agree that after the first time a character drops (read - Released) from that point on there is no such thing as an induced "Panic Farm"? I'm so sick of people constantly saying tha...
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"Eddiemundie;c-1761848" wrote:"JohnAran;c-1760516" wrote:"Kyno;c-1760488" wrote:"JohnAran;c-1760449" wrote:"Kyno;c-1760264" wrote:
IMO, a panic farm is when you dont know what is going to be needed until shortly before the event.
If the toon has been around a while, it's hard to call it a panic farm. If the characters are known, but the release time is not, it's still not really a panic farm. You know exactly what to focus on, not having time or resources to do so, is not really in the devs control. New players start all the time, they cant hold a release to make sure everyone gets them the second time around.
But that's just me.
But panic farming has nothing to do with devs. It’s a personal experience. When you find yourself in a position where you need to farm a lot of shards in a short time to get what you want, you are in panic farm mode.
The devs, the reasons you got there, whereas the requirements are known or not, have been in the game for a long time or not, all of this is 100% irrelevant to the state of affairs : you need a lot of shards, and it’s going to be a race against the clock.
If you need shards in a short amount of time, and you choose to panic that doesnt mean it is a panic farm, it means you are panicing because you were not ready. If you are panicing because you had no idea what to set up for and now have something thrown into your face that is a panic farm. It is a subtle difference but it is a difference IMO.
IMO, panic farm is a gaming practice that involves limited information until there is limited time. Anything else is just a personal issue due to when you started playing, or your income of resources that help you progress. Once the details are out there, and an event has passed for the first time, the panic is over, the planning begins.
Ok well personally i’m really not interested in nitpicking and playing around with words just for the sake of it so i’ll just disagree with op (and you) and have no problem with people talking about panic farming.
I don’t see how pushing for revan now in panic mode after just getting jtr is less of a panic farm than pushing for him the first time around for those who didn’t have anything better to do. It’s the exact same thing that’s happening (counting days, crystals, making guesses and projections...), and the exact same feeling for the people finding themselves in the situation. That’s just my opinion of course.
Just because there is organized panic farming every power creep’s release does not mean it’s the only true panic farming.
Anything after the first release is not a panic farm. My absolutely 100% f2p ex-guildmate is ready for revan event. Sure, he gave up farming BH (chewie) for that, but as f2p u have to make choices.
Further, it was predicted that revan would be back in Jan-Mar. if they threw revan back early jan then sure, might still be considered a panic farm for f2p since it would be hardly 3 months since first release. But no, it’s end jan - u had almost 4 mths to do it.
As i said in my previous post to kyno i personally think everything you said is completely irrelevant to the fact that it’s a panic farm and explained further why. You seem to imply that you can’t panic in a situation if it’s your own choice that lead you there in the first place. I very strongly disagree with that. In fact i think it doesn’t make any sense.
