Every flight is going to have people that don't like the way the current leads are running dom. It is impossible to please everyone and getting competent reliable volunteers is harder than it seems. Let's be real. Dom is mostly broken and no one is battling. The Ice v Water battle is the first one in how long??
If you want to base flights to avoid on dom drama posted here, then you'd pretty much have to list them all. What about the droplets that called the people who were disappointed the Water/Wind push was cooperative instead of a conquest "vultures"? How many times has someone brought up Earth farting a couple of exalts and taking dom from a flight not offering a PB? Several dom teams are a volunteer or two away from dysfunction at any given point. All it takes is someone who doesn't mesh with the team and likes to argue to fuck things up. Or someone who is volunteering for the wrong reasons, whether it's ego, status, control issues, or whatever.
I wouldn't personally want to switch to Fire right now, but making a list of flights to avoid is obnoxious.
There's a difference between not liking how dom leads do things, and recognizing and hating that everything about the way dom is done in the flight, is disorganized with zero to little communication between the leads/team and the flight, the leads/team themselves, etc. Maybe one or two of the leads frequently go incommunicado for long periods of time, then pop back in to say how sorry they are, life got away from them, etc. Maybe, at the same time as this, the leads are also very resistant to or hesitant to change. It could be any number of things really. To my mind that stuff is a greater concern than the not liking how dom leads do things. Granted it's all of a kind really but to me the concern is more about things as a whole rather than how individual leads do things. I know i for one would love to know which flights have more open and more frequent communication and ...for lack of a better way to say it, can be effing counted on to do what they initially set out to do, and to do things regularly. I don't want to be in a flight where i am constantly worrying about if x program is actually going to be running for our push on sunday, on a friday, because nobody has bothered to communicate this or ping for people!
You can have a dom team that is great at communication and is still shit behind the scenes. You can also have a dom team that seems to be resistant to change, but just knows the result already of said change and how it won't work for their flight. The point I was trying to make is that it's completely subjective. You are going to find people in each flight who absolutely hate how their dom team handles everything. If we were to make a list of flights to avoid based on someone hating everything about the way their flight handles dom, you'd still have to put every flight on the list.
I get what you are saying. It is nice to know not to switch to a flight where the team is completely unreliable. I just think it's going to be difficult to narrow down which flights are wholly deserving of the "avoid" label.
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Re: Flights to avoid
(Anonymous) 2023-09-06 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)If you want to base flights to avoid on dom drama posted here, then you'd pretty much have to list them all. What about the droplets that called the people who were disappointed the Water/Wind push was cooperative instead of a conquest "vultures"? How many times has someone brought up Earth farting a couple of exalts and taking dom from a flight not offering a PB? Several dom teams are a volunteer or two away from dysfunction at any given point. All it takes is someone who doesn't mesh with the team and likes to argue to fuck things up. Or someone who is volunteering for the wrong reasons, whether it's ego, status, control issues, or whatever.
I wouldn't personally want to switch to Fire right now, but making a list of flights to avoid is obnoxious.
Re: Flights to avoid
(Anonymous) 2023-09-06 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)There's a difference between not liking how dom leads do things, and recognizing and hating that everything about the way dom is done in the flight, is disorganized with zero to little communication between the leads/team and the flight, the leads/team themselves, etc. Maybe one or two of the leads frequently go incommunicado for long periods of time, then pop back in to say how sorry they are, life got away from them, etc. Maybe, at the same time as this, the leads are also very resistant to or hesitant to change. It could be any number of things really. To my mind that stuff is a greater concern than the not liking how dom leads do things. Granted it's all of a kind really but to me the concern is more about things as a whole rather than how individual leads do things. I know i for one would love to know which flights have more open and more frequent communication and ...for lack of a better way to say it, can be effing counted on to do what they initially set out to do, and to do things regularly. I don't want to be in a flight where i am constantly worrying about if x program is actually going to be running for our push on sunday, on a friday, because nobody has bothered to communicate this or ping for people!
Re: Flights to avoid
(Anonymous) 2023-09-06 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)I get what you are saying. It is nice to know not to switch to a flight where the team is completely unreliable. I just think it's going to be difficult to narrow down which flights are wholly deserving of the "avoid" label.
Re: Flights to avoid
(Anonymous) 2023-09-07 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)WvI is the first battle in... a year? 2022 had NvP and LvW? Battles are expensive obviously theyre not gonna happen monthly