Helper Check-in

Ulti Project so far

• Almost 600+ clearees!
• Four self-sufficient squads!
• 45+ active helpers!

What is next

• Retirement home
• Next Season?

Survey!

• Mostly positive responses! Mentioning that people love helping proggers and paying it forward
   
• Negative responses revolved around scheduling
  • not being scheduled enough
  • our late notice scheduling system

How are you feeling about Ulit Project so far?

Survey!

• Also mostly positive responses! Many mentions of how fun every squad is and how helpers enjoy the people they play with
   
• Minor criticism on jokes and silliness, but nothing serious and the levity is generally seen as a good thing

How do you feel about your squad dynamic?

Survey!

• Almost universal agreement that helpers want to play for multiple squads and meet new people

How do you feel about helping squads outside of the ones you regularly play for?

• This made me extremely happy, since I personally felt this was a major issue in past seasons (6.5 and 7.0)

Survey!

• Not being scheduled enough
• Drawbacks of c42s over c41s
• Proggers not "deserving" clears (usually when it comes to damage numbers)
• Job comp restrictions
• Taking proggers more than once within a 1-2 week span

Anything about Ulti Project you see can improve?

• I've put a lot of thought about all of these problems, some since amost a year ago
• They are much more difficult to address than it may seem on the surface
• Any help finding solutions is appreciated!

• s5 FRU has one of our best active/inactive ratios
  • s4 Legacy (6.5) had ~100 helpers, maybe 60 were active
  • s5 FRU has ~50 helpers, and 40+ can easily be considered active
• scheduling is hard
• coordinators can do better when rotating/standardizing who comes on what days

Not being scheduled enough

• Consistent performances (causing as few wipes as possible)
• Ease of scheduling (can you do 2+ full-days with a squad without caveats?)
• Flexing within your own role

Who will most likely be scheduled?

Things that don't matter as much

• Flexing outside of your main role
• Giga pumping (majority of our helpers pump in the top 20%)

• We've gotten into a habit of mostly scheduling two proggers at a time
• This seems a bit better for prog parties, but maybe not so great for clear parties?
• Disparities in preparedness is sometimes noticeable
• Amount of cleared proggers is higher, at the cost of individual party success rate
• C42s have a lower risk of "body dragging"

c41 vs c42

• Goal here is simple
  • have a cushion for helper error
  • allow proggers to play non-meta jobs

Job/comp restrictions

• Squad A will take progger, progger does bad, Squad B takes progger again (and sometimes Squad C after that)
• Mostly a logistical oversight, but also a scheduling convenience
• This is something coordinators could be better about
• We run so efficiently, the majority of proggers on the "clear-ready" list (at least 90%+) get contacted by a coordinator

Re-taking proggers

• This is not a new problem, it has always existed
• Many proggers play extremely safe in p5, at the cost of their damage
• How responsible are we for making sure our proggers are ready outside of UP?

Proggers not "deserving" clears

Closing procedure

• Helpers will get the "Retired Helper" role
  • We'll actually remember to keep a channel for it this time so people can network
• Squads channels will stay open a few more weeks until we are ready to reset for the next season (prob week 2 Savage)
• We'll most likely run a mini legacy season, and do little if any Savage clears (but we are open to a Savage clear squad if anybody is interested in running that)