I don't get to use this excuse as all my toons are in my solo SG, but I don't really need to use it either, since I never PuG except for trials and even then I only join ones where I know most of the people or lead my own.
But it's like even if you're done with whatever group you're in, why even fabricate a lie, just say you have to go, why should the other people care why you have to go?
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"That's weird that guy calls his mom 'my SG'."
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Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
I'm wondering why the base assumption is "that's a lie"?
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--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
The following is an absolutely true account:
Back in the early '90s, when I was in junior high school, my family got a new puppy. One day I awoke to find it had gotten into my backpack while everyone was asleep and destroyed a few things, including two classes' worth of assignments due that morning.
Even though I was able to recover a few shredded remnants to bring in as a means of backing up my story, my parents had to call the school and speak to the teachers personally to let them now I was telling the truth about why I didn't have those assignments ready to turn in.
Because, you see, "my dog ate my homework" is such a classic lame excuse that people assume it's a lie, even when it's not.
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Because, you see, "my dog ate my homework" is such a classic lame excuse that people assume it's a lie, even when it's not.
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--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
While I'd never leave something like a TF or trial once started or even mid mission running regular content, I do leave teams when members of my SG get on. Not because they require me to, but because they don't require me to. We have never had rules or requirements of each other. We play together because we are friends and when we are on we want to play together.
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Task Forces are sacred. Once I commit to one, I will go to the end (unless my net connection falls).
But if I am PUGing, and I see a friend (SG or otherwise) needing help with something, I will help. Even if it means I drop a XP steamroller team. I always value my friends more than myself.
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Only time I flat out walked away from a TF I was recruited to was when we had three leeches that logged off after the first mission. The leader and two other players (all in the same SG) defended them and refused to kick them. Then I got a Mistell that revealed the "missing players" were alt accounts owned by the leader and his two cronies.
I PM'd the one other player and we quit. The other guy told me they started sending him nasty tells and I explained how he could /ignore them.
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My wife is one hell of a Tank and understands when 'stuff' is happening she's going to have to wait 'til it's over (TF/Trial, etc.). Though I also know not everyone's wife plays the game, and it happens. Even then I still have my few moments of 'nightly wife aggro' that I'll attend to before she goes to bed (since I stay up a little later than her and I might choose that as a time to play the game).|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
as is something along the lines of "wife aggro". It doesn't automatically mean "hey, I know I said I'd help you take care of this, but someone I like better is here, so screw you, I'm leaving right now," unless the character isn't a member of an SG which is plain to see if he's lying or not because SG membership is right under the characters name.
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Though as a matter of relevancy I do have to point out, that not every character I have, particularly on servers that don't house my main character's on, is a member of an SG. I have character's on a number of servers just to test stuff, and still, when one of my SG mates hops on, I will switch to run with them. Just because that character isn't a member of an SG doesn't mean the player is, is all I'm sayin'.
EDIT: My wife would never make me quit something I was doing in-game with the 'nightly wife aggro' thing, though I would go AFK for a few moments to see her off to bed. I'd be right back to help finish whatever it was I intended to help with afterward!
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I couldn't agree more.
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I think "wife aggro" carries far more weight. The SG can't make your life outside of the game a living hell if they feel you aren't paying enough attention to them. Well, they could if they were crazy stalker-y types, but that's a whole other issue.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
"SG is calling" is a plausible excuse (As long as the character is actually a member of an SG) as is something along the lines of "wife aggro". It doesn't automatically mean "hey, I know I said I'd help you take care of this, but someone I like better is here, so screw you, I'm leaving right now," unless the character isn't a member of an SG which is plain to see if he's lying or not because SG membership is right under the characters name.
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Only if the person using it is actually married. It's ridiculously easy to make up RL reasons to justify quitting a team. Just like it's easy to fake DCing and going to team with friends on another server.
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Originally Posted by Tyger42
I think "wife aggro" carries far more weight
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Perhaps, but there's no way to know in a PUG if the guy saying that is married or not.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Only if the person using it is actually married.
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When you hang out with altophiles, it can also mean that one of your SG mates is on an alt server, with a fresh character, and wants into whatever base setup you have (probably for the empowerment buffs or storage or whatever), but we can't send offline invites and nobody else from the (nebulous, inter-server 'super') group is on, and he's been waiting (im)patiently but dude, I'm in a mission on a different server and then suddenly you reach a stopping point, or something that may as well be a stopping point, and poof.
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Originally Posted by NuclearToast
It's just my personal experience, but it always seems to be an excuse, based on when and where it's dropped before /teamquit. Also, being a word nerd, I see the common usage of "calling" as something that's become a general convention, and is therefore repeated by those who use/abuse it. But that's just me.
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Exactly. Which is why it carries no more weight than "SG is calling." It only carries weight amongst the people that know you. In a pug it's just one of many convenient and plausible excuses.
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Originally Posted by Tyger42
Perhaps, but there's no way to know in a PUG if the guy saying that is married or not.
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Just wait 'til you've been on a PuG so bad that someone will use the excuse, "gotta go, wife giving birth." Lol.
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Originally Posted by Seek_Trouble
Or is it much like I think and just the oldest excuse in the book to leave a crappy/boring team?
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I'd say the potential consequences if true make it carry more weight whether you know it's true for sure or not.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Exactly. Which is why it carries no more weight than "SG is calling."
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I've never used an "SG is calling!" excuse to get out of a team, or any other excuse for that matter, just to quit the team. I have of course used legitimate excuses to leave a team. I've never really understood using a fake excuse to leave the team. If I want to leave the team, I'm just going to tell them I'm leaving and head out. No need to sugar coat it. On a few occasions I've been sent a follow-up tell from the team leader asking why I left and to come back, and I told them the truth: bad team, poor leading, etc.
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I've often used "my SG calls" as shorthand for "my SG has a scheduled event which I happily agreed on our forums to attend starting in 10 minutes, its been a pleasure teaming with you these past few missions but need to hop over to Pocket D now."
Some of the folks in this thread are a little over-eager to assume the worst, that either the player thinks the team sucks so is gracefully bowing out, or that the player's SG leader is an evil overlord demanding immediate tribute. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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It might also be worth noting that it isn't always the SG leader being the demanding one. As an SG leader, I can get called away by members as well. Now if I have an announced SG function, I might send them a reminder, but wouldn't insist that they drop whatever they happen to be doing at the moment.
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