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More than one Dom Team?

[(Anonymous)]

With the recent drama with and around Fire Flights Dom team and efforts (or lack thereof), what's peoples thoughts on having more than one Dom Team in a Flight?

I've heard it's been done before but don't personally have any details on it.

Re: More than one Dom Team?

[(Anonymous)]

i feel fairly mixed. on one hand it could provide nice in-flight competition for fundraising and event participation, but would likely be confusing for new/casual players and inherently splits funds and efforts. for big events like festivals and pushes, both dom teams need to be 100% in sync for things like bank withdrawals and blitzes.

Re: More than one Dom Team?

[(Anonymous)]

It would kill any actual dom in that flight by splitting the limited efforts into two, not to mention would likely turn off any player actually joining - like, imagine team 1 having a conquest while team 2... sits? Most flights, excluding Earth, would never win then.

I've heard of multiple people (heck, I know of two instances in my own) making alternative teams but they never lasted long or actually took off.

Re: More than one Dom Team?

[(Anonymous)]

SA
I assumed you asked about dom team as a whole 100+ group, not smaller groups still under one management and bank.

Re: More than one Dom Team?

[(Anonymous)]

honestly it doesn't work, no matter how you parse it you're splitting the flight efforts which is ultimately ineffective. plus, its really really hard to get folks to trust in the newer team because they're gonna want to put their faith in the oldies who have been running things forever and basically know what they're doing.

I know people try it occasionally, like arcane after the Celestial Senate thing years ago, but it never seems to work

Re: More than one Dom Team?

[(Anonymous)]

I've always been morbidly curious about how such a thing would play out. Given how officially player-run holiday events are treated (being reported on in Dom Watch as well as, if I recall correctly, staff-posted wrapups), despite there being nothing similarly official granting the dom team authority (or even recognizing the existence of a 'dom team' as an entity), the fact that there's never (in my recollection) been a situation where multiple full-fledged teams were warring over whose event listing was the 'real' one seems like very lucky happenstance.

Re: More than one Dom Team?

[(Anonymous)]

i think a lot of this has to do with the effort required to truly "lead" these kinds of things, and the reputation and trust that's associated with them. some joe schmoe saying "hey give me some fundraising money, i wanna be a dom lead" will probably get ignored. someone who's been active in the community for years with a good reputation/history of running events effectively might get a different response from the IF and OOF community.

Re: More than one Dom Team?

[(Anonymous)]

this, it's a LOT of effort. running the raffle bank itself is almost a part time job. there's a lot of logistics and record keeping and other mundane tasks required to be a competent dom team - people who do it, do it for the love of the game.