Guide The Guide Bounties Board

Hey @HellsWrath , thanks very much for taking the time to drop in and post this. It is really, very much appreciated. You might have just singlehandedly ensured that we offer these Bounties for at least one more month because of your post, so thank you!

 

Yes, pretty much. What are the best practices / fastest way(s) for leveling from 50 to 60?

 

The Bounties offered have been updated.

 

Thanks for signing up for another Guide, Kylie!

As for the Paladin Guide, a good list would include just about everything: Intro. Skills breakdowns. Min/Maxing. Different tanking rotations. Melding. Gear. Stats. Accessing the job. Leveling. Macros, etc. etc.

A response to your note....

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Once again you're mistaking this whole pet project of mine as monetizing the work people do on Guides, instead of the way it's intended - as giving a little bit of recognition, thanks, and a way to identify some Guides we could use in our library.

Think of it like this: the work someone potentially could do on a 1-Star bounty like "Start your own FC" and the work someone could put into a 3-Star Bounty like "Ultimate Bard Guide" could frankly be equal, depending on the level of depth the writer wants to get into. Caimie's gathering guide is a good example. The amount of time and attention that went into that Guide surmounts 90% of the Guides in our library. For it, she received only a 1-Star Bounty. It's impossible to either predict or arbitrarily prescribe how much time, effort and/or research a Guide writer will put into their Guide - regardless of its perceived level of difficulty. I could not predict that someone as dedicated to detail as Caimie would write a gathering guide. On the flip side, writers could also potentially copy and paste a huge Guide they wrote in the past and publish it here for a 3-Star bounty with less than 5 minutes of work. Trying to pay writers for their effort will inevitably devolve into a petty bitchfest. That's why I don't even try to divide bounties by their perceived level of difficulty. It's all just guesswork, and 9 times out of 10 I'm going to be wrong.

Instead, Guides are allocated as 1, 2 and 3 stars based upon - in order - random whimsy, my personal interest, relevancy at the current moment in time in the game's lifespan, and filling gaps in our existing library. For example, last month PvP was featured as a 2-Star Guide because everyone was getting into frontlines to grind esoterics. Alas, no one signed up for it, and Heavensward got 1 month older with tons of players experiencing Frontlines for their esoteric farming dozens of times ad nauseum. Add on top of that that FFXIV players aren't exactly notorious for being super hardcore into PvP either. That's what makes it a 1-Star Guide this month. If no one signs up for it, and a lot of threads pop up around the Realm about "How do I PvP better?", maybe it goes all the way up to a 3-Star Guide. You're trying to see rhyme and reason within a list where I have done my best to remove as much of it as I can.

We definitely want and need a really good PvP guide here at the Realm. We want all the Guides here at the Realm. But we're not going to pay for them all. So, for PvP or FC Airships or Alex Savage, this month the focus is elsewhere. The topic of conversation around the Realm has been elsewhere. The focus of the game is elsewhere. My personal focus is elsewhere, and that's an important point: Keep in mind, this is an open board. If you think the PvP guide should be a 2-Star Guide, what's stopping you from offering it as your own 2-Star Guide? It just takes $10 or less to do that. From the beginning, we'd hoped more people would offer 1, 2, 3 star bounties, so the list grows, and the number of writers receiving recognition grows as well. Don't like an entry? Create your own!

On the otherhand, if you want to write a PvP Guide but are deterred because it's only 1-Star right now, then I just have 2 things to say: A) How much are you getting from the other sites you post your Guide on? B) If you won't do something without a reward, you're not the type of writer we're looking for. This is a free site. The content is free and open for everyone. For a site like ours to grow, we need members that want to add to the content as much as they receive from it.

At the end of the day, this program is just me spending my money on hopefully creating something fun and interesting here at the Realm, something that gives people a little bit more pride in their work and say "Hey, I got a prize for this!" like a Kinder Surprise. It's not a salary or a reimbursement. And, the very moment it appears that people think of it as such, or that this is owed to them is the moment I put the credit card away and stop offering them. As the Disclaimer says, it's supposed to be fun. Don't take it too seriously. And, I think most people get that.

TL;DR: If you don't like something about the list, we encourage you and will support you in offering your own Bounties!

 

It's unfortunate to see you go. Hope things work out for you soon! Good luck!

 

I cared. I hope things improve IRL for you WildBill! Sending you best wishes for good luck!

 

**Important Notice**

Aside from the current sign-ups, putting new sign ups on hold for a few days, as we will be mixing things up this month, and I'm away on vacation and can't make the needed edits. I will post immediately when we are accepting new sign ups.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

Hello Everyone,

I'm happy to announce that the Guide Bounties board will officially be closed as of this post. "Happy?", you say? Yes, extremely happy! Because these Bounties were so successful, we think it would be a great idea to open up MORE Bounties all across the Realm to include Guides, of course, but a whole lot of other ways to recognize contributions around the site! Because of this, with the upcoming FFXIVRealm 2.1 Update (about which you can read more HERE) we will be REOPENING BOUNTIES ALL ACROSS THE REALM!!!

The whole team would like to sincerely thank each of our amazing Bounty Hunters who contributed their awesome Guides to the Realm over the past few months. Please rest assured that more Bounties for Guides will be available when we relaunch the Bounties as Realm Bounties with the 2.1 Update!

From the entire team here,

Thank-you!~