Okay folks, it's Lyzira's turn! You've seen a lot of her in the last few weeks here on the forums, but now you can ask her questions that you're really wanting answers to.
Please limit this thread to questions only; no discussions! Make sure that all questions are appropriate and on topic. Irrelevant personal questions will not be answered. Try not to ask the same questions that have already been asked.
We will select some of the best questions asked and ask them in addition to some of our own.
When a new update is on the horizon, will this website offer up the translations of what is being considered for live play? At the moment, we are getting this information from other players who can translate the Korean on other websites. It would be nice to have it here, as well, updated as the new skills/options are made and altered.
1)Do you have any plans to implement to the site lineage2.com same things like: http://power.plaync.co.kr http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/aion ?
2)What type of events do you prefer: vitality events, collecting events(collect N items and exchange it for item), real money events(spring korean event "White Day event'), fun events?
1 Plz, provide us some more pics of your working area (and maybe yourself?)
2 Describe your working day plz.
3 Do you read all the posts on the forum or just some? What do you feel when you read them? Do you have favorite\uloved posters yet? Could you name them?
Do we will ever get "Live-GMs" again that KNOW the game and can give accurate answers to our questions in the game? (If I have an urgent need of one, like a mob in 4s stuck in the wall and we cant coninue)
1) When are the GM's going to patrol a few areas (30minutes, 1 hour / day ) and ban all the bot trains they see ?
At the moment GM's seem to wait for us to report, then we get the standard reply that they need definite proof !
So , instead of doing that, when are you going to start doing your job and patrol the areas yourselves and in the process gather all the evidence you need and ban the bots ?
2) As other people have said, there are not that many paid customers left in L2, you guys don't develop, so what are you doing all day long that serves us the remaining paying customers ?
Is it part of the L2 fun factors that legit players should be picked on and bullied by the large number of cheaters (mostly russian griefers who bot up to 82+) easily you reckon?
Do you have any plans for x2 rates weekends to make game more casual for palyers like on some regional departments of NCSoft?
Do you have any plans for improving vitality system to lvl 8 (500%) or lvl 10 (600%), as a way to make the grinding easy to real players ?
From what i seen only those guys booting 24/7 can get to lvl 82+.
With a vitality system going lvl 10 (600%), and even with the regen vitality last several days to get max would be a good way to help balance the game for real players.
you play a WL and still think only botters can make it to 82?
i know a lvl 82 WL that is still making over 1% an hour killing blue mobs with zero vitality
Why isn't the report a bot button working as well as the user base had hoped? Is there a behind the scenes problem or something else going on that is keeping this functionality from being fully utilized?
Given the resource limits at NcSoft West, why are you not reaching out to the community and asking for some help with the website, content, support so we can get our site looking / functioning as well as the other sites NcSoft runs? What is the real hold up on this when in reality, NcSoft should be sharing the web programmers and information between the different areas of the company with only localization efforts being different.
Why, when they were so popular, have we not had any 2x exp, 2x drop events in Lineage 2 as we did all the time in Lineage 1?
What is holding up the extra Korean services from coming to our local? Moving toons between accounts on the same master, etc....
And again, welcome and thank you for your time here!
1)Is it possible to get more informations about the next update by the Official Website ?
I mean we could have a lot of informations with websites like L2Blah or Ellie Belly, but It seems that the NCsoft policy is to say nothing about that ?
2)The Vitamin Manager is a NPC who gives Items bought with Real Money in Korea, how this service will be apply on NC Us Servers ?
3) Could you post Large Photo of your office and NC West Building (Inside and Outside ^^) (if It's not too personnal)
you play a WL and still think only botters can make it to 82?
i know a lvl 82 WL that is still making over 1% an hour killing blue mobs with zero vitality
i agree with naruto, vitally 8 is welcome, personally i stop to play at 78 and who exp for 1 hour with blue i think it's no normal and should go to some doctor
As far as I know 3rd party programmes are not allowed,for example walker snifer, and this is reason for ban.
What is the diference with the l2randar and still there is people using it and not banned?
1. What are the hours for developers and staff at NCSoft West? Do you have a 2nd or 3rd shift?
2. What does a typical work day for you consist of?
3. Do you think that the bot report button is an effective tool for players to use?
4. Considering that GM's post so infrequently, what other ways do you relate or stay in touch with your customer base?
5. Just what is it that NCSoft West can and cannot do when it comes to events and/or content modification? Do you have any ability to edit the code beyond text changes?
6. Why does NCSoft West persist in making events with horrible drop rates even though the playerbase has been consistently against this for years now?
7. Why can you not post the character names of people that are banned from the game? It is my understanding that NCSoft owns all characters and we just pay for access. Is there some legal reason why it's not done?
Now that I've posted some of the hard questions that you guys avoid and probably won't get answered, here are some kiddie ones that you guys love to take in lieu of anything really useful:
1. Do GM's join clans? If you could...is there a clan you'd like to join?
2. Why do you like kittens so much?
3. Which character is more androgynous, the Kamael male or the Elf male?
4. Is it possible to have a tranformation event like in Lineage 1?
5. In your opinion, who is the most useful poster: Bel, Spudnik, or SneezingTiger?
6. Of those same three, who is the biggest waste of space?
3.Is it possible for female dwarfs to be any cuter?
These are the questions that i would really like the answer cause they are most important to me.
Maybe i could try to answer them for you and save you the ink.
1. That is a very good question! I will pass it along and the team will get back to you!
2. Actually we are looking into that as we speak!
3. LoL! Thank you! Don't forget though...we are very busy!
Will you consider the music side of Lineage II and swapping certain tracks for certain areas as appropiate?
I would really love just some consideration to moving these two tracks mentioned in my thread - as what I call signature music to Lineage. They never heard by people anymore for the reasons in that thread.
Since the cost of about everything else in the world has increased significantly in the last five years, how have you managed to never have a price increase in the Lineage2 subscription rates?
I will prefer to stick with questions that are more of your domain Lyzira.
1) Why the website is so slowly updated? Community screamed about this and by the time it was updated, it was already outdated (i.e. skills were never corectly updated). Website is a game's front window. Providing outdated information is not the best advertisement.
2) Although I am very critical towards NC concerning their response to customer needs, I have to admit that all updates from Kamael and on are good and show a trend to balance the game. Many things suggested are being implemented (although at really late stage of the game). The thing that you need to relay towards central is the playerbase demand to fight illegal players. Professional farmers is not so much of a problem compared to the live players that use illegal means, either to level or to pvp. How commited are you to make Korean central that this a strong playerbase demand?
We have asked for years for Dwarfs to get a Festival sweep and are led to belive we were heard but none as of yet! Can this be implemented. One more question is how about lolly pops again an repeat some of the old events like Raid Bosses and mobs spawning and passing out driops. Those were great.
We have asked for years for Dwarfs to get a Festival sweep and are led to belive we were heard but none as of yet! Can this be implemented. One more question is how about lolly pops again an repeat some of the old events like Raid Bosses and mobs spawning and passing out driops. Those were great.
Not only that, but also repeat Real life meet and greats
and please some in europe too
and in preference with the original korean developpers
so we can share our findings with the people who have end line
decisions
When is a korean developper comming to usa to back up the team ?
Does the "report bot" button in game actually works ?
The reason I am asking is because I report groups of bots every time I can and they still in those spots for several days, or even weeks 24x7 non-stop.
1) Why the website is so slowly updated? Community screamed about this and by the time it was updated, it was already outdated (i.e. skills were never corectly updated). Website is a game's front window. Providing outdated information is not the best advertisement.
That was another question I had on mind.
+1 for that question.
Are outdated skills on characters going to be replaced by something more useful and class specific?
Example: Drain Health skill on Bladedancer. The effect of it is quite insignificant on higher lvls.
Is there a plan to add more quests like Pailaka, increase rewards and add more interesting and fun to do quest?
Are we going to get more vitality-replenishing events ^^ (mmm...love the lolipops)
1) With GMs' bad reputation amongst players (mainly being ignorant about the game they support, and generally unhelpful 99% of the time), is there anything that will be done to restore our confidence in them?
2) How does NCSoft, which produces more than several MMO games, manage to distribute resources on each game? Is there not a conflict of interest, especially when the economy is down right now and budgets probably lowered because of that.
3) It seems that with the initial launch of Tabula Rasa, L2's resources (manpower) were 'borrowed' and as a result we have the website being outdated for a long period of time. Now, with the upcoming launch of Aion, how do we know that it won't happen again? Even without the launch of a new game, we've seen inactivity amongst the NCSoft team, with the website *still* outdated by 8+ months.
4) Why are some of the Korean events and services not reproduced over here? The code exists already.
5) Class balance issues. Will the devs ever realise that damage dealing classes are too loved?
I was wondering if there are any upcoming changes to balance the desirability of classes in raids, sieges, and xp parties.
Right now it seems every party (xp, raid, and siege) always wants a bladedancer, swordsinger, and a healer. But it doesn't seem to matter if one of the mage classes is present or not.
Just wondering whats on the horizon that will make mages (such as my sorcerer) to be seen as useful as other classes.
ok, this is a fun question so dont flame me plz:
if a lineage2 day is 4 hours your characters birthday is once a real life year does that mean a lineage 2 year has 2190 days ? :D
ok, this is a fun question so dont flame me plz:
if a lineage2 day is 4 hours your characters birthday is once a real life year does that mean a lineage 2 year has 2190 days ? :D
GOOOD POINT!!!!!!!!!!! +10000!!!!
Make a birthday 1\365 days according to lineage 2 day counting! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well ... According to hardfull way to get an account on one hand and my incredible lazyness on the other .. i post my 1rst post there or almost... (even everyone does not care on that)
Lyzira : what about fan sites relationships ?
What do you, as CM team, think about all contests and events we all (as fan sites) plan to give fun around L2 universe ?
and more than that
Why don't you even get one massive communication campaign to fight Blizzard's blockbuster's one ?
I think a lot of us would love to see our game EVERYwhere like this WoW thing is....
Why has the Lineage 2 team not been able (after 5 years) to set
this product on a solid law base to efficiently ban bots?
There have been several instances, I heard of, where people got
unbanned after sueing NCSoft. What is the problem there?
1) With GMs' bad reputation amongst players (mainly being ignorant about the game they support, and generally unhelpful 99% of the time), is there anything that will be done to restore our confidence in them?
YES ANSWER THIS QUESTION PLEASE!!! I for my self have several screenshots of petitions where gms (automated i suppose) answer complete nonsense, or not even proper english
I was wondering somthing totally diffirent actually
about the bases of the game
Originally everything is developped in korea right ?
so the development team in america/europe only translates
the korean game , with mild adaptation, so far i think that's correct.
But i think the adaptation should be pushed even further
in korea they dont have to deal with time zones
and even if it wasnt for the time zones, some things should be made a more arround the clock, or stretched.
I think of al lthe people who do night work for a good example.
They can never do the olympiads, or they would have to do it during their vacations only, that's a bit , dishonoring, for poeple who do jobs that
otherwise no one else would do...
Same things for people who do weekend jobs, i really think that should be
brought much much more into consideration in times for Olympiads, sieges
and more of such time bound events, if u broaden it by lets say 3 hours more before, 3 hours more after, i think even 2 hours should do fine
then u got a large enough time front for everyone, even for all those
hardworking players who never get their chances otherwise...
And maybe secondly
just a footnote
for Olympiad:
Make it so that when u enter olympiad all u wear will be olympiad clothes
so that gear can no longer be a factor in winning
only u'r own talent of using the toon correctly and efficiently
True skill, not like now wherethe biggest adena buyers win with their
overenchanted S-grade gears
I think this would make olympiad truly interesting to see then...
Here are some questions of mine that I hope to get answers to:
About the game:
Q1: Why is it that during some hours it is cheaper to port with gate keepers then other times, any perticular reason?
Seems abit unfair in my opinion due to the fact that there is alot of Euro/World players on US servers that does not benefit from it because it's in the middle of the night for us.
Why not change the charge cost completely by either charging chars by grade/level or making them pay adena for a monthly free porting ticket.
Or option two, set the porting costs to static fixed rates like:
1000 to port to close hunting ground, 2000 to port to far hunting ground 5000 to port to close villige and make the port point function in actions work?
So that you don't have to spend for example 73k to going from goddard to gludio that would cost only Goddard - Aden - Giran - Dion - Gludio = 20k, many people are forced to pay extra for not wanting to have to click 10 times and load 4 town textures and NPC's with all latency there is and with the risk of getting disconnected from the game or even get a texture loading crash.
Is this something that you would consider changing?
Q2: One other thing about porting is that if you main char is a light elf and you SOE in drak elves territory you end up in light elves villige and the other way around with dark elves ending up in home town and that is not all it carries over on your sub even if you have a human orc or dwarf sub.
This is a very annoying thing both quest wise and exp wise.
Let me give you an exampel you port a a light elf skined human subbed dagger to dark elves village and port to dark forrest and go down to dark omen catacombe to exp and then you need to restock so you soe out where do you end upyes that is right light elf villige so you grab you stuff from warehouse and take GK to Gludio port by dawn/dusk priest or port to dark elves villige and to dark forrest again and down to DO cata again. And if dark elves and light elves have so much against eachother why does the first pathquests concists of visiting the otherone's villige and performing tasks for them, makes no sence.
This is not a big thing but it's quite annoying, any plans on changing this?
Q3: Why is there such a big a buffert zone on the vitalitybar between level 0 and level 1?
When you get a Vitality herb as a slow mob killing class it takes you about 4 minutes to get it up to level 1 then you have 1 minutes to raise the level on level one which usually means less then 5 mobs.
I think it seems a little unbalanced because a nuker class that can kill mobs and raise it's level from 0 to 1 in under a 1 minute, they have 4 minutes to raise the vitality on level one.
Any plans on removing the buffert zone between level 0 - 1 or balancing it between the classes better?
About GM support:
Q4: Why does it seem that the first line ingame support have no clue about anything concerning the game?
What I mean is that 4/5 times you get a automated message saying please consult the L2 community websites and NCsoft support forums for your answer.
Only problem is i take that as a laugh or slap in my face everytime because don't you think a experienced L2 player that knows the game probably better then the first line support would use petitioning as a last resort?
I mean if I've searched all the forums and websites for the answer and it's not there what would you do if you contact a support service and you get a automated answer to do what you just have done and then they hang up on you!
What would you say about that?
About Server maintenance:
Q5: Why is there not any information about what's gonna be changed over the maintenance on thuesdays on the webpage?
And why does it often take till after the maintenance to read about that there is going to be a maintenance today either in the L2 forum - News & Announcements or on the webpage News - Server maintenance - Current status?
About Lineage 2 website:
Q6: Why is the contents of the website so poorly updated and have faulty/inaccurate information?
I mean there are ppl running around with Vesper weapons but yet on the website in the weapon section there isen't any specifications on any Vesper weapons.
The same goes for the skills section if you choose any character/class and click on their 80+ skills there is not a single one that has the correct information.
And by the time the page has been updated there is a new patch update/chronicle out that has changed alot of things in the game so the information on the website is old.
To me it seems like a days work for one person to correct and update these to things.
Are we gonna see an update of the information on the website in the near future, before the release of Gracia+?
About the game client:
Q7: Is there someone in the Developer team that is working on the issue with the interface resetting itself everytime you restart your client and not saving the ingame window positions?
Q8: Will we ever see the disable system tutorial checkbox in game options again?
Thank you Lyzira, for giving a **** about this game and listening to us "The Players" that love this game so very much!
VaiyaHere are some questions of mine that I hope to get answers to:
About the game:
Q1: Why is it that during some hours it is cheaper to port with gate keepers then other times, any perticular reason?
Seems abit unfair in my opinion due to the fact that there is alot of Euro/World players on US servers that does not benefit from it because it's in the middle of the night for us.
Why not change the charge cost completely by either charging chars by grade/level or making them pay adena for a monthly free porting ticket.
Or option two, set the porting costs to static fixed rates like:
1000 to port to close hunting ground, 2000 to port to far hunting ground 5000 to port to close villige and make the port point function in actions work?
So that you don't have to spend for example 73k to going from goddard to gludio that would cost only Goddard - Aden - Giran - Dion - Gludio = 20k many ppl are forced to pay extra for not wanting to have to click 10 times and load 4 town textures and NPC's with all latency there is and with the risk of getting disconnected from the game or even get a texture loading crash.
Is this something that you would consider changing?
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Ok so port costs are higher at american night time
that 's to encourage players to actually go "sleep" when porting
becomes more expensive
off course this doest work at all
some people will actually prefer to "run" to their hunt grounds
or even pay more if they have to
but surely wont help people to go say, ow ports are higher cost
it's time to go to bed...
so yes, abolish that
why ports are so expensive ? port monney goes to castle owners
and since they dun get much from al lthe noble people, they got to get
it from those poor poor poor low toons...
free port should get expanded till lvl 52 instead of 40 now
so people can actually afford B-grade whe nthey hit B grade...
American and asian vieuws on the matters differ a lot
it's a cultural opinion conflict
In korea they have a hell of a lot more players then here
and mostly its class mates and so on
they really know each other
while we play wiht people that live miles across the planet
makes us the world people that look beyond our own little country:p
Surely will need to work on cultural diffirences in the game
to crick them up to american and european standards
we're kinda not so helping each other ... at all
more like , everyone for themselves
Outside a few that really help each other in clan
for most people on american servers its the next rule:
do it urself or get busted
Thanks for participating and submitting so many great questions. Lyzira will be going through these and choosing which questions she can best answer. She will post a new thread when she has them all answered.