No problem, and thank you for clarifying your own comment. We might have made some mis-connections in reading it.
We've had a lot of discussion about Somarium's AC requirements so I won't exhaust it again. However, I will posit this. What exactly makes Somarium's AC seem so hard to some? Immediate answer: getting the tags. If a player is not tagging or posting much in general, then there's not much we can do nor is there anything more to discuss. Somarium just may not have the right pace. But if it's because "I can't get tags" then having a lower requirement seems like it would be a good fix.
But it's not.
Instead go further, why are you not getting tags? You're doing what you can, but you can only do so much on your own. If you're not getting tags back, then isn't the problem not with the the actual requirements but the lack of tagbacks?
Thus, how would reducing the requirements address that issue? It would help those who were unfortunate victims of dropped threads better make it, sure, but that's a little backwards. That would instead actually be saying "We know people won't tag back or will drop threads, so we'll ask for lower requirements because we know that's the extent of the activity there will be." That isn't facing the issue at all—in fact it would more or less promote it.
And that's why when we have people come to us about the requirements, you have to really look at the reasons why the requirements seem hard to achieve. Other than players just not having time, it's threads being dropped. This latter reason is something that we've noticed has been a problem and, though it's heavy handed, recent AC changes have removed past known flakers and last-minute players that helped perpetuate the problem.
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We've had a lot of discussion about Somarium's AC requirements so I won't exhaust it again. However, I will posit this. What exactly makes Somarium's AC seem so hard to some? Immediate answer: getting the tags. If a player is not tagging or posting much in general, then there's not much we can do nor is there anything more to discuss. Somarium just may not have the right pace. But if it's because "I can't get tags" then having a lower requirement seems like it would be a good fix.
But it's not.
Instead go further, why are you not getting tags? You're doing what you can, but you can only do so much on your own. If you're not getting tags back, then isn't the problem not with the the actual requirements but the lack of tagbacks?
Thus, how would reducing the requirements address that issue? It would help those who were unfortunate victims of dropped threads better make it, sure, but that's a little backwards. That would instead actually be saying "We know people won't tag back or will drop threads, so we'll ask for lower requirements because we know that's the extent of the activity there will be." That isn't facing the issue at all—in fact it would more or less promote it.
And that's why when we have people come to us about the requirements, you have to really look at the reasons why the requirements seem hard to achieve. Other than players just not having time, it's threads being dropped. This latter reason is something that we've noticed has been a problem and, though it's heavy handed, recent AC changes have removed past known flakers and last-minute players that helped perpetuate the problem.