Pebble here, our dom team has pretty strongly hinted they’re uninterested in battling due to the stress it placed on them last time. It sounds like they’re not even entertaining the question at the moment.
Personally I’m indifferent, I’m someone who always makes it to the leaderboard and I would go hard regardless of whether or not there was a battle lol. That might be why there’s not much of a push to battle in Earth? I don’t want to leak IFR numbers or anything but we have some individuals who exalt more every push (even profit pushes) than some OOFRs get with big chase prizes. It doesn’t make a difference to them whether or not there’s a battle going on, they’ll go hard anyway, so why add the extra stress to the dom team? If that makes sense.
NAYRT Not to sound insensitive, but I'm just genuinely curious... how does Earth prevent burnout with such constant grinding?
My assumption has always been that it's like an unofficial "rotation" based on people's energy levels-- where there's enough people going super hard all the time that a few of them taking breaks and sitting back for a while will fill in with the people previously resting. But I don't know how much water that assumption actually holds.
I guess that is true in a way, it’s usually the same 10 people cycling through the leaderboard, although there are 2-3 people who claim the top spots more often than not. But that’s very much an individual question than an Earth question. Personally, I feel that Earth doesn’t ask that much of me. We officially push like 5 times a year? That’s only 5 weeks out of 52 that I’m spending every waking moment on FR. Plenty of downtime in between to catch a break.
Interesting, thanks for the insight! I’m in coli so infrequently these days that I can’t imagine going that hard all the time, but it clearly works out for some folks!
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Re: Dom Thread
(Anonymous) 2024-06-25 04:07 am (UTC)(link)Personally I’m indifferent, I’m someone who always makes it to the leaderboard and I would go hard regardless of whether or not there was a battle lol. That might be why there’s not much of a push to battle in Earth? I don’t want to leak IFR numbers or anything but we have some individuals who exalt more every push (even profit pushes) than some OOFRs get with big chase prizes. It doesn’t make a difference to them whether or not there’s a battle going on, they’ll go hard anyway, so why add the extra stress to the dom team? If that makes sense.
Re: Dom Thread
(Anonymous) 2024-06-25 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)Not to sound insensitive, but I'm just genuinely curious... how does Earth prevent burnout with such constant grinding?
My assumption has always been that it's like an unofficial "rotation" based on people's energy levels-- where there's enough people going super hard all the time that a few of them taking breaks and sitting back for a while will fill in with the people previously resting. But I don't know how much water that assumption actually holds.
Re: Dom Thread
(Anonymous) 2024-06-25 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)I guess that is true in a way, it’s usually the same 10 people cycling through the leaderboard, although there are 2-3 people who claim the top spots more often than not. But that’s very much an individual question than an Earth question. Personally, I feel that Earth doesn’t ask that much of me. We officially push like 5 times a year? That’s only 5 weeks out of 52 that I’m spending every waking moment on FR. Plenty of downtime in between to catch a break.
Re: Dom Thread
(Anonymous) 2024-06-25 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)Interesting, thanks for the insight! I’m in coli so infrequently these days that I can’t imagine going that hard all the time, but it clearly works out for some folks!