We are scheduled to upgrade the forums on Thursday, December 7. We will be moving onto the system both Aion and Blade & Soul forums use.
We are not migrating any data from these forums. You will need to re-register once the new forum launches. The current forums will be set as read only for a limited time for you to collect any thread and posts you want to save.
The new forums is still in active development and testing so there is a chance the date might slip, but we are holding firm for Thursday.
Hope re-register doesn't mean people can hijack existing names and what will happen to our post count & original join date ?
if that all is reset there's nothing left that will show the difference between a veteran player and someone who started yesterday..
it may sound like a small thing but why mess with it if that can be avoided ?
It doesn't really matter at this point anyway.
Start fresh and make sure you're fast to register Draecke, because someone else will xD
dunno if it's worth doing so though, quality & fun of being active here ain't what it used to be and trolling/dealing with such isn't my cup of tea either..
I'll leave it to those who can't help themselves to make it look like there's any meaningful posting going on here ;)
They took 3 months + to translate a poor quality "preliminary" patch note ... So guess if they can do a migration script between 2 databases ? naaaaaaaa ! it's too hard !
Fortunately it's my work, may i give you some help ?
Hope re-register doesn't mean people can hijack existing names and what will happen to our post count & original join date ?
if that all is reset there's nothing left that will show the difference between a veteran player and someone who started yesterday..
it may sound like a small thing but why mess with it if that can be avoided ?
more games together on one forum - less expenses.
and also less players, but...who cares! :D
anyway, for me it's farewell on official forums then, I wont register on new forums.
Why do we need good quality of patch notes, when we are getting a new forum! GOOD JOB!!! "she said sarcastically"
The patch notes are PRELIMINARY patch notes. If you think the patch notes aren't formatted well, think about how we received them and how we had to make it in a readable format. It isn't perfect. We know.
I know it's crazy to think we have more than 1 person working on Lineage II, but we teams in the organization that do more specialized work than work on patch notes.
Hope re-register doesn't mean people can hijack existing names and what will happen to our post count & original join date ?
if that all is reset there's nothing left that will show the difference between a veteran player and someone who started yesterday..
it may sound like a small thing but why mess with it if that can be avoided ?
You can visit Blade & Soul and Aion to see how the new forums look. The registration date won't be as public like you can see here.
We are upgrading because we want all the forums to be on the same solution. This old version is limited and no longer supported by vBulletin. Also, the new forums will be on a new server so we should not see strange login and logout issues like we have experienced and some currently still experience.
If somebody takes your forum name, it can easily rectified.
more games together on one forum - less expenses.
That doesn't make sense. Upgrading is an expense. The games are not on the same forums, they are on the same forum solution. You can visit Aion and Blade & Soul to see how they look.
Hime, please tell me the new forums allow signatures/avatars/pictures posted? D:
No avatars, no signatures, but you can post images. The ultimate goal is to get an avatar gallery and other features, and getting all the games onto same forum platform is the first move.
We chose not to migrate so everybody can have a fresh start on the new forums.
Users apreciate when they are not treated as fools. NC Soft Team chose to migrat to new forum to cut costs and as part of that migrating the database would create costs. So, lets not call **** a chocolate chip cookie and present reality as it is.
Users apreciate when they are not treated as fools. NC Soft Team chose to migrat to new forum to cut costs and as part of that migrating the database would create costs. So, lets not call **** a chocolate chip cookie and present reality as it is.
Well...
The more important question is:
Why they are migrating forum datebase, but they not "migrating" playersbase from old update to new one !
Well...
The more important question is:
Why they are migrating forum datebase, but they not "migrating" playersbase from old update to new one !
they will not be migrating the forum database just archiving the old forum for a certain period of time before they delete it as far as I understood the announcement
Users apreciate when they are not treated as fools. NC Soft Team chose to migrat to new forum to cut costs and as part of that migrating the database would create costs. So, lets not call **** a chocolate chip cookie and present reality as it is.
We chose not to migrate so everybody can have a fresh start on the new forums.
It's quite funny answer but ok... Just please don't delete this one and keep it read only forever. :) Sometimes I read topics from old servers... I miss that times.
It's quite funny answer but ok... Just please don't delete this one and keep it read only forever. :) Sometimes I read topics from old servers... I miss that times.
It won't be deleted. It'll be read only for a good while. Because the forum is on an older server, it will have be to retired at some point.
Why would you do this though?
The amount of people complaining that the forum here is broken is 0, it works fine.
This is like when GoD arrived and the main website was changed, I feel this change will be exactly that.
And since you have no idea what im talking about since you were not around back then..
Compare this > http://legacy.lineage2.com/
To this > http://www.lineage2.com/en/
I want you to open the "new and improved" website & find me relevant information of the game as it looks today.
Now do the same on the legacy website.
Why fix what is not broken?
The new forums will be hard to navigate to find relevant information (threads), thats the biggest issue, not going to mention the minimalistic design of it (which is also stupid).
It won't be deleted. It'll be read only for a good while. Because the forum is on an older server, it will have be to retired at some point.
:D soooo, our harware server is old ......lets instal a new forum and f%$# everybody life.
You know you are in 2017 not in 1990?
Its embarasing you didnt find a way to move forum on another harware without disturbing players with unnecessary changes.
:D soooo, our harware server is old ......lets instal a new forum and f%$# everybody life.
You know you are in 2017 not in 1990?
Its embarasing you didnt find a way to move forum on another harware without disturbing players with unnecessary changes.
You can read the question I responded too with my quote. The old forum will still be read only for a good time, but will have to retire at some point due to the server being dated. can see my other response here on why we are moving to a new forum solution: http://boards.lineage2.com/showpost.php?p=3575847&postcount=13
Because it is 2017, we are moving to a new forum solution and also the new forums will be on a new server. By moving over, all of our game forums will be on the same platform allowing better issue troubleshooting and overall forum management. We understand the change is big, but it will be a better experience and the forums won't look like it was from the 1990s.
You can read the question I responded too with my quote. The old forum will still be read only for a good time, but will have to retire at some point due to the server being dated. can see my other response here on why we are moving to a new forum solution: http://boards.lineage2.com/showpost.php?p=3575847&postcount=13
Because it is 2017, we are moving to a new forum solution and also the new forums will be on a new server. By moving over, all of our game forums will be on the same platform allowing better issue troubleshooting and overall forum management. We understand the change is big, but it will be a better experience and the forums won't look like it was from the 1990s.
Would you mind posting downtown time for both salvation patch and forum?
The patch notes are PRELIMINARY patch notes. If you think the patch notes aren't formatted well, think about how we received them and how we had to make it in a readable format. It isn't perfect. We know.
I know it's crazy to think we have more than 1 person working on Lineage II, but we teams in the organization that do more specialized work than work on patch notes.
We chose not to migrate so everybody can have a fresh start on the new forums.
*sigh* another bug / laziness that NCSoft tries to pass off as a feature. What is new, however, is the complete indifference that Hime treats us, the paying customers, with. Community managers tend to be short-lived around here, and I strongly hope NCSoft will start looking for a replacement while there is still a community to manage, and players to play this game.
*Just when you think they've hit rock bottom, someone buys this customer service team a drill so they can keep digging.*
If you're not going to help, at least show empathy. Making fun of customers is NEVER a good thing.
Because it is 2017, we are moving to a new forum solution and also the new forums will be on a new server. By moving over, all of our game forums will be on the same platform allowing better issue troubleshooting and overall forum management. We understand the change is big, but it will be a better experience and the forums won't look like it was from the 1990s.
Hmmm let me see this whole game looks like from 1990s and we all still play it. Your point isn't valid at all. Biggest problem of NCwest is that you all think your players are all children.
You can't get how so old game can have so old dedicated players. Shame that you all dont care.
Hmmm let me see this whole game looks like from 1990s and we all still play it. Your point isn't valid at all. Biggest problem of NCwest is that you all think your players are all children.
You can't get how so old game can have so old dedicated players. Shame that you all dont care.
QbaQ, I don't think that's a fair comparison --- game vs the forums, and there are many reasons for the forum upgrade as I have stated including a more modern look and an overall better forum to use. There will be a small adjustment period when we transition, but it will look better and be better to use.
Holy crap you people cry a lot...this game sucks and nobody should play it, but who cares about about getting better, newer forums.
When we switch over I'm going to log in all my alt accounts created just to steal all your forum names so then I can listen to you all cry on the new forums as well.
There has not been a single forum that sucessfully survived a complete database whipe, or lets call it migration to new system, after being in use for 10+ years (I'm gonna say we are around 12 years at this point).
This is not just a place where people come to cry, even most of participating users do that, it's a place where people come for guidance. Some members have inputed thousands of hours into contributing usefull information and jsut outright saying this is obsolete is beyond offensive.
Even though the current forum will exist in "archive" form nobody will be visiting it and duplicate questions will start creeping up. These will be replied with links ot "archived" forum and eventually all content generated by users will get removed when the "archived" forum gets deleted and what you will end up is a bunch of posts with dead links.
I personally dont care if the new forum has the current posts, since my contribution to this comunity is non existant. But it is sad to see that quality content is being obsolited just because nobody has a will to write a migration script, if one does not exist - a task even a mediocre developer can handle in couple of hours.
QbaQ, I don't think that's a fair comparison --- game vs the forums, and there are many reasons for the forum upgrade as I have stated including a more modern look and an overall better forum to use. There will be a small adjustment period when we transition, but it will look better and be better to use.
Dont get me wrong, but you said that the reason for the changes taking place on the forum is because of its old-fashioned appearance. Im front-end dev myself so modern look is something im faceing everyday. That has nothing to do with what im refering to.
I refer to the fact of deleting user accounts and the whole database. That is in fact something you could avoid. Some ppl are here from forum start and you are treating them same like someone who just started.
As you can see im not much of a forum writer. Anyway i see lack of respect for users who are.
I refer to the fact of deleting user accounts and the whole database. That is in fact something you could avoid. Some ppl are here from forum start and you are treating them same like someone who just started.
+1 QbaQ
Good point.
For example, I had chat with a clan member last night as he pushed his toon from lvl 80 to lvl 85 so he could awaken and get out of the academy. The convo was brief but poignant. He asked what it was like to lvl in beta days/prelude compared to now. How can one compare the two and describe the time it took to gain each level nevermind the questing and grinding? You would've had to have experienced it.
Our history, our proof may not be in-game anymore but some of it is on these very forums... and is slated to be deleted?
I'm all up for new and improved and moving with the times, so to speak, but removing so many years of our history to make way for such a move is something I have a problem with.