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Finally some good top items cheap,. Carebears running out of excuses to not pvp now. Scripts gone, leveling is a lot easier, and everyone in ncwest should have a dark weapon in the next few months.
Finally dark/bloody weapon going mainstream, Why not reduce the price of tauti fragment to 50-100 as well this way enchanted tauti can be had at a reasonable price?
I already foresee parties of the type.
"Dimensional Warp + save VP. :rolleyes:
As? If there are a lot of cheap players to the point of not spending their respective party cakes or vitality maintaining potions? Or do they think they'll sit there and dm waiting for the right time to get up and hit.
How I hate these new players with a new mindset, full of frills, honestly.
I already foresee parties of the type.
"Dimensional Warp + save VP. :rolleyes:
As? If there are a lot of cheap players to the point of not spending their respective party cakes or vitality maintaining potions? Or do they think they'll sit there and dm waiting for the right time to get up and hit.
How I hate these new players with a new mindset, full of frills, honestly.
I doubt someone will actually XP in DW even after update xp boost because mobs are 102 and people after 102 will go exp somewhere else (factions, talismans, not annoying jumps/pauses/disconnects/bugs), and DW will be just for buff books (stage 1 codexes got solved) and bracelet.
I personally didnt use single XP boost item from compensation or any "free" item they gave, somehow I lost old grind-for-win mood long time ago.
Finally some good top items cheap,. Carebears running out of excuses to not pvp now. Scripts gone, leveling is a lot easier, and everyone in ncwest should have a dark weapon in the next few months.
Learn to Math.
Nothing about this is cheap. Either in Adena or USD.
I think people are saying they're more accessible because they can be RMT'd with less money, but that's still $900-1,000 of non-Gift purchases from the L2Store. Even if you put a 25% discount to account for "Bonus Hero Coin," that is still excessive for one item that will not turn a Carebear toon into a PvP-geared character. Even if you split this up over 12 months (not sure such a plan serves any use, since you will be even further behind by the time you can get it), the price is excessive for a F2P game. You're basically paying the equivalent of a Cell Phone bill to NCSoft monthly, for one item that still costs a ton to apply and may fail if you don't have a Blessed Weapon (how much does it cost to Bless an R99 weapon?).
Last time I checked, 1 NCoin was about 950K Adena. I think 1,000 HC is about 40K NCoin worth of non-gift purchases on the account. That's about 38B Adena. Even if you buy NCoin to sell tradeable items in game, the cost is still excessive, and you will always sell at a loss this way (i.e. throwing potentially $1-200 away).
Gear disparity between the PvPers and PvErs goes way beyond "do you have a PvP weapon." The average carebear would have to RMT [multiple] THOUSANDS of dollars worth of Adena just to catch up in gear, and they'll still need the levels to get competitive.
Finally won't phase the "Carebears" who simply aren't interested in being hardcore PvPers. Those people will get Bloody Stones and move on with their lives. They want to kill MOBs, not players - at least not outside of Seiges and other events that make it an objective. You will still be crying about the lack of PvP "competition." The Bloody Stones are even cheaper, and thus more economical for these people.
NCSoft is the reason why the game is like this. No level cap means that PvE players never reach a point where they are "done" leveling, so there is very little reason for them to look for an alternative way to spend their in-game time.
IMO, they should have just kept the max level at 99 or 100, and made Castle Sieges weekly thing while focusing on things like Group Olympiad, etc. I also think a level based matching system would be useful for Olympiad (would definitely get more people to play it). Don't match players with a level different > 2; and make it so that equipment cannot be changed once you've entered the instance.
If you actually want competitive servers and for players to be more into PvP, then you need to provide suggestions that make sense. Not just suggestions to change things that butthurt you when things don't go your way (clicking wars, and other nonsense) ;-)
i personally don't see this changing anything the 90% who cheated their way to over 103 by what ever means benefit . The lower legit players who cant spend as much lose again . instead of trying to balance the game i just see this update as another missed chance to redress the balance . cry all you want on the forums and in game . get used to it in l2 cheating paid off and won . me personally i will happily carry on doing my own thing. but please stop crying if you have+16 gear and dragon weapons that no one will pvp you any normal player will lose every time against pvp geared op players . u want pvp get some normal gear and fight normal players lol
I love the Mystic Soul Crystal and Dark Amar Stone price changes, totally makes those cheap now. I'd be ****** if I bought a 3rd SA soul crystal in the last month tho.... lol
I wish they added some other means to get Dark Eternal Stones tho. Gainak is the worst game mechanic for that. Oly, CoC, some other pvp based event should be able to have them as rewards aside from gainak.
Maintenance was scheduled to end 15 Minutes from the time of this post.
There are still some outstanding issue with applying the build to live we are currently trouble shooting. Maintenance will be extended 1-2 hours later than expected.
Maintenance was scheduled to end 15 Minutes from the time of this post.
There are still some outstanding issue with applying the build to live we are currently trouble shooting. Maintenance will be extended 1-2 hours later than expected.
Thank You.
Any possibility you cancel the game entirely? I think you have over-milked the gamers for too many rounds already :D
guys are u seriously questioning being 1 or 2 late . hell this happening every major update and it surprises you still . god help you when it comes up and you get 6 hours of crashes and the like . the tears will be real roflmao
I doubt someone will actually XP in DW even after update xp boost because mobs are 102 and people after 102 will go exp somewhere else (factions, talismans, not annoying jumps/pauses/disconnects/bugs), and DW will be just for buff books (stage 1 codexes got solved) and bracelet.
I personally didnt use single XP boost item from compensation or any "free" item they gave, somehow I lost old grind-for-win mood long time ago.
Jeesus what a hypocrite you are... in 2011 you atleast kept your mouth shut.
To pretend to be a substantial player in the most un-ethical p2w game is just total bs... To pretend you have some morals about games is non-fact - YOU APPROVE THE cash-cow mechanics and are a part of the coc-wheel that makes the game survive.
Either leave the game or stop pretending to be a SUBSTANTIAL player.
guys are u seriously questioning being 1 or 2 late . hell this happening every major update and it surprises you still . god help you when it comes up and you get 6 hours of crashes and the like . the tears will be real roflmao
Jeesus what a hypocrite you are... in 2011 you atleast kept your mouth shut.
To pretend to be a substantial player in the most un-ethical p2w game is just total bs... To pretend you have some morals about games is non-fact - YOU APPROVE THE cash-cow mechanics and are a part of the coc-wheel that makes the game survive.
Either leave the game or stop pretending to be a SUBSTANTIAL player.
'nuff sayd
umad? :cool:
if i wouldnt approve pay2win system l2 would be shut down long time ago. i approve it and im not using it, yet still winning (time to time) :cool:
Why oh why it is always the same situation i think they just doing it intentionally i just fail to grasp what is goal of this. Why I think it is intentional because it is virtually impossible for issues on all big updates from 2011 to now
you know everyone QQ by nature in this bloody game.
Now provide us some compensation pack for this delay as we are all urged to login, and we will forget about it... ;)
Pretty convinced with all these fail updates that they must be following a checklist from Korea on how to perform their updates and they don't do any testing prior to release.
Instead, they cross their fingers, hoping everything will work out and when it doesn't, that is when the testing actually begins while they use the lame excuse of "experiencing technical difficulties".
As normal humans we want excuses and someone to blame and deposit our hatred and anger!!!!
When you pay for a product, you expect it to work the first time, every time. But this game is "free to play" so technically NCSOFT has their scapegoat with this "free to play" moniker.
We're approaching the first time extension and working on bringing the servers up soon, but need some additional time as there was some database work that took longer than expected to complete.
we're approaching the first time extension and working on bringing the servers up soon, but need some additional time as there was some database work that took longer than expected to complete.
I think that qqtor and overQQes already send You bill Neutron on PW with all $$ they lost by this update... :) Gainak might be up already 2-3 times, they need food, let them play ! :(
I think that qqtor and overQQes already send You bill Neutron on PW with all $$ they lost by this update... :) Gainak might be up already 2-3 times, they need food, let them play ! :(
They can help their mini-tzar and go fight @ Donbas for $$$ and glory :rolleyes:
Double profit and exciting irl pvp :D
do you think wi will have chance to play on 29/03/17 or they will be extending till 30 their time xD
if they increase time by 1 more hour gmt +2 players(eastern Europe Greece and turkey players) and all others who have higher gmt timezone will get update 03-30
We're approaching the first time extension and working on bringing the servers up soon, but need some additional time as there was some database work that took longer than expected to complete.
:eek:why always ask for free stuff on official server make`s no sence to me:eek:be glad 2 ppl still keep this game gooing on ncwest:)
Yeah I am sure they are keeping this game up just to please our needs.
Stop acting like this is a "free game" and therefore we can't expect anything in return. They are obviously making a ****-ton of money, and we can expect a certain standard from one of the major game developers in the world.
When certain promises are made (server downtime is 6 hours), people will adjust their schedule accordingly. If they don't deliver on their promises (now already the server downtime is 9 hours), you are making people wait who are therefore losing time. Sure it can happen that everything goes great on a test-server and then the **** hits the fan on the live server, but not every single time.
You can **** on people for taking off time from work just to play this game, but accept the fact that not everyone is as cool as you and they sometimes like to nerd out.
better like this then to have the server up and then after ~1hr seeing a message pop up "this server will be brought down in 10min plz log out savely" ;)
better like this then to have the server up and then after ~1hr seeing a message pop up "this server will be brought down in 10min plz log out savely" ;)
Stop being logical and patient, such demeanors are not welcome around these parts.
I feel like people have never experienced a game before... because patches always go perfectly.
I've never played an MMO where **** goes perfectly on patches. Now that I work at an actual gaming company and see it behind the scenes... relax, I assure you there are devs and IT folks running around behind the scenes trying to get stuff working for the incredibly patient understanding gamer crowd awaiting the server to go online.
Stop being logical and patient, such demeanors are not welcome around these parts.
What is logical about it? This update has been released for how ,long in Korea? How long has NcWest known they were going to release this update? I know what the problem is, it's that special computer language they use in Korea and them special Korean made computers that the same company on a different continent just can't figure out how to release it and get it right. As for free bennies on retail? You do understand what retail means? I agree they make a **** ton of money on Ncoin, and those of us who have been playing the game since inception DO expect things to go as planned. If not, then what does NcWest lose for giving their loyal players something for sitting staring at the screen for trying to log for a few extra hours. P.S. Boootycall sounds like a real ****.
Its ok everyone... come... lets have a barbecue and get some drinks!!
It will be quite some fun while we all wait patiently!!
Get a few drinks in you and you wont even be thinking about servers not being uo yet!!
i think anyone of us from start of god is used to these situations, it would be nice if they give us something substantial as compensation for waiting other then angels blessing but i wouldn't count on it. It was this way from start of god and be this way for years to come so just wait wait and wait
wtf u tolking about ncwest only gets 50 tp 60% of korean updates so your tolking out your *** ans saying im **** get a life quick or better end yours :DDDD! get your facts strait or dont tolk at all!!
wtf u tolking about ncwest only gets 50 tp 60% of korean updates so your tolking out your *** ans saying im **** get a life quick or better end yours :DDDD! get your facts strait or dont tolk at all!!
Someone translate please, the auto correct function is broken on booties computer. Trooollll
please fix aria furstmater npc so we can change from +3stat to +4, the second option on aria furstmater (can i change the attribute on aria braclet) doesnt work., please fix so we can change to +4stats
please fix aria furstmater npc so we can change from +3stat to +4, the second option on aria furstmater (can i change the attribute on aria braclet) doesnt work., please fix so we can change to +4stats
The exchange options for the bracelets were added to Black Cat and is available for Level 2 Hunter's Guild members and above.
The link on Aria is broken, but will be removed in a future update.
Sarcasm on....
These NC people are stingy. They're in it to make money so guess again if you think they're gonna give you party cakes or vitality pots or Tersi. They know you'll turn to the NCStore so they won't give that out for free.
Those 3x 30 min cat blessings was a big middle finger to the devoted people who waited almost 9 hrs for the server to come online.
And the 50% less respawn is not active on Freya.... AGAIN. :(
@Neutron: Is there any particulary reason why we not getting it on this server? It's the second time that happens...
And the 50% less respawn is not active on Freya.... AGAIN. :(
@Neutron: Is there any particulary reason why we not getting it on this server? It's the second time that happens...
Can you list which boss was killed and expected spawn time?
The update has only been up for ~7 Hours. So that's not much time for any bosses to have spawned yet.
Krogel/Turakan/Mimir/Isabela were killed and didnt spawn in the time it should. (12h respawn, should be 6)
Ok thank you, I asked if the System Admin can investigate it, but it's off hours right now so we might not have an answer today. But from the sounds of it from your observations it is not working properly. I did make a point to request this to be checked on Freya during the long maintenance today, but it's possible it's a bug in the world configuration or some human error occured. In either case it should be fixable.
Ok thank you, I asked if the System Admin can investigate it, but it's off hours right now so we might not have an answer today. But from the sounds of it from your observations it is not working properly. I did make a point to request this to checked on Freya during the long maintenance today, but it's possible it's a bug in the world configuration or some human error occured. In either case it should be fixable.
Thanks for the reply.
I will probably check a different set of raids in a few hours, (if the 50% respawn is indeed working) and ill update it here if that's the case.
Ok thank you, I asked if the System Admin can investigate it, but it's off hours right now so we might not have an answer today. But from the sounds of it from your observations it is not working properly. I did make a point to request this to checked on Freya during the long maintenance today, but it's possible it's a bug in the world configuration or some human error occured. In either case it should be fixable.
Exp cap is still at level 105, thought that was being removed?
Exp cap is still at level 105, thought that was being removed?
I just tested Lv. 105 -> 106 and it worked for me. If you are at 105.100% currently the game is rounding the % up so you still need to kill enough monsters to hit the actual EXP number required. The numbers at that point are quite huge so it might take a while to get the exp to cross over it.
Thanks for the reply.
I will probably check a different set of raids in a few hours, (if the 50% respawn is indeed working) and ill update it here if that's the case.
We confirmed the setting was turned off and got overlooked, we are checking if we can perform a quick maintenance in the next hour to fix it.
Some things that might happen.
All bosses might instantly 'pop' back up including dragons and it seems to retroactively apply the respawn bonus times even if they were killed before the update today.
We confirmed the setting was turned off and got overlooked, we are checking if we can perform a quick maintenance in the next hour to fix it.
Some things that might happen.
All bosses might instantly 'pop' back up including dragons and it seems to retroactively apply the respawn bonus times even if they were killed before the update today.
The impotence I feel when I see that today when the server raised I build a CC with my ally waiting for the dragons and never appeared ... Now that "Max" announces a supposed "error" do a super fast maintenance and raise all rb Including Dragons appeared...
The impotence I feel when I see that today when the server raised I build a CC with my ally waiting for the dragons and never appeared ... Now that "Max" announces a supposed "error" do a super fast maintenance and raise all rb Including Dragons appeared...
Apologies, this is not intended to benefit one clan over another as an act of Bias. I have no personal stake in which clans are winning Raids or PvP and I am completely separated from in-game clan activities. I play a character solo on Chronos and do not get involved in any competitive activities as to not interfere with any players' fun in the game.
My objective as a producer is to resolve problems like we saw tonight as quick as I can.
Tonight we had the resources and people online to fix the issue ASAP, and I knew from earlier today that some players noticed the Dragons had re-spawned on the other servers immediately when the update went up and I assumed the same would happen tonight when we fixed the issue, which it did.
I just tested Lv. 105 -> 106 and it worked for me. If you are at 105.100% currently the game is rounding the % up so you still need to kill enough monsters to hit the actual EXP number required. The numbers at that point are quite huge so it might take a while to get the exp to cross over it.
Yes the requirement for 104-105 is 170 trillionish and 105-106 is 3,700 trillion xp IE the xp hard cap.. you think getting 3700 trillion xp is reasonable?! This is the reason korea lowered their xp tables because players were stuck at 105 for months with 0 progress. We need the same change they had to the xp tables 105+.... or you wont see anyone hit 106.
Yes the requirement for 104-105 is 170 trillionish and 105-106 is 3,700 trillion xp IE the xp hard cap.. you think getting 3700 trillion xp is reasonable?! This is the reason korea lowered their xp tables because players were stuck at 105 for months with 0 progress. We need the same change they had to the xp tables 105+.... or you wont see anyone hit 106.
Sorry I thought we covered this already, there is no further lowering of the EXP table. In Korea, they boosted the exp amount needed to reach Level 105.100% to even higher than it is currently. Later then when they received the Grand Crusade update, there was a maintenance to decrease it back down to the current amount in Korea. The global version never had the EXP table boost applied, therefore, there is nothing for us to lower it down to since it's already at the expected amount.
Sorry I thought we covered this already, there is no further lowering of the EXP table. In Korea, they boosted the exp amount needed to reach Level 105.100% to even higher than it is currently. Later then when they received the Grand Crusade update, there was a maintenance to decrease it back down to the current amount in Korea. The global version never had the EXP table boost applied, therefore, there is nothing for us to lower it down to since it's already at the expected amount.
It's unrealistic to hit 106 at current xp tables... I was 105/104 before this update so when my dual hits 105 do I just go afk till next year? This is stupid. We need this maintenance to reduce it to the levels that Korea currently has ASAP. Unless we are suppose to be sitting at 105 till next year? It took me about 45-50 days to hit 105, 106 is 20 times that amount... so how the hell do you expect us to reach it???
It's unrealistic to hit 106 at current xp tables... I was 105/104 before this update so when my dual hits 105 do I just go afk till next year? This is stupid.
I think the idea is that some players have started to reach level 105+ in all territories and versions of the game, since it took some time for the player base to grow to Lv. 100+ there is not much content past 105 currently. Being at the top of the curve in EXP has the advantages of being higher level, but you also have the disadvantage of having to wait for content to be added to support those higher levels. As we can see in this update, the exp growth has been improved for level 85-104, but 105+ is still hitting a brick wall. In the future the dev team will need to add more content to the game to support those levels as well. For now, they're unlocked so that those starting to reach the old cap are not stuck earning no EXP at all.
Apologies, this is not intended to benefit one clan over another as an act of Bias. I have no personal stake in which clans are winning Raids or PvP and I am completely separated from in-game clan activities. I play a character solo on Chronos and do not get involved in any competitive activities as to not interfere with any players' fun in the game.
My objective as a producer is to resolve problems like we saw tonight as quick as I can.
Tonight we had the resources and people online to fix the issue ASAP, and I knew from earlier today that some players noticed the Dragons had re-spawned on the other servers immediately when the update went up and I assumed the same would happen tonight when we fixed the issue, which it did.
You are not helping any clan, good NAVIGATORS killed antharas and valakas at 02:27 of my gmt, 70 members of my clan are offline, we won the respaw as soon as the server woke up, incredible that was neutral, because only those who won was a Clan called navigators
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We confirmed the setting was turned off and got overlooked, we are checking if we can perform a quick maintenance in the next hour to fix it.
Some things that might happen.
All bosses might instantly 'pop' back up including dragons and it seems to retroactively apply the respawn bonus times even if they were killed before the update today.
Apologies, this is not intended to benefit one clan over another as an act of Bias. I have no personal stake in which clans are winning Raids or PvP and I am completely separated from in-game clan activities. I play a character solo on Chronos and do not get involved in any competitive activities as to not interfere with any players' fun in the game.
My objective as a producer is to resolve problems like we saw tonight as quick as I can.
Tonight we had the resources and people online to fix the issue ASAP, and I knew from earlier today that some players noticed the Dragons had re-spawned on the other servers immediately when the update went up and I assumed the same would happen tonight when we fixed the issue, which it did.
And why when they noticed that the other servers had appeared the dragons and not freya, did not take letters in the matter? I wonder...
Just when the schedule was beneficial for a clan (Max) were super fast in solving the problem.
For me and 120 people who form my ally I find very suspicious ...
By the way I am Lohian PokeDex clan leader.
And why when they noticed that the other servers had appeared the dragons and not freya, did not take letters in the matter? I wonder...
Just when the schedule was beneficial for a clan (Max) were super fast in solving the problem.
For me and 120 people who form my ally I find very suspicious ...
By the way I am Lohian PokeDex clan leader.
One thing to understand is by the time anyone reported any issue to us it was already very late in the day, there are few people still at work to pass on information to me this late now in fact as I am writing this it is past Midnight locally. Earlier, I simply took a look at the maintenance thread and noticed the issue with the raid bosses being reported and took action to remedy it as quickly as I could. I also heard from before that when we ran this event last year, it was never working properly and no one seemed to have done anything about it. I wasn't going to let it happen a second time.
Great to see everyone "max" online and take the chance to try at least, it was unreal what happened today and has been happening on the server freya, to benefit only one side
One thing to understand is by the time anyone reported any issue to us it was already very late in the day, there are few people still at work to pass on information to me this late now in fact as I am writing this it is past Midnight locally. Earlier, I simply took a look at the maintenance thread and noticed the issue with the raid bosses being reported and took action to remedy it as quickly as I could. I also heard from before that when we ran this event last year, it was never working properly and no one seemed to have done anything about it. I wasn't going to let it happen a second time.
Thank you for making sure everything worked O.K. without having any major system crash or errors. Whenever there was a major update, there has always been 1 or 2 weeks of server instabilities and the frequent disconnections, and I was mentally prepared to take a vacation from L2. BUT! to my surprise, no disconnection today! and I was able to play about 4 hrs today without getting interrupted.
Thank you Neutron for making this happen!
However, I've noticed the drop for Kartia is reduced by 50%, i.e. no Elcyum powder and no recipes no more...Is it because of the new Paulina's gear R grade 30 days for 80 Ncoins? Hmm...I just wanna tell you something...
I was taking a look around the low level areas recently, and I've met quite a lot of new players starting Lineage2. However, most of them were not from NA but some random countries with poor economy and many of them just young people without much disposable income, but just a lot of passion to try and play the game...
I just wanna ask you...
What's wrong with boosting the drops even better than before? So they can farm some adena and buy the 30 day R-grade Paulina gear set from a player like me?
Personally, I have no problem selling 200~300 x Paulina's gear set every month. Yeah...just from me, if you boost the drops, I can support 300 new players every month. Something for you to think about...
They may be young and without a job now, but eventually they will get older and will start working at jobs, then they will all have DISPOSABLE INCOMES.
One thing to understand is by the time anyone reported any issue to us it was already very late in the day, there are few people still at work to pass on information to me this late now in fact as I am writing this it is past Midnight locally. Earlier, I simply took a look at the maintenance thread and noticed the issue with the raid bosses being reported and took action to remedy it as quickly as I could. I also heard from before that when we ran this event last year, it was never working properly and no one seemed to have done anything about it. I wasn't going to let it happen a second time.
Neutron, I respect the work you've done till now as a member of NCWest and now Producer, but this issue was handed very very poorly and somehow we have the same old guys taking advantage of it.
1. The error. Dragons should have respawned after update. They did in all servers but not in Freya. The issue is nothing new, as you've mentioned it happened before, so the first "error" is that your team let it happen again.
2. The detection. You didn't notice it at a proper time, or you did but failed to realized it was related to the 50% settings for RB respawn. Again, this happened before and you know it
3. The solution. You could have announced an extra mantenaince on Friday, so everyone could have time to prepare. But no, let's do a quick fix in the midnight, be unusually efficient and pop dragons out of nowheŕe. You say you don't want to have any influence in-game, I want to believe it, but your actions speak strongly and annoyingly in the opposite way
Sorry Neutron, but everything was always in your power to be handed properly and you failed us
We confirmed the setting was turned off and got overlooked, we are checking if we can perform a quick maintenance in the next hour to fix it.
Some things that might happen.
All bosses might instantly 'pop' back up including dragons and it seems to retroactively apply the respawn bonus times even if they were killed before the update today.
Since this was a known side effect and only the biggest clan could react at that time, wasn't it wiser and much more appropriate the dragons to be GM killed right after the emergency maint? Thus giving everyone a fair shot at it?
Great to see everyone "max" online and take the chance to try at least, it was unreal what happened today and has been happening on the server freya, to benefit only one side
Since this was a known side effect and only the biggest clan could react at that time, wasn't it wiser and much more appropriate the dragons to be GM killed right after the emergency maint? Thus giving everyone a fair shot at it?
When it comes to downtime, there are other things we have to consider such as the number of users online, the impact by letting the problem go un-resolved, the resources available to perform the downtime. Killing the bosses is not something we have a process in place for and is not something i'm really wanting us to do as it could mess up the spawn schedule.
When we did the emergency maintenance last night, it was at a good time as in it would not impact as many users, such as kicking them from instances or interrupting gameplay. When we applied the fix, the raidbosses in general had been impacted for around 2-3 hours. If we waited longer it would have increased the impact to the game even more. We had the people at that time to pull the switch so to speak so acting quickly was the better option than letting the problem fester for another day.
Now while I understand we could pick apart yesterday for critiques and this is something organizationally that will occur as part of improving processes down the road. As the Producer I feel that all of critical issues have been identified by now and we have communicated those concerns out to the teams so they can review their processes and hopefully make future updates smoother.
As far as the Dragon bosses spawning issue goes, I acknowledge it seemed to have benefited a certain clan over others tonight on Freya, but as I mentioned before this was not pre-meditated or a collusion with them. You can believe me or not, but there's no compelling reason for us to do this as a organization, we have no personal stake in the politics and competition between different clans.
Since I am not unfair or unreasonable, and you all have provided compelling arguments on this I think the simplest solution is to re-spawn the Dragon Bosses again at a better time on Freya in the next few days.
Is there any concern if we target this for 18:00 GMT on Friday?
I must admit first of all, i'm not intimately aware of which timezone each different clans play at, so if this is completely terrible please let me know.
Thank you for making sure everything worked O.K. without having any major system crash or errors. Whenever there was a major update, there has always been 1 or 2 weeks of server instabilities and the frequent disconnections, and I was mentally prepared to take a vacation from L2. BUT! to my surprise, no disconnection today! and I was able to play about 4 hrs today without getting interrupted.
Thank you Neutron for making this happen!
However, I've noticed the drop for Kartia is reduced by 50%, i.e. no Elcyum powder and no recipes no more...Is it because of the new Paulina's gear R grade 30 days for 80 Ncoins? Hmm...I just wanna tell you something...
I was taking a look around the low level areas recently, and I've met quite a lot of new players starting Lineage2.
If there's been a change to the drops, this was not requested by our team. I will need to check with the Dev team why a change like this was added and if it's intended or not. With the game being free to play, the drops in general need to be limited at lower levels in order to keep the market from being inflated too much by bots.
And why when they noticed that the other servers had appeared the dragons and not freya, did not take letters in the matter? I wonder...
Just when the schedule was beneficial for a clan (Max) were super fast in solving the problem.
For me and 120 people who form my ally I find very suspicious ...
By the way I am Lohian PokeDex clan leader.
How stupid you need to be to think NCSoft or anyone from the GM Crew would help or benefit 1 particular alliance among all others?
This only shows your ignorance on that matters, If you have ever been part of a team of GMs in a large company like NCSoft would know that this type of actions would lead to legal consequences, besides Neutron publicly shouted in this thread that Dragons would respawn after emergency maintenence.
If you Lohian and the 3 cats that plays in your clan didnt make it in time is not GMs fault, stop blaming others for your mediocrity, which is the one and only reason why MAX is way better than your "alliance" if you can call that an alliance so until then you can keep crying :)
Since I am not unfair or unreasonable, and you all have provided compelling arguments on this I think the simplest solution is to re-spawn the Dragon Bosses again at a better time on Freya in the next few days.
Is there any concern if we target this for 18:00 GMT on Friday?
I must admit first of all, i'm not intimately aware of which timezone each different clans play at, so if this is completely terrible please let me know.
Wrong Neutron, is not about being unreasonable but about what is right, I tell you what, no matter what timezone you pick, it will always benefit 1 clan among all others, I understand you want to give them a chance so they stop crying and blaming you for their mediocrity but what will happen when they lose again? then will be "x's" "n's" or "y's" fault cause they will never stop crying and will never ever admit they suck.
P.S: thank you Lohian for whining now we will get Tersi again this weekend :D we win again, btw I hope people dont say you work for us if MAX get all the dragons again thanks to you :)
Grayel was not on yesterday when server start, and at dawn so little, do not boast of yesterday's victories, it does not matter if they win, but yes all on the server freya have the same chance
Grayel was not on yesterday when server start, and at dawn so little, do not boast of yesterday's victories, it does not matter if they win, but yes all on the server freya have the same chance
Bye Google Translator again
Thank you Ncneutron for reading all messages
I am not sure what you mean, your broken english make my eyes bleed but I can tell you I logged in 1 second after the server got up, me and 3x Full Parties and that was only my clan, I am pretty sure Navigatos was on as well.
Saying all in Freya have the same chance is as stupid as say GM is helping 1 particular alliance, which is 2 very different things.
P.S: We dont need GM Help to know the servers Status.
Since I am not unfair or unreasonable, and you all have provided compelling arguments on this I think the simplest solution is to re-spawn the Dragon Bosses again at a better time on Freya in the next few days.
Is there any concern if we target this for 18:00 GMT on Friday?
I must admit first of all, i'm not intimately aware of which timezone each different clans play at, so if this is completely terrible please let me know.
The damage is done because a dragon fragment was dropped uncontested and more than anything I would like you would consider dragons and other big events suchs as Olympiads and Sieges in the future far more at the time of problem solving. As mixa proposed, GM killing the dragons would have mitigated the issue. It's not your words but your actions that will keep you out of impacting ingame
Now, if you want to respawn the dragons, my suggestion would be to do it as to reproduce the conditions we had on wednesday, near the time the server went live and announced with anticipation
What about PVP ? All clans close wars and try port in ninja mode (aka first click) in dragons , all close wars and try ninja do 90 - 103 lvl bosses ? This is the way to improve the PVP ? I see all people cry and cry but u get ALMOST FREE dark ama stone and mystic soul crystal when other people pay like 60bil-80bil .
Wrong Neutron, is not about being unreasonable but about what is right, I tell you what, no matter what timezone you pick, it will always benefit 1 clan among all others, I understand you want to give them a chance so they stop crying and blaming you for their mediocrity but what will happen when they lose again? then will be "x's" "n's" or "y's" fault cause they will never stop crying and will never ever admit they suck.
P.S: thank you Lohian for whining now we will get Tersi again this weekend :D we win again, btw I hope people dont say you work for us if MAX get all the dragons again thanks to you :)
It will be because the freya players believe that the MAX clan and benefited on the server, it seems that only in the freya the dragons did not give a respaw when it should, but I parishfully believe in the explanation of Neutron, but I would like to ask the Neutron what goes Happen with Clan MAX players who are in this video. Until this will continue to happen on the server.
It will be because the freya players believe that the MAX clan and benefited on the server, it seems that only in the freya the dragons did not give a respaw when it should, but I parishfully believe in the explanation of Neutron, but I would like to ask the Neutron what goes Happen with Clan MAX players who are in this video. Until this will continue to happen on the server.
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKu4haJ1Mb4&feature=youtu.be
So like i understend dragon will spawn again in freya because 1 side complain is not good time for them if i am correct ? And what after if max side compaing to ? u will re-respawn the dragons again ? What about all this carebears clan who stop war 50times in 1 week for ninja port in dragons and kill bosses 90-103 ? U will do something increase the pvp or we will have 3 PVE servers ? About your video ..... This video not proove nothing since alot of time hide buget , and also if u believe they use something program etc etc u are free make support ticket . I want also re-respawn dragon on chronos because i sleeping this time :) .....
So like i understend dragon will spawn again in freya because 1 side complain is not good time for them if i am correct ? And what after if max side compaing to ? u will re-respawn the dragons again ? What about all this carebears clan who stop war 50times in 1 week for ninja port in dragons and kill bosses 90-103 ? U will do something increase the pvp or we will have 3 PVE servers ? About your video ..... This video not proove nothing since alot of time hide buget , and also if u believe they use something program etc etc u are free make support ticket . I want also re-respawn dragon on chronos because i sleeping this time :) .....
So like i understend dragon will spawn again in freya because 1 side complain is not good time for them if i am correct ? And what after if max side compaing to ? u will re-respawn the dragons again ? What about all this carebears clan who stop war 50times in 1 week for ninja port in dragons and kill bosses 90-103 ? U will do something increase the pvp or we will have 3 PVE servers ? About your video ..... This video not proove nothing since alot of time hide buget , and also if u believe they use something program etc etc u are free make support ticket . I want also re-respawn dragon on chronos because i sleeping this time :) .....
Hahahaha ! Exactly !
Respawn the dragons pls ! I was sleeping also at this time, even if i'm a MAX member i was not online at this time, so i didn't get the xp and book item ! PLS respawn them !! :'(
Seriously ... everything what is doing MAX or NOVA i beleve it's because of cheats, or because we pay Neutron ... Hater gonna always hate and cry all the time ...
apologies, this is not intended to benefit one clan over another as an act of bias. I have no personal stake in which clans are winning raids or pvp and i am completely separated from in-game clan activities. i play a character solo on chronos and do not get involved in any competitive activities as to not interfere with any players' fun in the game.
My objective as a producer is to resolve problems like we saw tonight as quick as i can.
Tonight we had the resources and people online to fix the issue asap, and i knew from earlier today that some players noticed the dragons had re-spawned on the other servers immediately when the update went up and i assumed the same would happen tonight when we fixed the issue, which it did.
Apparently this alliance base stuff is happening while me and most of my CP is at work, can the GM's stop showing favoritism to everyone else on my server and reset it so my CP can get it too, Pleeaasssse??!?!
@Neutron
Can you gives an update on some known issues:
1. Blessed Agathion stats - They still have the old stats. Is that intended or will we have the new stats in future? EDIT: Now gives 0 element.
2. 10k mobs exalted quest - Some cases have friends getting 1 item per 40-80 kills. Is that the intended way?
3. Any news about the drop nerf?
EDIT: 4. Is the font size of the screen announcements gonna stay that small?