Skyrim: Mellori's Minions

Adventures in Skyrim - spoilers ahead! You can follow the rest of the story here!

The dreamer wasn't doing anything criminal (I think) so we left him and headed down to the ratway. Fortunately all the thieves I previously killed were still dead, only Galathil the face changer was there. Unfortunately she admitted to having Imperial and Dominion clients which led me to punching her in the face, followed by Brutus running her through.

There was a new weapon shop in town too, "The Iron Lass" run by Mellori who had some tasks for us. First was to help her friend Old Jako clear out a draugr tomb. The veteran didn't have it in him to do in his old comrades so I let Brutus watch over him while I did the deed.

The Iron Lass needs to make more light sources in her store.

Next we were sent to find a clockwork heart in a dwemer ruin, near Nerelia's house. After briefly dropping in to check that she was ok, we continued on and found a bandit running from a pair of angry giants and their mammoths. We watched as the bandit we splattered, and then one of the mammoths attacked Brutus. Big mistake.

One hit KO, but not the way you'd think.

I simply sat back and watched him demolish all the enemies with ease, single handedly.

MMO Design: Vet Party Building

[Part of my MMO Design folder.]

While playing Vindictus I decided to join a party raid titled "Pls Join" for a boss I've never done. While waiting for the party to fill up I asked what tactics were needed and only got replies of "This is my first run too!" and "Lolz I dunno! xD". Still, the team filled up and we set off. As per usual for all raids I've participated in (other than Lakoria) the first move was setting up a campfire to buff up. During this down time I asked again and got different people telling me they also didn't know what to do. That's cool, we can learn together I thought.

Battle begins, we're not doing too badly until the boss nukes us with a special skill. The party leader then gets pissed and says "You do know how to fight this right?". Um. What? 6 out of 8 of your team just said they didn't. Weren't you listening? He then says "Sorry all, I'm restarting" and ends the raid right there. A few minutes later I see his new party waiting for members entitled "Please know what to do".

Without getting into the "play the way you want to play" argument, wouldn't the easiest method to fix this simply be a check box for "Veteran" when viewing the party list? One you have to "tick" first before joining the party, and the only people who can click the tick box are those who on their last attempt of that same raid/mission were successful (otherwise the option is greyed out so you can't just bluff the box)? This way people who failed it or haven't tried it can't join "Know what to do parties" and at the same time Vets who get tired of waiting for the "vet party" to fill up can opt to knowingly join a potentially less experienced team.

Do you think this will cause more problems that it will solve or is it something you would like to see?