Anyway if you're going to be segregating by laff and suit, I'm going to have to make yet another decision about participating, which would suck.
Actually, the idea would be desegration. To segregate would be to keep the high laffers/strong suits off the elevator when low laffs/weak suits were to board. This is the opposite, as it would be an attempt to ensure that those with high suits/laff are on with those who aren't, thus increasing the chances of success for those low laffs/suits.
My idea would be to say those who are under 60 laff or aren't minglers/hollywoods to line up on the right when going to the elevator, with everyone else lining up on the left. Then the first 4 in line on each side would board the elevator and go. If there is a noticeably larger number of left loaders than right, then have 6 from left and 2 from right (which is even better). The whole idea is that everyone who goes in will come out. What happened was unfortunate and I will say for this group and event, is a bit surprising because oh how rare it is. But even with the best of setups, it can happen.
There's a cluster who sets themselves aside to conveniently run together instead of evenly dispersing among the group. I would think a touch of their ilk in every load would certainly help matters. If we're a group together and there's no special milestone run, we should intermingle if WE are Stratics. I've always believed if 6-8 people run together all the time anyway, they dont need anyone else to up and do one.
I agree with you in a sense and we'll just call it as we see it (Wolfie). It is nice that his 6 or so are not there in the beginning so stragglers get a chance to go in. I ALWAYS wait til the last load (not including Wolfie's) because I'd rather be the one that doesn't get to go if that's how it ends up. That said, we are NOT CCG, we ARE Stratics, like you said. Many of us have our friends we'd rather go with, or are only there because of, or whatever. Many of us don't even read Toontown Stratics. And occasionally I'll ask Wolfie for a volunteer from his group to even things out, and they comply without a problem. Every so often I get a little selfish, like I did in the CJ last night. Someone I normally don't get to play with is there and I keep them for myself. But I do try to remember who I've run with lately and who I haven't to mix things up, I figure if I do that for myself then I'm probably mixing everyone else up too.
I actually need to try to break my little group up some to have fewer players with me so that we have 4 plus any leftover players. I might get the 2 monkeys to cram in with the others (one is an sf on another toon of hers), then a couple of friends (who are friends with each other) to try to load near the end so they are on the same run together but at the same time they can see if there will be an uneven load and can try to balance it out some. Overall idea, to make sure that everyone gets a chance to run.
I only remember one time (at least recently) that you asked me for a volunteer, at the CJ. I actually picked and asked someone (Lady Morrigan on here). Nothing against her nor thinking she's better than any of my other friends, but simply because I knew she was a member here so she was more likely to recognize a few others and still feel she was among friends. Again though, need to try to mix things up some, because I feel like it creates a little alienation when we're not all mixing it up a little each week.
Last night, I was 20 short on cogbucks and by the time I had them, everyone had already gone. That was the first time that I know of that 'my group' went without me, and I think that was a good thing because it's an example of what I would like to do - to get my friends to mix in with the others some so that new friends are made and it remains fun for everyone. That and its harder to invite new people along to help build the group if my friends only go with me.
Oh heres something else: 3 sfs Me and two other almost maxed toons went to do a front 3. And a 45 laff rabbit with lv 4 sound throw and squirt joined us. We didnt care because we were planning to do the run by ourselves anyhow. We do fine untill we get to a row of 3 big cheeses lv 11 and a corporate raider V2.0 lv 10 or 11(i forgot) We used lure so we could Tu ppl who lost 20 laff for failing the maze run. The rabbit pulls out an aooogah. "dont use sound on lured cogs" "dont use sound on lured cogs" but there was no reply so everyone took about 21 damage and the rabbit took about 38. We lured agaon an you'd think he learned his lesson! So we spent an extra turn of gags and wasted time. So now we have to be picky about that. And my sfs didnt want a middle 6 or a back nine.
You're lucky actually. When you get to the golfing game/puzzle, you didn't have to worry about your a** exploding with gags. I have this bad habit of forgetting to de-gag before going in, so I end up with loads of gags that I either never use or that fill me up so I can't get higher gags for other tracks.
I'm not saying this applies to you, but for the most part, when I see someone who is 100+ laff and hasn't maxed (or come close to maxing) their gags, I generally wonder if they truly know how to play. Don't get me wrong, I won't refuse to go on a run with someone if they have a gag track that isn't maxed, but there are some people who will refuse to run with you for it because they may feel that you aren't a quality player because of not maxing your gags. Add in the fact that one of those tracks is toonup, and they might think that you don't like to give toonups on people and may be reluctant to go with you. Just as a mention but also, when I see someone who is lureless, I tend to wonder if they aren't trying to be selfish, for having trap and expecting people to lure it for them, but not being able to return the favor.
I dont know, I have been playing my Stubby, 107 laff, for several months. She is trapless and not maxed in lure or drop. In fact, I just got my pianos a few weeks ago with the help of some awesome players here. I don't have my goggles yet, but I just dont think about using lure, unless I am asked or someone throws a trap. I think I still need just over 1000 pts, but I don't think I am selfish, and I think I am a decent player, just slower at getting those two maxed. I hope I am not being sterotyped because I choose to take my time maxing those gags.
I was saying that those who are lureless (ie, have all other gag tracks) as possibly being selfish. It's like this, if someone is lureless, then they can toss out a trap to be lured, but they can't lure if someone else tosses out a trap. If you need trap points and happen to go on a bullion run with 3 people who are lureless and they toss out trap constantly, leaving you to lure each time, then you'll get that feeling. Not saying that they
are selfish, only that it can come off that way.
Also, thank you to Trish and Susan for offering a revenge run as soon as you got done with CJ. As soon as I went sad, I had people whispering to me (Chanty and the teamspeak crew) offering for a revenge run. Even before I got into CFO, they had a group waiting for Steveo, his wife, and I. With school out now, I will be more available for things in the evening, so if you two need help with anything please let me know.
After I missed out on the CFO run (and I had to keep reassuring Trish that I was like "Oh well, it happens" and not flipping out about it), she mentioned about the revenge run. I would have been there too, because I love helping someone get a win when they've had a loss or worse, multiple losses.
