Dear PIMD Players, I am a member of one of the clubs that tests parties every day to find potd/ppotd. But unfortunately not enough clubs are willing to help with the testing. So I thought about something that would help the testing clubs out to find potd/ppotd faster. For example for ATA to eliminate 5 parties (normal and pro ones) at the beginning of each hunt, or giving us some hints which parties could probably drop. I'm posting this in hopes to raise some awareness and maybe even to get more clubs in to help out with the testing. Let's help each other out to make things easier for everyone. Thank you for taking the time to read this. ☕❤
But they made that algorithm so I guess they could kinda help out with figuring it just a bit? It's really painful having to test 3 pros for instance in one day to find ppotd
Or potd for even smaller ones. The hardest pros for us are like sky-high or bij or some harder party for regular clubs that don't have some high stat requirements :/
Let's just hope and see what happens at least this might be an eye opener for other high ranking clubs (except for cc clubs) to try and help out, or for the devs to consider it not for a selfish cause but for many players sake as well.
I could only see this being useful for longer parties like BIJ. But even then, POTD seems to typically get found quite quickly already 😮 Finding other clubs to help you is definitely going to be the way to go.
Finding other clubs willing to test is not easy either. And this was for the sake of ppotd as well,not only potd, since that part of game exists too alongside with clubs doing it
Of course it isn’t easy 😂 But it’s a much more viable option in my opinion! Also since the whole concept of having a party of the day is finding it, you’ll probably have little help from developers in that sense.
It is more viable and if we had enough of clubs testing this probably wouldn't be even written 😹 but unfortunately, people prefer doing EC parties for changeover than putting just a bit more of effort to help out themselves and others. Anyways let's hope for the help from ATA at least.
Things seem to run smoother than they used to. I can remember a time not very long ago where PPOTD was found maybe half the time. Overall, I don't think this is anything for ATA to do anything with, it's just a matter of getting more clubs that are strong enough to do pro parties.
Changing the algorithm was my last option so if nothing changes then this is where ATA might need to consider this idea. 🤓
I lurked some old threads a while back, looking at old hunts particularly, and I noticed ATA used to actually tell us what the potd was. I'm not sure if I imagined that or not, but if not that must have been nice. Support. It also doesn't help that there are SO many freaking parties. It seems ridiculous.
For clubs that does PPOTD, this would be helpful. And since only a few clubs can test harder pro parties, I hope ATA does look into this matter. A few only does hard pros on a daily basis, and almost every club is either a Cat club or doesn't have enough high stat members to do hard PPOTDs. Here's a suggestion: Whatever the POTD is, the PPOTD could also be the pro version of it. But of course this would mean changing algorithms and everything. But if it could help clubs that does pro parties...
@Sansa thanks for support and that actually sounds as a good idea!(but it might end up being too easy so they probably won't accept that..they do love to torture us a bit in the end 😅) Tbh we would appreciate any help from ATA as long as it would actually raise chances of ppotd being found each day
I think the bigger picture here is that so many people quit PIMD before becoming strong enough to be in those high stat clubs and clubs struggle to do hard parties and pro-parties because very few people stick around regular clubs these days. It’s much easier for players to hop around looking for free premium parties than to help clubs test or just merely stick around a club period. I don’t know if the solution is for ATA to make the search easier. I personally like the search but I can see how Pro Parties can be difficult. I’ve been collaborating in a POTD club long enough to know it takes a lot of high stat players to defeat them properly and with a lot of those high stat players sticking to premium party clubs, I don’t see more pro party clubs suddenly opening left and right any time soon to be able to test Pros efficiently. Maybe the better solution for this would be to create more ways to make casual players stick to playing (not drive them away by making avis harder to get for instance), or perhaps even to strengthen clubs by creating new club features like better chats, ability to do polls, more chat games, better admin tools, and just generally more features to make sticking to one club more attractive to those casual players.
@Rogue that is very true what you mentioned and I agree that there should be some updates. But again,there are people like us willing to test and we don't mind testing 2 pros daily, it's just that when it has to be done for the third time is really too much and we still don't want people to lose that many drops, especially since we have club of people willing to test. So just for those who devote their time for this, any sort of help from ATA would be good; of course it would be better if people were sticking more to regular clubs, but when they stay there, then at least ATA could make it a bit easier to find those pros instead of spending half the day on looking for it