All Posts by Digna

If folks dont want to do scs..don't queue for them. No, I find them generally enjoyable asside from the bugs associated with the foolish attempt at forced delays rather than true forced round robin. But thats me.

I have an addictive personality. I get got hooked on them from an early age. I suspect it's because I alwasy wanted to play the pen and paper D&D game but within my rural community, I was the only individual who wanted to do so.

Then too I know I can always succeed at games if I try hard enough where  IRL some thing will always escape me.

Thus do I play MMOs.

NCSoft was leaking money like a boat with half a dozen holes in the hull. Garrett had them over a barrel so to speak and was able to mandate terms which lead to him being the 'sole' shot caller for TR. Regretful. I haven't looked at the NCSoft numbers lately but I would suspect they  shook out some of the deadwood while AION was up and coming..let's hope so or I would think NCSoft is going to have very real troubles very quickly.

Yeah I re-rolled on Gorfang about a week ago and the T1s have been popping right along. Same 'stupid' comments from the few numbskulls about 'Oh why do you bother healing, go delete and reroll..you have a level 6 shaman and only healed for 12K..I have a level 2 and heal for 25K'..otherwise the conversation is pretty good there.

I am curious. I've been on 3 servers though only one to T4 (the rest T1-3 depending on the character).

On all the servers (after the initial 2 weeks of game play..I've been in since CE early access) in the last 3-4 weeks it's been Nordenwatch, Mourkain's Temple, Tor Anroc and Serpent's Passage. In t4 I am quite frankly shocked and expected when something other than SP pops. Wondering if it's the same on the other servers? (Sure Troll's crossing and Phoenix gate are a bit more common than the others for but for the t4's, it's averaging 1 odd pop to 15-20 runs of SP)

I know folks who have been in for a month and have never seen Khaine's or Gates of Ekrund. One of my guildies rolled an alt (he was new to MMOs at the beginning) and after the 'Join all' button was put in, he had hit Rank 9 or 10. I asked him his renown rank after I sent him some 'junk' greens around 5-6 and said he probably had better renown gear by that point. He told me that all he had was level 3 gear...I asked what renown rank he was and he told me '0'. After asking what he was doing to get into scenarios, we found that he ws queuing for Khaines only. (Note: this guy only played on and off a couple hours a day at varied hours). Once I requested that he use the 'join all' button he immediately shot up to his max RR but playing Nordenwatch only.

Originally posted by strategy

Again, read my post on MJ on retention and susbcription.

They will NOT merge servers because it would hurt their " image". PR is more important than players for the moment for EA. They financed  the servers, so they will stay for the moment.

Also: they NEED to wait to make a decision after the WotLK and MOM launches, but only God knows how many will leave within a few weeks more. I expect a kind of Tsunami really.

Having a merge of already merged servers would look even worse than it already is. So they'll wait till the beginning of next year to merge servers quietly. And of course by then EA will have bought some other MMO's.

Poor Mythic.

Regretfully, I tend to agree with you. They are allowing to voluntary character transfers to help further depopulate the servers with the terribly low pops to begin with. I am hoping that means that when the transfers are done, they will merge the servers and take whatever flak is left over from the 'non-moving' players. I was surprised when I logged in yesterday and got a 'WARNING: This server is very underpopulated. You can use the Account button [__] here to go to your account management page and move to a more populated server, notice right at the character select window.

I am not going to compare WOW/WAR. I do like WAR a lot. You generally don't have to grind in WAR unless it's for low 10% tome unlock drops.

That said, the way for a WAR character to gain the 'fastest' renown (after 40) is to capture keeps and T4 objectives. Those generally require groups and a modicum of coordination. The most 'common' way to gain renown is to run scenarios and those are poorly done. The queuing mechanism is broken, IMO. Sure I was an 'early' level 40 but when you run Serpent's Passage for the 40th or 50th time..the boredom sets in, whether you win or lose.

IMO, they need some sort of forced round robin for queuing in all tiers and to roll a number of servers up into others (I think they will do the latter but are allowing some of the low population servers to 'volunteer' to move before they force the rest).

One thing I noticed with /ignore is that (for me at least) I m limited to a very small number of names.

When I counted the 'ignored' folks, there were 8 names on the list and then I started getting getting 'You cannot ignore any more people until you remove some from your list'.

8? What is that?

Also, when I /ignored someone, logged off to check an alt then logged back on again, I got a whisper from the same person I /ignored. When I did another /ignore, it said I was no longer ignoring them. The system recognized the name, didn't block it and then removed it completely.

One of my guildies postulated a theory. An /ignore will be pointed in the game database to a specific name, which is associated with a unique ID. If the name is deleted and then recreated, new name but an entirely different ID so you could have someone ignored and yet because the ID is different, the 'link' between your /ignore and the 'new' characters name isn't there.

Originally posted by ParkCarsHere

Originally posted by Nonge

I would LOVE to add my retail key to my account but if I create a new master account it won't let me add my already created game account to it. 

You should already have an account at accounts.eamythic.com, since you said you played the beta.

All you need to do is go in there, log into your account, and click the banner at the top that says "Activate a Key." The account you were logging into during the beta should be your "master account" on the account webpage.

And no. The login account isnt the master. There are 2. One is master and one is game.

Log into master and enter serial key. When you enter the key/billing info there's an option to add a new account or use an existing (the beta which willhave your early access chars in it).

I'm slightly disappointed that Mythic did this but no way I'd choose not to play when I have the free time to do so. There are folks in game a bit like you. Empire NPCs called Crazed Flagellants....

Originally posted by Fireside286

Originally posted by Digna

Originally posted by myrlar

i'm trying to ENTER my key... but i keep getting page errors...

 

Me to. Either the registration server is borked or too many requests are hitting it at once. (Probably the latter). Least you answered my next question that it's not just me.

 

 

I had the same problem but looked on the sub page and it showed I registered the key.  So you might check that even if it gives you a page error.

I was hoping this might be the case but no.

Couple things I noticed.

1. When I first entered my key to be registered, it gave me somewhere along  the way, a place to enter credit card info.

2. When entering my CC, though I am a US player, it gave me 'Province' instead state.

3. When I tried to re-enter my reg key info, the CC info page no longer came up.

4. I went to 'Billing' on the account page and now it shows 'State' versus 'Province'.

Little things? Maybe. But with databes, especially dynamic ones used for registration, even small mixups can make very big borks. :(

Originally posted by myrlar

i'm trying to ENTER my key... but i keep getting page errors...

Me to. Either the registration server is borked or too many requests are hitting it at once. (Probably the latter). Least you answered my next question that it's not just me.

I have my key but tend to agree with you. There was supposed to be a 'reasonable amount of time' to get the keys.

I can see this pissing off a LOT of people. Should have waited at least through the weekend.

Originally posted by Wiglac

Digna, there is this little thing called the rest of the world

And for us that use the Oceania servers, this is indeed prime-time.  Which makes me wonder why have Oceania servers if the downtime schedule is going to be the same as for US based servers.  Also makes me wonder just where the Oceania servers as located.

My apologes. I did not mean to impugn our Oceanic brother-in-arms.

While it hits some us hard because of schedules, 5AM to 9AM EST is hardly prime time.

Edit for typo

4hours... 9AM EST

Originally posted by daylight01

Well I am just going to put on my flame proof jacket before I say...

I hope it doesnt work,ppl try to get hold of a CE and couldnt as ppl like yourselves have ordered 1 with no intention of following it up,I also cant see why companies would allow this sort of practice as it would leave alot of CE copies on the shelf as you would get all the bonuses and not have to pay for it.

/end rant

Let the flamming begin.

This is exactly how I see it for the bulk of people doing this BS. A few probably have mistaken item stock numbers and are getting a shaft from whomever they bought from, but the bulk of people are just scabs trying to get items and save 30 bucks.

I feel for you mate. I understand the down time but hey, I got up at 2AM and am wide awake. Now with 4 hours to go, not a whole hell of a lot to do. Tha's how it goes when you want fresh meat for the grinder.