Ultra Worm Hole and Community Engagement

[Caramell 🍬]

We're currently working on some changes that may make one of our more challenging features on the site more fun and engaging. Our goal is not to remove the challenging aspect of the feature, please be reassured of this fact.

However, it's come to our attention that we may need more input from the community. Why aren't you engaging in our Raids that we have on site? Considering that all members regardless of progression level are able to hop into a raid, we'd like to better understand your top reasons why.

I've left voting to allow members to vote for a maximum of three reasons. This may help the staff know where our focus could be better spent, so we're not just muddying the waters further and making it a bigger convoluted mess, as well.

Feel free to give more specific feedback in a post on this thread. ^^ The more specific the reason, the better we can understand where you're coming from. It doesn't guarantee that any suggested changes will be made. It just helps us know what you'd like as a community. And ZZ has been, by and large, a community effort!

All reasons will remain "valid" for the purpose of gathering feedback, so don't worry about being heavily criticized for your reasons. Though, we do also encourage civil discussion between members and staff on the matter, as well.

Poll closes December 31st at 11:30 PM CBOX Time.

Thank you all for taking the time to read, vote, and/or provide your own feedback. ^^

[Jenesis]

So I voted for Difficulty, Value, and Other, and I'll go through my points in that order:

Difficulty-Because the Raid Boss is always a higher level than the participating Pokemon, it becomes important to use high stat Pokemon and high power moves. At my current point in the journey (Union Cave) I mostly have first and second form Pokemon with weak level-up moves, so the challenge is not worth it for me, even if I was allowed to use my PC Pokemon.

Value-There are a few Pokemon that I would like to catch from the Raids, but most of them are locked behind either higher badge counts or I want specific Sandwiches to increase my odds (which need cities I don't have access to yet). None of the non-exp item rewards are interesting to me and it's quicker to get exp just from fighting random encounters in the wild.

Other-Lastly, because Raids are a pure battle mode, they are intrinsically less interesting to me than doing normal journey threads where I can encounter interesting situations with NPCs and wild spawns. If I wanted to just battle mons I'd go play a real video game. The only reason I would do Raids is because I was interested in specific raid-only rewards, and I don't think (because of the two above points) I have the best odds of getting them now as opposed to waiting until I have a stronger team and access to more locations.

[Tarlar]

Voted difficult and other, reasons:

It's NEW. It's a new mechanic and while it's probably rather easy, it requires energy to figure out how it works and what tactic is best, since its different than a normal battle.
I have tried it a bit, and are planning/hoping to be able to use it more in the future, I'm especially interested in the items (TM's), but right now I don't have the energy.

It does require a special team or tactic, and as mentioned it is very battle focused and little story, so it can be hard to keep a muse when nothing "affects" the rp.

[Marchbaby]

I voted for Too Risky, Thread Limits, and Interest but everything is a factor for me to some degree.

Value: There are some nice prizes but the Apricorns, Berries, Seeds and most of the TMs outside of tier 3 do not interest me. The Heart Sweets and Experience Candies are by far the best prizes besides the tier 3 TMs. If you fail to capture the raid Pokemon there just isn't enough prizes I would use to interest me.

Difficulty: Not as bad for me as most others but most of my teams are built around the regular parts of the RP and not for raids. I can build teams for it but it would take a lot of time and slow my already snails pace progress to a crawl.

Cost: Like above not as bad for me but still makes it harder to do everything else with the price of admission.

Interest: Most of the Pokemon do not interest me at all. Hisuian Zorua which is not a option and Ursaluna do but those would be better as quest Pokemon in my opinion.

Tgread Limits: Though we do not always do events having to put either the event or raid on hold makes it hard to justify trying raids out as they are not time limited anyway and typically events have better rewards.

Too Risky: As mentioned above not capturing the raid Pokemon combined with not being interested by most of the prizes makes it too risky to give them a chance at the moment.

I believe that just about covers it but if I do remember anything else I will edit this post.