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Lots of interesting questions very few interesting answers, we had its turkey day as an excuse to stall for a week, there should have been solutions not were looking into that.
What did they manage of the desperate week of damage control…new hair styles and more things in the cash sink.
Ill continue to play but the credit card stays in the wallet till there are inprovements in communication and fixes to the mistakes already made.
“Once within the court, their converts are forced to commit dreadful acts that destroy every last ounce of virtue they may have left.”
So what is virtue?
temperance:
prudence:
courage:
justice:
and most would add love
The story lines follow this, join me my love, quickly becomes if i cant have you then die. The nightmare court kidnaps tortures murders and forces others along the same path removing any choice.
Infitrate the nightmare court and look at the choices set packs of hounds on frightened saplings and kick puppies. Though there may be some member who are not yet completely evil the essence of the court is.
After the reset i got a message i havent seen for months, bags full. Ok it was greens blues whites and trash but after months of filling the first two bags if i was lucky it made me realise how little now dropped even of junk.
I have the sad feeling that like others my DR reset with the servers the flood of items worth 1s will end and i will continue to be punished for logging in each day for the daily.
Just shows that ANet are hell bend on making people run fractals….sighhhhh.
Strange seeing i though Anet said they made a mistake forcing people into fractals then turn around and add to the problem of the empty world with the monthly
Can i have it both ways?
I want people to enjoy the game to keep the population up in a game where 90% of the time i enjoy my self.
I want people to be happy because lets face it spending your time in game with happy people is better than spending your time in a group session at a depresion clinic.
I also admit i am happy when people are unhappy about the things in game i think need fixing because if others see the same problems i do perhaps they will be fixed.
“Hey guys,
Just a quick update on where the whole scavenger hunt system stands since I know that’s a topic many of you have brought up recently. We’re not currently actively working on building any sort of legendary precursor scavenger hunt, this is something we want to do in the future and we’re in the midst of designing how this would function, but no one is actively building this feature and you should not expect in the Jan/Feb/March releases at this point.
ColinJohanson"
2013/01/11 03:47:01 PM
Because something is taking a long time you assume it must be good?
Once aboard the Titanic
First mate: The repairs seem to be taking a long time
Captain: they must be doing a great job.
I have one toon my guardian that i want equiped in the “best” because he is the one i do group/guild things with and people will be relying on me.
The 80 ranger is in exotics and will probably stay that way.
The 80 thief is in almost full exotics and will get round to it
the others arent 80 but 8 slots 7 alts all can play the game all i can have fun on if this was any other game would people expect to be able to raid gear all their alts?
Play alts for fun and a bit of a break in play style dont try to have 8 mains you just make a game into work
Lol, thanks for the laugh for a minute there i thought OMG the Tea partys learned to type
I love how all the other classes come to our forum with constructive helpfull ideas to improve thieves
There’s no realism with rangers……we should have to spend years training pets to follow us around and obey commands!
Then rangers are totally realistic, i havent spent years training my pet. As a result it mauls random strangers, runs off, gets lost following me and when it does seem to obey takes a week to do so.
So the fix for rangers would be pets slightly brighter than a bush.
The fix for engineers a turret with twin chain guns and a missile launcher rather than a spit ball gun.
The fix for warriors an alt so they realise how “insane” their Pve specs are so they are prepared when the axe falls.
Economists neither sleep nor leave, I was never gone, I just require interesting posts
This explains so much, all this time in Orr we thought they were zombies.
“More come”
Arrg nooooo its the Economists
From personal observation, the average people obtain their token is on the 15th try (between 10 and 20.) .
Observation is a tricky thing, most people get it wrong
Odds that you will die this year from a shark attack: 1 in 300 million
Odds of dying from being bitten by a dog: 1 in 700,000
Yet people would pat a dog but not a shark.
I personally think that the old cities were better looking and a lot more appealing than what we have now.
The grass is always greener on the other side. Whatever someone doesn’t have, they think it’s better than what they do have.
Doesnt really apply when you have had both, i played Beta and play the game, i enjoyed the Beta more.
Questions:
A: In the category plants do you count alge, considering the amout of open water in tyria they probably out number the other plants.
B: What particular plant were you smoking at the time to make you think of this question.
Short answer most people are kitten “scociety” forces them to moderate their natural behavior into some thing that doesnt get the crap beaten out of them 5 minutes after they walk out the door.
On line there is a limited ability to modify their behavior you see them as they are jerks that would rather kitten off a group because their run time is 0.005 milliseconds below optimal and waste 20minutes getting a new one .
(I’m particularly fond of the fire rabbit death animation where it looks like its trying to put out the fire with its paws). I’m probably a horrible person because of it, but oh well.
I have to admit the first time i fire balled a bunny buy mistake ( really i was aiming for the Minotaur ) it was OMG its burning but it gets easier after your first.
I do wonder why people conect the problem with guesting, there are only so many toons going after a chest if 50 people find the timing on TC is better than SOR im sure there would be 50 people on TC rather than wait head for SOR
The same number of people are doing the event they just time shift when and where they do it to add convienience.
All that means is people arent waiting, what seems to be the rub is people after so long of “bad” loot think the only way/ easiest way to get items is event chests so while 50 people would turn up for a Jormag that droped blues and greens 500 people want to be there for a Jormag that drops 1-3 rares.
i would argue rather than a degressive random chance the game has a recessive random element. If i kill a mob or run an event or event chain i have x chance of loot, due to diminishing returns if i keep running the event each time i presumably ( because no one will actualy say what the DR is doing ) have less chance. The idea of the more you play the less we reward you is just crazy.
Ever seen a Quaggan wearing pants?
I wouldnt even mind so much if they ran away invun and stayed away the pain is the WWF tag team A get to 10% goes invun runs away regens then comes back at me while B keeps me pinned on the ropes
If you have all the other parts and 600g in the bank why not.
Dont by the precourser then realise you need that 600g for t6 mats stones etc, you may well get a lucky drop grinding out those you might find the price goes down there are more for sale now than there was, you might descide on a new main and get some thing else or OMG they migh introduce the scavanger hunt and you can earn one for free
“Imo the real reason is, as unpopular as it is, people just want to look pretty, 80% of the population are human female.”
Char are pretty
My solution to the citadel problem was take 30 minutes and dedicate it to getting every way point, picked up the vistas as i went now its a mater of point click im there.
Due to a lack of response on the part of Anet about the Disconnect/Overflow server issues, I’ve gotten to the point where I just don’t care to play anymore. …….
This could have been spun into a PR positive by giving more updates and a very quick response, as well as giving out world-wide rewards to everyone. Imagine if, as a kind of apology gift, they gave every one who logged in during the event 100 free gems, or a BLTC key, or a Consortium Chest? Then, on top of that they spend all day Monday figuring out how to “make right” ……
the more I am finding my desire to continue on in Tyria is waning. This is just my opinion of course, and I offer it in the hopes that someone on the Anet team will readIn the end, I feel disappointed.
Anet is not a bad company, but they are not showing themselves to be great company either. Honestly, I play these games for fun, and I have gotten a lot out of this particular title… but as the time passes without a reply or any sort of real solution offered… .
BL hit all the points and said it better than i could have i wonder what happened to the wonderfull comunication that happened during beta Anet just seems to be becoming a different company from the one i knew.
communication is key lets face it it was the biggest disater in the short history of the game and we get one short half comment. That implies two things either despite the feed back Anet dont think they dropped the ball last weekend or they think if they ignore the complaining customers they will go away, well sad thing for the game they will.
Have ramparts protect the guy on the wall rather than blocking the defender while aoe fire balls sail over it like the swallows returning to Capastrano.
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I feel like you still don’t understand inflation in an MMO economy. Inflation will only occur when gold taps outpace gold sinks. Players farming more is offset by players buying these “luxury” items at a higher cost (more listing fees). Rising prices of luxury goods will NOT cause inflation. You can argue until your face is blue, but you’ll be still wrong.
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Yup many of us dont understand
We are for the large part MMO grunts not MMO economists
Our understanding is on the level of i killed 100 skrit yesterday and could afford 10 golden sheep with the drops today i kill 100 and can only afford one sheep what happened.
If you could explain one thing it would help me and perhaps others. Sorry to use a RL example but well its what i know. House prices in my area are 50% over what they were 5 years ago while inflation has been very low.
I see much the same with legendarys ok there is no "inflation " in the economy what do you call it when one section of an economy takes of like Usain Bolt with a habanero in his shorts while the rest of it is stable perhaps if we were all using the same terms people would be less confused.
I want to play what hes playing cause it sure the kitten isnt the GW2 i have.
A plan to release content every month that led to rushed half finished crap that pissed of a large section of your player base.
response “we wont do it again”
what happens new content for christmas new content january new content febuary
how much of this is going to be incomplete and broken, when are the fixes coming for the content we have now?
It was garbage and it really feels like the overall nerf to quickness was done because of time warp and the CoF farm. So that they could prevent the easy grinding of money and gear. This would nerf ectoplasm gain as well from CoF token exchanges.
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If it was a change because of CoF farming they should have left rangers out the change, they never get invited to dungeouns
How do you guys know that you hit the DR limit?
You see the xp / karma when you kill a mob / finish event change drasticly at a precise time?
At log in
Account bound LOL looks like anet worked out a lot of people, like me dont buy the chests during “special” events just wait for things to flood the TP and pick up what you want for a few silver. Now the skins are black lion toilet only
I tossed enough gold down the mystic tiolet in hope of a precourser no way i am going to waste money on a miniscule chance to get a skin from a box.
Big +1 for the auto switch idea there are items i would buy but then i think ok how many times would i actually bother to swap when i hit town
I read that official post and all I could think of was the old saying “the checks in the mail.”
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The sorry some people didnt get to loot doesnt cut it, Anet needs to realise it dropped the ball big time and make sure the comunity knows they realise it.
Its not just dc’s during the event.
Its the idea of having a free play during a major event then not having the hardware to handle it.
Its the idea of having an event aimed at a percentage of the player base and telling the rest of the comunity “you dont live in the US we dont care”
Its the idea of haveing an event with huge disparity from normal loot and allowing some people to run it multiple times.
Its about pulling the plug on people who with help from kind guildies managed to get an invite to the event then wer not allowed to complete it.
Yes i would love the bag and the amulet i would certainly love a chest with a few gold items or a chance at Dusk but what i really would love is for Anet to state
“yes we stuffed up on multiple levels with this event, we offer a whole harted and abject appology to our loyal community, we will learn from our mistakes this time and will not repeat them”
Like so many questions statements on builds we are missing WHEN, pve,pvp,w3 dungeons?
Pve i love sword dagger does it do .005% more or less damage than another build who gives a kitten its just fun.
Yes if im running a group i swap out for horn or if im going to be knee deep in mobs i go torch.
If your enjoying your self ( and your not killing everyone in the group )your playing it right
Today I decided to farm a bit in Frostgorge while I was waiting for the Claw to appear. I roamed all over the northern area of Frostgorge killing all kinds of stuff as I went about. Funny thing is I droped at total of 60 large and 10 vicious claws. After the event I moved to WVW and what do you know……more claws. Pretty crazy. RNG is like a box of chocolates. I only whish I had such luck with the mystic forge.
Lol carefull what you wish for…4 exotic GS …zoromos rewards you with ..a large claw
Ones who spend large amounts of cash to buy gems to convert to gold to buy ectos?
Thanks for the reply Ursan i do understand “inflation” as a term what i am missing is the term for a single item break out. As Eolirin pointed out the market as a whole is not inflated just a few items or sections of it.
The non economists here have been calling this inflation which is incorrect if we had the correct term we could avoid some of the angst and allow us to get the conversation on a more productive track.
The presents inside the box work the same way that resource nodes do. Everyone can loot them. The major difference is that they disappear shortly after they appear. This may lend to the perception that someone else has taken the present, but I can assure that this has not actually happened.
The trick or treat bags that came out of the haunted doors worked the same way, but no one complained because those doors were prone to zerging.
Is it possible to extend the time a little i found quite a few times by the time i had beaten down the toy zerg the present had gone, not a lot of people round late at night to help out and not a lot of people interested in a tough fight for an old sock as a reward, if i wasnt saving for the toy sword i probably would leave them as well.
Things people worry about but then ignore the obvious.
I play a “male” sylvari who it appears pollinates as he runs, based on that during a short trip across a zone last night i pollinated “had sex” with 4 or 5 assura a charr serveral lizards a number of flowers and possibly a passing bear.
What would worry me more than the sex of another Sylvari is that we share the same mother.
Strange MMO’s are like life, at the begining you can do every thing but dont know how at 80 you know how but cant do it
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Lol there are no arrogant Charr, I am the owner/slave to, two cats which does colour my view a little but based on that experience Charr confidence would be beyond arrogant and accelerating.
We are talking of a race that said Gods who needs them then did something about it.
Besides a Norn would never say "protective armour is for sissies” too many syllables
Probably should have opened the ticket before opening and selling the items you found after getting your account back.
Ok games are a different set of laws but i was thinking hey my car was stolen got it back there was all this stuff in the boot that wasnt mine so i sold it.
How to turn off titles?
look at the back of your computer, you will see a cord ( usually black) extending from the computer to the wall.
Remove the cable, no more titles.
So pistol whip, backstab, signets now stealth needs to be nerfed, is there any thing else.
Will people not be happy with the state of the Thief till they can auto attack them to death while afk? Lets rename the class the Practice dummy.
what would have been nice to know that fractals would be required before spending 3 weeks making two thirds of an item.
all the useless foxfires and gated mats made from junk sitting round in the bank i could have sold off for a nice pile of gold. Now i have some thing that looks like a particularly agresive melanoma. thank goodness i checked dulfy for the recipe for the third stage before i wasted even more time and gold.
If only there was an alternative, make fractals the “quick” way for those that like them and give those that would contemplate root canal as a better way to spend an afternoon a alternative, say 25 exotic essences .
Choice makes customers happy, social engineering to push people into things they do not enjoy does not.
Sad to see after being away from gw2 for a while the “no soup for you” attitude is still alive and strong.
Good WvW play requires determination and creativity keep trying, alternative suggstion below in the mean time i will try cutting holes here and fax them to you.