Random vs Banked TT

Anna_Sweg - Harshlands
Anna_Sweg - Harshlands Posts: 11 Arc User
edited October 2010 in Dawnglory (EU)
I am a strong proponent of random drops in TT. It enables far less theft has far less chance of drama coming after the run and saves time. It gives every indivual a shot at any boss they were alive when the loot is picked up(generally every indivual should be alive), allows for greater freedom for people to come and go, and if people want to trade mats gives them their own personal responsiblity to do so. Some runs you get a lot more some runs you get less if you want people to keep running with you, you balance the good runs with the people your running with. You also save all the time at the end of runs redistrubuting mats which often takes as long as the runs themselves take.
My opinion if you trust a bank that's your own trust and you should be happy with anything you get out of it. People generally want the same mats as well and this gets rid of drama saying I did a run with that person and didnt get any mats(unless it was a favorable run and often people are willing to share more on good runs.) Respect your party and you will always be able to find one. Well those are my thoughts vs the field of bankers, and how to have less drama in game. Running this way with a mild charge for subs makes sense.
Illistrative note one 3-1 run I ran only 1 gba mat dropped for the entire run, no other mats. How do you split one GBA amongst 4-6 players, or 2?
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  • Acrelar - Harshlands
    Acrelar - Harshlands Posts: 305 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    That is really interesting, I'm glad you made a thread about this on the officials, let's talk more.
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  • Hippie - Harshlands
    Hippie - Harshlands Posts: 515 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    do u really think that anyone is going to read that?
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  • Angel - Harshlands
    Angel - Harshlands Posts: 158 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    For years I have lived happily in ignorance of the upheaval that is taking place all around me. Amidst all the chaos of wars being fought for no apparent reason other than greed and provocation, administrators in power trying to dictate or discriminate against people for their faith or lack thereof, recessions, inflations, bubbles, I was an island just staying happily afloat in deliberate naivetmy only exception was listening every once in a while to my brother's show, The Young Turks, on the internet but that was for pure entertainment. The reason for my self-imposed illiteracy was because I felt powerless and insignificant in face of all that was happening in the world; although this was my lifelong belief, the 'second Bush' era, I believe, cemented the fact of ancould do whatever pleased them or the interests they were supporting without being held accountable. The world would keep on turning, young people dying for no logical, humane reasons, some people going bankrupt while others' endowments swelled to incomprehensible proportions whether I took notice or not.. knew back in 2007 when I began working for a show called The Young Turks, it would stir the pot with the Armenian community. Even though the show itself has nothing to do with Turks, or Armenians, or anything even close to that nature, people would misunderstand and explode with fury. Even though the ONLY Turkish individual at TYT acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, I knew people would ignore it. After all, not many people seem to know that "Turk" has an alternative meaninn the past, corporations and rich donors were savvy enough to split their giving to both political parties so that both sides would have a financial incentive to protect them. Yes, they might lean more to the Republican side, but they gave enough to the Democrats to get them properly motivated to look out for corporate interests.Republicans have repeated the lie that tax cuts are always good for the economy so often that all of Washington seems absolutely convinced that it's true. The conventional wisdom is so established on this that all a Republican has to say is, "Everyone knows you don't raise taxes in the middle of a recession..." Or in good times or in mediocre times or ever. All tax cuts are always good.TYT is looking for fans who are willing to volunteer a couple hours of their time passing out fliers advertising the show. We aren't that picky about where you pass them out at, however we're hoping to flier as many college campuses as possible. The fliers have already been produced so all we'll need you to do is send an email to with your name and mailing address (to send the free t-shirt & fliers to) also be sure to include in your email where you'll be passing out the fliers. InOn Wednesday's show, Cenk explains his overt support for Senator Feingold, and announces that he will be doing something for the first time. Meanwhile, Senator Kaufman of Delaware explains some of the fundamental reasons why our national politicians can't do the right thingwo students at Rutgers University are in trouble for secretly taping a roomate having *** sex in his dorm room and broadcasting it on iChat. The student that was taped ended up committing suicide. Australia conducted an audit to find out which websites their employees were looking at. A couple of the Right Wing workers visited 200,000 pornCenk gives his final thoughts on the last two interviews. Ben Coes probably thought Cenk is a Republican. Schweizer mentioned that Pelosi's father was from Baltimore, which is apparently a bad thing. A candidate for governor in Maine telling a group that they'll see headlinesuring today's show, Ana and Cenk talked about a story regarding a woman in Scotland named Samantha Brooks, who deceived two women into sexual contact by pretending to be man.These are hopeful days. The four horsemen of the establishment look like they are leaving the White House. Peter Orszag, who apparently was the most conservative of them all (and who just lobbied for more tax cuts for the rich), has left his position as head of the Office of Management and Budget. Larry Summers is leaving his position ashe daily music of The Young Turks. Want to know what was played? Check it out!! Previous day's playlists are on previous postings...First, let me get this out of the way - I have no problems with the rich. I plan on being rich. I'm an American. I believe. We all believe we can get to the top and enjoy the spoils of wealth. We are Americans.
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  • Okopogo - Harshlands
    Okopogo - Harshlands Posts: 751 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    For years I have lived happily in ignorance of the upheaval that is taking place all around me. Amidst all the chaos of wars being fought for no apparent reason other than greed and provocation, administrators in power trying to dictate or discriminate against people for their faith or lack thereof, recessions, inflations, bubbles, I was an island just staying happily afloat in deliberate naivetmy only exception was listening every once in a while to my brother's show, The Young Turks, on the internet but that was for pure entertainment. The reason for my self-imposed illiteracy was because I felt powerless and insignificant in face of all that was happening in the world; although this was my lifelong belief, the 'second Bush' era, I believe, cemented the fact of ancould do whatever pleased them or the interests they were supporting without being held accountable. The world would keep on turning, young people dying for no logical, humane reasons, some people going bankrupt while others' endowments swelled to incomprehensible proportions whether I took notice or not.. knew back in 2007 when I began working for a show called The Young Turks, it would stir the pot with the Armenian community. Even though the show itself has nothing to do with Turks, or Armenians, or anything even close to that nature, people would misunderstand and explode with fury. Even though the ONLY Turkish individual at TYT acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, I knew people would ignore it. After all, not many people seem to know that "Turk" has an alternative meaninn the past, corporations and rich donors were savvy enough to split their giving to both political parties so that both sides would have a financial incentive to protect them. Yes, they might lean more to the Republican side, but they gave enough to the Democrats to get them properly motivated to look out for corporate interests.Republicans have repeated the lie that tax cuts are always good for the economy so often that all of Washington seems absolutely convinced that it's true. The conventional wisdom is so established on this that all a Republican has to say is, "Everyone knows you don't raise taxes in the middle of a recession..." Or in good times or in mediocre times or ever. All tax cuts are always good.TYT is looking for fans who are willing to volunteer a couple hours of their time passing out fliers advertising the show. We aren't that picky about where you pass them out at, however we're hoping to flier as many college campuses as possible. The fliers have already been produced so all we'll need you to do is send an email to with your name and mailing address (to send the free t-shirt & fliers to) also be sure to include in your email where you'll be passing out the fliers. InOn Wednesday's show, Cenk explains his overt support for Senator Feingold, and announces that he will be doing something for the first time. Meanwhile, Senator Kaufman of Delaware explains some of the fundamental reasons why our national politicians can't do the right thingwo students at Rutgers University are in trouble for secretly taping a roomate having *** sex in his dorm room and broadcasting it on iChat. The student that was taped ended up committing suicide. Australia conducted an audit to find out which websites their employees were looking at. A couple of the Right Wing workers visited 200,000 pornCenk gives his final thoughts on the last two interviews. Ben Coes probably thought Cenk is a Republican. Schweizer mentioned that Pelosi's father was from Baltimore, which is apparently a bad thing. A candidate for governor in Maine telling a group that they'll see headlinesuring today's show, Ana and Cenk talked about a story regarding a woman in Scotland named Samantha Brooks, who deceived two women into sexual contact by pretending to be man.These are hopeful days. The four horsemen of the establishment look like they are leaving the White House. Peter Orszag, who apparently was the most conservative of them all (and who just lobbied for more tax cuts for the rich), has left his position as head of the Office of Management and Budget. Larry Summers is leaving his position ashe daily music of The Young Turks. Want to know what was played? Check it out!! Previous day's playlists are on previous postings...First, let me get this out of the way - I have no problems with the rich. I plan on being rich. I'm an American. I believe. We all believe we can get to the top and enjoy the spoils of wealth. We are Americans.

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  • RavynneSidhe - Harshlands
    RavynneSidhe - Harshlands Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    It would help if you would space out your post instead of typing a wall of text, OP.
    I was LadyTsukiyo in a past life :3
  • Celesse - Harshlands
    Celesse - Harshlands Posts: 92 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    For years I have lived happily in ignorance of the upheaval that is taking place all around me. Amidst all the chaos of wars being fought for no apparent reason other than greed and provocation, administrators in power trying to dictate or discriminate against people for their faith or lack thereof, recessions, inflations, bubbles, I was an island just staying happily afloat in deliberate naivetmy only exception was listening every once in a while to my brother's show, The Young Turks, on the internet but that was for pure entertainment. The reason for my self-imposed illiteracy was because I felt powerless and insignificant in face of all that was happening in the world; although this was my lifelong belief, the 'second Bush' era, I believe, cemented the fact of ancould do whatever pleased them or the interests they were supporting without being held accountable. The world would keep on turning, young people dying for no logical, humane reasons, some people going bankrupt while others' endowments swelled to incomprehensible proportions whether I took notice or not.. knew back in 2007 when I began working for a show called The Young Turks, it would stir the pot with the Armenian community. Even though the show itself has nothing to do with Turks, or Armenians, or anything even close to that nature, people would misunderstand and explode with fury. Even though the ONLY Turkish individual at TYT acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, I knew people would ignore it. After all, not many people seem to know that "Turk" has an alternative meaninn the past, corporations and rich donors were savvy enough to split their giving to both political parties so that both sides would have a financial incentive to protect them. Yes, they might lean more to the Republican side, but they gave enough to the Democrats to get them properly motivated to look out for corporate interests.Republicans have repeated the lie that tax cuts are always good for the economy so often that all of Washington seems absolutely convinced that it's true. The conventional wisdom is so established on this that all a Republican has to say is, "Everyone knows you don't raise taxes in the middle of a recession..." Or in good times or in mediocre times or ever. All tax cuts are always good.TYT is looking for fans who are willing to volunteer a couple hours of their time passing out fliers advertising the show. We aren't that picky about where you pass them out at, however we're hoping to flier as many college campuses as possible. The fliers have already been produced so all we'll need you to do is send an email to with your name and mailing address (to send the free t-shirt & fliers to) also be sure to include in your email where you'll be passing out the fliers. InOn Wednesday's show, Cenk explains his overt support for Senator Feingold, and announces that he will be doing something for the first time. Meanwhile, Senator Kaufman of Delaware explains some of the fundamental reasons why our national politicians can't do the right thingwo students at Rutgers University are in trouble for secretly taping a roomate having *** sex in his dorm room and broadcasting it on iChat. The student that was taped ended up committing suicide. Australia conducted an audit to find out which websites their employees were looking at. A couple of the Right Wing workers visited 200,000 pornCenk gives his final thoughts on the last two interviews. Ben Coes probably thought Cenk is a Republican. Schweizer mentioned that Pelosi's father was from Baltimore, which is apparently a bad thing. A candidate for governor in Maine telling a group that they'll see headlinesuring today's show, Ana and Cenk talked about a story regarding a woman in Scotland named Samantha Brooks, who deceived two women into sexual contact by pretending to be man.These are hopeful days. The four horsemen of the establishment look like they are leaving the White House. Peter Orszag, who apparently was the most conservative of them all (and who just lobbied for more tax cuts for the rich), has left his position as head of the Office of Management and Budget. Larry Summers is leaving his position ashe daily music of The Young Turks. Want to know what was played? Check it out!! Previous day's playlists are on previous postings...First, let me get this out of the way - I have no problems with the rich. I plan on being rich. I'm an American. I believe. We all believe we can get to the top and enjoy the spoils of wealth. We are Americans.

    Thumbs up if you legitimately read this like I did.
  • Meyki - Sanctuary
    Meyki - Sanctuary Posts: 222 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I run usually with faction, we sell drop in AH and split money after. Fair, no drama. I would not join "random drop distribution" run.

    edit: And yeah, I didn't bother to read that wall of text, I gave up after 5th line. Usually this kind of post is full of bull**** that could be easily said in 2 sentences anyway.
  • Wuss - Harshlands
    Wuss - Harshlands Posts: 168 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    i will not go to a banked tt there bullshlt to say the least

    random run on medium with a pick up group

    random run on high 4 times with each faction member contributing a substance (all faction run)

    are the one two types of tt ill ever do

    bank runs can suck a dlck theyre only formed by somon looking to take somthing everyone wants and more time than not they a **** loot for the DDs being that allot of banked runs are done with sub gets first choice then tank then healer then dd are left to suck on a mirage or some ****
  • Pot_Head - Harshlands
    Pot_Head - Harshlands Posts: 701 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    na na na boo boo stick your head in doo doo
  • Born_Free - Harshlands
    Born_Free - Harshlands Posts: 977 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    For years I have lived happily in ignorance of the upheaval that is taking place all around me. Amidst all the chaos of wars being fought for no apparent reason other than greed and provocation, administrators in power trying to dictate or discriminate against people for their faith or lack thereof, recessions, inflations, bubbles, I was an island just staying happily afloat in deliberate naivetmy only exception was listening every once in a while to my brother's show, The Young Turks, on the internet but that was for pure entertainment. The reason for my self-imposed illiteracy was because I felt powerless and insignificant in face of all that was happening in the world; although this was my lifelong belief, the 'second Bush' era, I believe, cemented the fact of ancould do whatever pleased them or the interests they were supporting without being held accountable. The world would keep on turning, young people dying for no logical, humane reasons, some people going bankrupt while others' endowments swelled to incomprehensible proportions whether I took notice or not.. knew back in 2007 when I began working for a show called The Young Turks, it would stir the pot with the Armenian community. Even though the show itself has nothing to do with Turks, or Armenians, or anything even close to that nature, people would misunderstand and explode with fury. Even though the ONLY Turkish individual at TYT acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, I knew people would ignore it. After all, not many people seem to know that "Turk" has an alternative meaninn the past, corporations and rich donors were savvy enough to split their giving to both political parties so that both sides would have a financial incentive to protect them. Yes, they might lean more to the Republican side, but they gave enough to the Democrats to get them properly motivated to look out for corporate interests.Republicans have repeated the lie that tax cuts are always good for the economy so often that all of Washington seems absolutely convinced that it's true. The conventional wisdom is so established on this that all a Republican has to say is, "Everyone knows you don't raise taxes in the middle of a recession..." Or in good times or in mediocre times or ever. All tax cuts are always good.TYT is looking for fans who are willing to volunteer a couple hours of their time passing out fliers advertising the show. We aren't that picky about where you pass them out at, however we're hoping to flier as many college campuses as possible. The fliers have already been produced so all we'll need you to do is send an email to with your name and mailing address (to send the free t-shirt & fliers to) also be sure to include in your email where you'll be passing out the fliers. InOn Wednesday's show, Cenk explains his overt support for Senator Feingold, and announces that he will be doing something for the first time. Meanwhile, Senator Kaufman of Delaware explains some of the fundamental reasons why our national politicians can't do the right thingwo students at Rutgers University are in trouble for secretly taping a roomate having *** sex in his dorm room and broadcasting it on iChat. The student that was taped ended up committing suicide. Australia conducted an audit to find out which websites their employees were looking at. A couple of the Right Wing workers visited 200,000 pornCenk gives his final thoughts on the last two interviews. Ben Coes probably thought Cenk is a Republican. Schweizer mentioned that Pelosi's father was from Baltimore, which is apparently a bad thing. A candidate for governor in Maine telling a group that they'll see headlinesuring today's show, Ana and Cenk talked about a story regarding a woman in Scotland named Samantha Brooks, who deceived two women into sexual contact by pretending to be man.These are hopeful days. The four horsemen of the establishment look like they are leaving the White House. Peter Orszag, who apparently was the most conservative of them all (and who just lobbied for more tax cuts for the rich), has left his position as head of the Office of Management and Budget. Larry Summers is leaving his position ashe daily music of The Young Turks. Want to know what was played? Check it out!! Previous day's playlists are on previous postings...First, let me get this out of the way - I have no problems with the rich. I plan on being rich. I'm an American. I believe. We all believe we can get to the top and enjoy the spoils of wealth. We are Americans.

    >.> Why is everybody taking my "unusually-long-wall-of-useless-text" job?

    <.< But in all seriousness? These days, you can't afford to do banked TT's with random-**** people. People are such thieves.
  • Pot_Head - Harshlands
    Pot_Head - Harshlands Posts: 701 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    >.> Why is everybody taking my "unusually-long-wall-of-useless-text" job?

    <.< But in all seriousness? These days, you can't afford to do banked TT's with random-**** people. People are such thieves.

    when r u on msn? O.o
  • MrHanky - Harshlands
    MrHanky - Harshlands Posts: 477 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    >.> Why is everybody taking my "unusually-long-wall-of-useless-text" job?

    <.< But in all seriousness? These days, you can't afford to do banked TT's with random-**** people. People are such thieves.

    and why do u wanna have jlung's children?
    b:bye
  • Ididbarbie - Harshlands
    Ididbarbie - Harshlands Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    ididbarbie dont like random TT drops. he feels random drops are generally highly unfair.
    he likes banked TTs because ididbarbie is a fair panda and likes everyone to be happy. he hates greedy ppl.
    ididbarbie likes to do in order (subber, tank, banker and the rest) just so everyone is happy. ididbarbie subs so gets 1st pick, and since he tanked is only fair he gets 2nd pick, and by being the banker is only natural ididbarbie also gets 3rd pick. and after subber, banker and tank picks, out of pure kindness ididbarbie leaves the rest to the team.
    ...unless it was a very good run and ididbarbie waits for 2nd round to pick.
    so, yeah. ididbarbie thinks most ppl that likes random drops are normally greedy, because they secretly hope everything just goes to their bags. ijs
  • Garaver - Harshlands
    Garaver - Harshlands Posts: 882 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    ididbarbie dont like random TT drops. he feels random drops are generally highly unfair.
    he likes banked TTs because ididbarbie is a fair panda and likes everyone to be happy. he hates greedy ppl.
    ididbarbie likes to do in order (subber, tank, banker and the rest) just so everyone is happy. ididbarbie subs so gets 1st pick, and since he tanked is only fair he gets 2nd pick, and by being the banker is only natural ididbarbie also gets 3rd pick. and after subber, banker and tank picks, out of pure kindness ididbarbie leaves the rest to the team.
    ...unless it was a very good run and ididbarbie waits for 2nd round to pick.
    so, yeah. ididbarbie thinks most ppl that likes random drops are normally greedy, because they secretly hope everything just goes to their bags. ijs

    ididbarbie is good boy... ididbarbie is fine....ididbarbie is nice....

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  • Born_Free - Harshlands
    Born_Free - Harshlands Posts: 977 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    and why do u wanna have jlung's children?

    .-. What made you draw that conclusion?
  • Angel - Harshlands
    Angel - Harshlands Posts: 158 Arc User
    edited October 2010
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  • Noc - Harshlands
    Noc - Harshlands Posts: 192 Arc User
    edited October 2010
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  • Pot_Head - Harshlands
    Pot_Head - Harshlands Posts: 701 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    and why do u wanna have jlung's children?

    she wants my babies not his :D

    get yo facts right old man