Post by Azherae on 2022-09-21 01:06:01
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My 'aim' here is to figure out where people think it happens. Because we all obviously have different experiences. One of the main arguments being offered against the specific suggestion (guild perk) is that it's a gateway concept and everyone will think it matters because of that.
Yet we have combat logs, which, regardless of any tracking or parsing being done, could have the same thing happen, as you said. If enough people like me 'are succeeding' and ask for them, then it might become 'accepted' that 'people ask for them'.
Most posters have so far implied that this is fine, but a few 'don't want information to even be available in the log'. Now, this could simply be 'because if it is in the log it can be fed into a parser', but they also make multiple arguments that seem specifically focused on 'Tracking During Combat' (which I would like to assume couldn't be achieved with the logs).
If a community forms where people 'take Combat Logs and upload them to a site', parsed or not, is the average player protected by just 'their unwillingness to do so' or their 'lack of understanding'? If 'Reading The Logs' is part of success, then those who seek success will want logs. I just want to know if Mag7 and the few (one?) who have given similar responses recently, want it to be that 'Reading The Logs' is not a meaningful part of success for Boss Level PvE in Ashes. Is this a requirement for the 'innocent player' to exist?