Agreed. The only reason why we keep having events? To give the impression that L2 is improved and the support staff cares about the users enough to do events. I promise that shortly after this event ends there will be another one.
Reason..? In the past they had a similar event (when in subscription mode) where you could pickup event item at an NPC and it was BOUND. Change these specters to bound or let us pickup these bound items from an NPC so the server doesn't have 1000's of bots farming for 2 hours...
Botters can create whatever lvl toon,so lvl restriction is bad only for legit players.
Make event items not tradeble means that we wont get at the end no reward at all from events,since we all know koreans designed events rewards to be random,most of rewards to be meanless for our lvls and the good ones to require thousands of event items to get them-thousand of event items=poor players sell them for adena,richer players buy them to get the top rewards of event,economy flaws.
All the past years we had so much lag on each event,now with free l2 servers suicide.
Maybe the solution to all these is to elliminate the ammount of accounts that can log each day,creating some kind of priority for the old accounts that used to pay so many years and for the accounts that buy items from store?These items have days expired,we loose everyday hours from their duration.
I vote stop the event untill they find a solution.
I agree with the +40 lvl requirment not the rest tho
Is so fast to reach lvl 50! chars under lvl 50 may not be eligible to do events. So if you are 40 you lvl fast to 50 to have benefits. In less than 12 hours to lvl from40 to 50 (and with all tha NCSoft stuff! weaps, armors, shots potions...)
Yeah under 50 no events is my opinion
i like the event, it give a chance to new players to do something... if they will stop the event, they will show weakness against farmers. Better use the ban hammer, and ban their top lvl bots over and over, and they will lose the interest on starting everytime from 0.
The solution is not to destroy everyone fun (stoping event), solution is to wake up GMs and go in TI near gk, and kick them out of server, you'll see them logging back instantly (3rd party software = ban). There are solutions, but you need to think for them.
This event (grinding fragments) is another reason to lvl doing something which worth. Maybe some of players (who use some IG bots) love to stay in party all night and watching TV while their bot do the job in party. well, i dont like, i want to play like all others and have fun if it's possible.
So, solution is not to close the event, better kick the lvl 1 chars which, is clearly, are made ONLY to farm event. I bet there are thousands of accounts only with lvl 1 characters, ban those, they destroy the game and make issues to all other players. Is not so hard to make a select on database, to see accounts created 3 days ago with chars lvl 1...
You guys that want the event to be ended are fools. This problem is not created by the event, it didn't just happen, the event did nothing to cause it. All the event has done is shown what the problem is. Ending the event solves nothing.
It seems to escape you that if this game had an afk timer, like other games of its type have you would never see this problem. Even the shop guys that buy and sell all day everyday would have to atleast keep checking in with the game. Yes the bots are a problem, no they are not going away anytime soon I fear, everygame like this has to deal with bots now, there has been some massive movement of bots across games that seemed to have started about year ago, atleast that is when I noticed it.
We didn't used to have rupee seller(rappelz =to adena) in Rappelz, we didn't used to have people getting hacked all the time. It was just as recent as last year that this started to be a real problem. Hell, in Rappelz we even have the fun of finding out one of our friends, one of our guildmates have been hacked when they sundenly leave the guild and are then seen standing naked in town spaming for a rupee selling site.
The point is none of this has been cause by an event that has not even run for a week yet, this was a problem years ago. I for one am on Bartz and have enjoyed the event so far, but I feel your pain, the servers on rappelz had a month when the server I played on crashed every other day. I know what is like, and it sucks. Rappelz made up for by giving exp and drop boosts to the servers effected by it.