RafiCat
I have never made it to Kam on my own. the one time I got to kill her, I was invited in when the crew was already there, so I could get attuned, then to my surprise and delight we went on to do the whole thing.
After that I rarely managed to get my crew even to green, making me wonder if I suck as a leader.
sweatdrop But I think the biggest problem is just the length of time it takes. It doesn't help that you fairly often have to find a replacement crew, and this is especially hard late at night.
Probably the best thing is to
be a replacement, lol, in a crew that's already far along!
One thing you also need to remember is that it was still pretty early going then and we were all still finding our feet in DMS.
And stumbling over them a lot when you get right down to it.
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Everybody's gotten better and stronger and we'll be a lot better prepared to support you when you get back than we were then.
Still, I happen to agree with you re: being a replacement vs trying to go all the way through.
Unless you have a huge amount of time (just finished a run with a decent Crew (not great, but decent) and it took us over two hours to clear 14 Yellow rooms).
Green Rooms take longer and 100%/Kam takes even longer.
If you haven't got a Crew that's in it for the long haul, it could be a brutal process, and I almost think that Kam may create a new form of co-operation in zOMG! where we see people setting up "Hand-off" Topics, where people could swap in and out of runs in order to keep them alive and let people get to Kam without the 8-10-12 hour investment of time that so few can really devote to a game.