Has to be limited account rollback when you really think about it. Just imagine the hackers pooling mucho resources on an account and taking it over again and again and trashing it and asking Anet to kindly fill the piggy bank back up for them. The game would be pointless for everybody in very quick time.
I also am among the lost accounts and share the pain. The OP of this thread though is trying to be quite positive about what can be done and it would be a shame if his thread was pulled because people see it as a place to vent on their cases and frustration in general.
Back on topic, I really like the idea that was aired of a 72 hours account suspension when changing the email address. Having just given up 20 days, I would be more than happy with 3 days of opportunity to say NO – I did not ask for that change. I think this, more than anything else, would be so helpful in stemming the tide of account theft.
The fact that so many people here are not finding keyloggers with multiple scans is rocking my faith that my 3 programs all show me always as clear. In my case I know phishing was involved, but I don’t know that it was all phishing. I am going to look at options of a different computer or fresh windows install this weekend. Looking at the devastation of a trashed account is pretty depressing and if I have to do that twice I think that would be the end for me.
The other thing is when you get your account back you must go in and update your account security. Login here on the site in here and go to My Account and then Account Security. You will need to remove any authorised regions that look suspect. I just got my account back and went in and removed authorisation for the suspicious “.cn” IP zone.
It doesn’t need changing, but there are two things I offer as suggestions that you might like :
1) “hacking” is a rhyme but not a strong line – I like “And he’ll link his gear to gain party backing”
2) and in the last line I prefer “And he can’t be convinced, to just ONCE try melee”
Your version is still gold – love the song and the smiles you gave me.
If there is no tiebreaker then two servers could contrive a result to tie each other. TC could be allowed the win again in week 8 to generate a 4 point gap to JQ, and they close the gap back to square by TC not turning up in week 9 and finishing 3rd to JQ 1st.
Hmm – I wonder if that might finally be a bit too much ladder manipulation for even Anet to swallow. There is no doubt though that a sharing of the spoils is deserved.
Well the only silver lining is that BG won’t be the only one to see the back end of a serious 2v1 this season. The tactic is out there now and will be getting used on one of the other 2 at some stage.
If the JQTC alliance holds in perfect balance till the very end, and keeps BG and SOS out of things then they can go at it in the final week match off. It does mean that weeks 7 and 8 require some trust because that is where the backstab may be coming if the team that wins week 7 has the strength to win week 8.
If the perfect balance thing does manage to eventuate I don’t see BG sitting back in week 9 and saying you guys decide between yourselves. I am sure we will pick who we want to anoint and who we want to not see appear on any map.
Well in the big tiers we get very good battles on the “nightwatch”. Maybe the issue is that there are too many servers and we should cut the number down to about 60% of what is out there now. Close the bottom 40% and forcibly merge them to even numbers and then open up the free transfers again so that there is no qq about being forced into any particular server. Sounds abrupt but it forces people to take action and responsibility because at the moment it sounds awfully whiny sitting in low pop servers and expecting Anet to """fix""" the whole “world is a revolving globe” thing for you.
It is the low tier servers that suffer night capping and the closer you get T1 the more the issue goes away. Can’t help thinking it would improve competition no end as well and shake up the current seasons which seems already to be looking lopsided everywhere.
You missed the point of the complain. The complain is not the 24/7. the complain is:
The times with the fewest players in the match are the most decisive ones for the match-outcome
And this is of course non-sense. The opposite should be the case.
I am astounded by your logic. The match is only equal numbers if all sides are full. It is unequal if one side is empty. Of course the match is most decisive at that point – as it should be. The game is not designed for you if your team doesn’t show up.
Football is a game of 11 on 11 (soccer if you are from US). Have 2 players sent off or not turn up and it is 11 on 9. That is the most decisive point. Should football amend its’ rules so that if one player gets sent off they play 10 on 10 rather than 11 on 10? That is the basis thrust of your assertions.
Simple solution – organise and don’t play short handed. If you are happy with the organisation and structure of your server then accept the shortcoming, and the endless opportunity to recap all that stuff back in your time zone. If not then try and change it or transfer.
Wow – all this time and people still qq over the fact that it is a 24/7 game. That is just laughable. Please modify your game Anet because I like my server and want to stay here and it is not our fault they are poorly organised and don’t make any attempts to have 24/7 coverage.
You guys have to realise that is the game you are playing and move on. Your power to change it rests with your server choice or your server organisation and not with qq’s to the game owners.
Short story – was kitting my guard with knights and now he is a wvw toon only and was swapping some pieces to clerics.
Is there any way to get value from the old armour. It doesn’t salvage which I think Anet should address. Seeing as we can buy damask and most insignias (not celestial)on TP we should get a chance of salvaging these back rather than have to hang on to the armour as an expensive 60 gold reminder of a poor life choice now repented. Also lets people get some value from weapon boxes of types that they don’t want to use themselves.
The other option would be to try the legendary unbinding trick to try and transfer the knights to my other heavy which is warrior. I could get a little value out of it that way, but not sure if the unbinding trick works on ascended armour – if anyone has tried please let me know.
The points system in WvW seriously needs overhauling. I find it ludicrous that the victor is usually determined by how much coverage a server has during off-peak hours (aka nightcapping). It’s pretty demoralizing when your server is on top during peak hours and holding several T3 keeps only to get home from work the next day to find that all the progress the server made was lost overnight or during working hours simply because they had more players online during that coverage gap. No wonder people play dead, because quite honestly, their contributions mean next to nothing unless they’re willing to play overtime. Basically, which ever server has more Oceanic players will normally win since WvW is won during off-peak hours.
Example: JQ had a lead of up to 4-5k over the weekend and quickly lost that lead once the weekend was over simply because BG had more players to fill in coverage gaps than JQ did.
What you need to finally get over (and eventually I believe you will), is that there is no PEAK TIME. It is a 24/7 game. If you don’t want to have this feeling that your objectives are getting taken while you are away then you need to get your server organised to get BALANCED coverage rather than PEAK coverage. You have hit on the problem – but you are rather confused about the solution. Blaming the points system for being 24/7 is not going to get you a solution. It is going to get you a game that works for your time zone but no-one else’s. So join the world wide web here and start thinking balanced coverage.
Oww – too trusting on anything coming to my mail from Arenanet.
I have 2 accounts from same AP and different email accounts. Did my daily on one and then swapped to the other and promptly got a message saying new IP please authenticate. I opened email but before the authenticate email arrived I saw this other one from Anet. I filled it all out and hit the link to verify. Then up comes Google Chrome or kaspersky saying they had blocked access to known phishing site.
I straight away closed all and logged into my GW account to change the password because I have no idea if they got my data or not.
To be safe I will transfer funds to the other account and let it be the key holder of my stuffz for a while.
same issue here – cannot sell the tonic. I am sure I used it once though so if that soulbound it then I am screwed.
My understanding is that mine came soulbound so of course I used it and the patch removed the words. Still think if they are going to nmake these tradeable then they should be freely tradeable and not just for some people.
Edit – researching on the bug forum indicates that it is possible to unbug the tonics by buying another of the same type and stacking them. If that is correct then I think Anet should fix the issue rather than make me stop all legendary progress to save 250 gold to unstick my tonic and then lose 15% on both tonics in recouping the cost. If the darn things don’t sell then I am well out of pocket. As it is if I could sell this item I would have Bolt inside a fortnight.
Well it was worth money to Anet – I chose to purchase a new character slot as storage and named him Tonic Boon. I just can’t bring myself to throw them away in case they introduce a “Life of the Party” title track in teh future.
I am guessing you are on Eredon Terrace. I suffered the same issue and the fix that I am 3 others used was to change servers (no cost apart from 2 mins – I went to Kaineng), do your skill point, then change back. Whole thing done in under 5 mins as long us you get in before free transfers ends.
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