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Pardoux

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#954466 The Best Player Medal!

Posted by Pardoux on 05 December 2015 - 06:58

Too many medals, historically, if not currently, were achieved by collusion - and thus aren't as prestigious as they first appear.

 

An example - richest player. The phenomenal amounts of gold that were passed around from player to player, just to achieve that medal, were ... well ... phenomenal.

 

Even medals like the loyalty one are very vague. So I got my Diamond Medal for logging in on, or over, 1080 days. That just means that, theoretically, I spent 1 second / day logging on and then leaving again. It's no indicator of activity per se :)

 

There are a few medals that are "earned" but .. hey, if we wanna just call it "Top Medal Earner", then collusion or not doesn't matter.




#954291 Update v2.85

Posted by Pardoux on 02 December 2015 - 22:18

I'm confused by that too. It's easy to work out if ALL of a players medals are the same "strength", but it's as clear as mud otherwise.

How does the multiplier work if, for instance, you have 6 x Bronze, 1 x Silver, 3 x Gold, 4 x Ruby and 5 x Diamond ?

 

Does it calculate the average weight ? - does it use the maximum weight give there are diamond medals ???

 

Any clarification, gratefully received ...




#953922 Request for UFSG

Posted by Pardoux on 26 November 2015 - 10:14

I think it's been asked for before, maybe even by me, but I'm too tired / lazy to look for it now ;)

Can the UFSG be searchable (on items) by ENHANCEMENTS please

 

Also, can some new items have either (or, preferably, both) Master Crafter and/or Master Inventor enhancements ? - I've not done much of a search on high level items in my BP, but in the limited search I did, I can't see either enhancement on any recent items

 

Cheers.




#953920 Unfinished Business

Posted by Pardoux on 26 November 2015 - 08:29

Can we not get diverted  from the thread which is "UNFINISHED BUSINESS" please ?




#953815 New Content. 2676 - 2700!

Posted by Pardoux on 23 November 2015 - 19:16

Content to 2700, Highest Portal to get back there : 2644.

Can we PLEASE have new master realms every content ? - this pretty much always seems to get forgotten.

 

Whilst on the subject, can I also bump the request above, about having COMMON drops at the END of a current batch of content, rather than at the beginnning, so that those of us who do compose, can farm at the end of our hunt, without having to back-track 25 levels ..




#953672 Combatting perceived/real titan scripting

Posted by Pardoux on 21 November 2015 - 21:48

The cows seem to find it hard to prove scripting is going on when, to a lot of players, it's glaringly obvious that it is. No cooldown teleportation across maps seemingly at will by some players.

So, here's a suggestion for them to try to prove it.

Let me start of by saying I'm not a coder and thus don't know the logistics of this idea and/or even if it's actually possible, but it SEEMS pretty easy, theoretically at least.

OK, here's the idea

The cows get a report of suspected scripting about a certain player ...

They then set up a logging trace on said player, that logs locations on a specific map every 1/10th of a second, and spawn one of the "choice" titans on said specific map. We all know they can force-spawn them, if they so desire.

So, suspected player goes about his business on the titan and, ultimately, the titan is killed.

At that point, the cows go thru the resulting logfile checking for instantaneous movement back and forth and/or zero cooldown on teleport.

And, as a result, that player is either terminated (no warning because it's been made GLARINGLY obvious that scripting ISN'T allowed) or exonerated (in that instance). If the same player is reported again, then the process can be used again to "prove" guilt or innocence.

Now, to me, this sounds pretty easy to implement from their perspective ??

 

Thoughts ?

 

(Heck, they could even run them on non-reported players and with less desirable titans, to keep an eye on things for integrity purposes too ... )




#953394 Guild Change Name

Posted by Pardoux on 18 November 2015 - 05:10

Asked for many times, rejected every time ...

 

I'm sorta on the fence about renames, but actually requesting a spelling mistake being corrected shouldn't be met with a refusal IMO




#953317 We should Get Our Fsps Or Gold Back?

Posted by Pardoux on 17 November 2015 - 05:37

I think the payment should go to the bounty target, it's not easy to defend a Bounty for 48 hours, that should be their prize for doing it.

 

What a crock ....

 

So, the person who gets bountied should get the reward ? - LAUGHABLE. They're on the BB for already trangressing against another player and now you say they should get a REWARD ??

 

I've seen instances where some players don't get their bounties touched for fear of repercussions, so to say that they should get the bounty too is farcical.

 

Can I say NO to your idea loud enough ?

 

IF a bounty is untouched, of COURSE the bounty should return to the poster...




#953013 New "Elemental" Titan

Posted by Pardoux on 10 November 2015 - 17:19

It is my personal belief that new titans are needed and the old ones need to be put on the backburner for a while... Rotation of titans will allow items to keep their value, at least a little bit, since the intoduction of Titan Doubler has made earning Epics MUCH easier and MUCH less time consuming. Heck, I got lucky a lot of guilds were on cooldown a few mornings ago and Solo'ed the T-rex titan myself in about an hour and 15 minutes and about took about 6k stamina. HCS should have a process in place that rotates titans every quarter( every 3 months). This would make titans worth hunting again, help keep prices up(because everyone wants some value when they trade in their epic for a new one!), and keep competition for them alive. Right now many titans sit for days just waiting to be killed... 

 

Thus speaks the merchant ;)

 

Folk LIKE buying these items cheaply ... and, let's be blunt here, if you don't think the items are worth hunting, don't hunt 'em. Others will. They still get killed eventually.

Actually, the slower kill time actually AIDS your request in so much as the longer they take to die, the longer it'll be before another of the same kind spawns and thus the fewer items will be in the marketplace :)




#952877 UFSG problems

Posted by Pardoux on 07 November 2015 - 22:15

It's not just the UFSG either - it's happening a lot on the forums for me too now.

 

Seems like someone forgot to feed the meter before leaving for the weekend - or didn't wind up the clockwork mechanism on the servers....




#952729 Dear Hoof,

Posted by Pardoux on 05 November 2015 - 05:52

Why can't it be removed and how would it harm the game?

 

Mostly, 'cos, IMO, folk would leave the game were it removed. I know, it's an old chestnut, the old "I'll leave the game if .." crap, but in this case, I really think folk would.

 

I'd love more of a challenge in the game, but removing IMP isn't the way to do it I don't think




#952717 Earn fsp problems

Posted by Pardoux on 05 November 2015 - 04:54

You are not alone ..Ever take a SURVEY to nowhere? I did .. I spent like 30 awesome minutes taking a survey for shards.. I finally got to the the very last page or 99% complete and  then..  BOOM ...  " SORRY YOU DO NOT QUALIFY FOR THIS REWARD"  .... Survey to nowhere!

 

Been there, done that - too many times, hence I only watch vids now




#952657 Oidhche Shamhna IV

Posted by Pardoux on 04 November 2015 - 07:15

As I posted earlier, those two totals were achieved with a 25k personal target. Based on numbers of chests in backpacks before and after, there were about 2000 people participating, which immediately gives the 50M global target for those two events.

 

Last year we only achieved crystal, and if I recall correctly, that was only achieved in the final push. I think last year also had a lower personal target.

 

And most of the ruby's we've achieved this year have had much smaller global targets than 75M - wasn't the zombie yeomen a target of 17.5M? And that one also has a 5-kill critter.

 

It is not at all obvious to me that what we have achieved in other globals has any relevance for what we could achieve in this one.

 

This GE was all about prioritising stamina use. If we'd have ALL just killed "Emaciated Fellow", the total kills required for ruby was only 15M.

 

BUT, we all wanted Zombie Brews, so we killed multitudes of "revenants" instead, for 2 kills each.

 

Add into that the new quests, the new LE's and the new TItans.

 

Folks spent their stamina the way they wanted to - who can blame them for that ?

 

The target WAS achievable, but we chose to do the event in a less efficient way ..




#952629 Oidhche Shamhna IV

Posted by Pardoux on 04 November 2015 - 00:28

This is one of my biggest beefs with THIS particular event .. BigGrim has promised in the past that we would have hidden targets so that the people that did more than minimum but not top 100 would not feel so jilted... it was just untrue.

 
There is a WORLD of difference between SAYING something will change and it ACTUALLY changing.
 
After over 7 yrs in the game, you should know this by now wink.png


#952600 Oidhche Shamhna IV

Posted by Pardoux on 03 November 2015 - 19:34

It was entirely achievable, as several players have pointed out.

 

The "problem" with the event is that, yes, it was easily achievable, but it would involve the majority of players going for the "Emaciated Fellow" kills and that drops the tentacle. Plus all the other excitement of new titans, new quests and new LE's.

 

That said, we sink or swim by the results of our own efforts - we've hit around the 65m kills previously on this event, after all .

 

So, we failed on this one - ho hum - on to the next one. We'll live :)






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