test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Is this for real?!?!?! No Celestial Coins for you...
robertapower
Member Posts: 12 Arc User
So, I invoked yesterday morning. 2 characters. Closed last night, opened this morning, and guess what. All my coins are gone, not really a big deal, except I was at 5 and 6 on each character. What the hell, is this intended? Can I not perform necessary duties in real life, without being punished for it in game? Why does the counter not last until the end of the next day? I have stuff that have to be don e and I am pissed that that is almost a week wasted on both characters FOR NOTHING.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Post edited by robertapower on
0
Comments
"Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?" -Tony Stark
Official NW_Legit_Community Forums
The two types of coins fill 2 separate roles: Celestial coins are daily login rewards, and Ardent coins are long term/veteran rewards. They did add the ability to extend the timer to Sword Coast Adventures. I'm not sure why 29 hours was chose, TBH, though...
"Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?" -Tony Stark
Official NW_Legit_Community Forums
^ Here! Right here!
Why can't this happen, Cryptic? In what world do you live in that has 29 hours in a day?? This world runs on daily calendars. Surely you can code it to keep the coins accumulated until each invoke. Once you invoke, the code checks it with your last invoke. If past 24 hours AND on the next date, it adds to your coin count. If past 24 hours AND PAST the next date it resets to zero and this invoke makes one. Doing it this way helps those who know that they have gone past their time limit and will lose the coins when they invoke. A pop-up message would alert them at log in that their coins will be lost at invoke. This allows them to spend what they have before it being reset to zero.
It's not rocket science.
=RV=
Is current invoke past 24 hours of previous invoke?
No - Invoke with general awards without earning Ardent or Celestial coin.
Is current invoke past 24 hours of previous invoke?
Yes - Is the difference of the current invoke's date minus the previous invoke's date = 1, -27, -28(for Feb and leap-Feb) or -29 and -30 (respectively for those invoking on the cusp of the month)? You would have to throw in some "does month equal this or that" to stop the exploiters from skipping a day between months....
Example: Invoked last on 5/21/14 7AM, invoke today at 11PM. My current invoke is past 24 hours and my current date of 22 minus last invoke date of 21 = 1. Invoking on Feb 28 at 7AM then on Mar 1 at 11 pm, 1-28 = -27
Yes - Keep Celestial coin count and add one to it, up to 7. Award Ardent coin and any other boons.
Is current invoke past 24 hours of previous invoke?
Yes - Is the difference of the current invoke's date minus the previous invoke's date 1?
Example: Invoked last on 5/20/14 7AM, invoke today at 11PM. My current invoke is past 24 hours but my current date of 22 minus last date of 20 is >1.
No - Reset Celestial coins to zero. Award Ardent coin and Celestial coin and any other boons.
Honestly, my computer code writing is archaic at best. And I get that most players already log on within a scheduled time frame daily. I normally try to get online in the morning prior to work. If I can't get to it the next morning but can when I get home, IMHO, I would expect to keep the coins that I have and add to it.
Come on, how hard is it to make invoking once a day on consecutive days spare your coins from oblivion?
=RV=
When you invoke, you get an additional Celestial Coin (as long as you have less than 7) after twenty (20) hours of the last invocation that generated a Celestial Coin. Example: Today at 1pm you invoke and get a Celestial Coin. The next day when you invoke, as early as 9am, you will get a Celestial Coin (as long as you have less than 7). (The example mentioned assumes that the invocation attempts were done in the same timezone.)
When you invoke and you already have 7 Celestial Coins at that time, a message/windows will pop up informing you that you already have the maximum number of Celestial Coins. It also gives you the option that you can cancel the invocation attempt and trade the coins for your preferred reward OR ignore the warning, reset your Celestial Coins total to ZERO and push through with the invocation attempt. (I, myself, have NEVER chosen to ignore the warning as any sane player would do.)
Whatever happened to the OP's scenario may be a result of a bug or something else. But on my part, I have experienced it about three times already as I sometimes push the system to the limit at times (trans. shabby internet connection). Then the rage sets in !@#$%^&&
I allways connect at the same time every day (more or less 24 hours) and ever lost an ardent coin because of invocation. Since mod3 I lost the ardent coins every day with main char. I have other char and he is fine, maybe because with the second char I cant go to IWD, I dont know if this is because I invoke in IWD with main char, but this is happening to me too.
Caturday Survivor
Elemental Evil Survivor
Undermontain Survivor
Mod20 Combat rework Survivor
Mod22 Refinement rework Survivor
It may not make you feel any better but, in general, you just get junk from the Celestial Coffers anyway. It's very rare to get a coalescent ward. Most likely what you are missing out on is a peridot, or a rank 4 enchantment or two. Occasionally a preservation ward. It's not game changing stuff.
They just gave you your disappointment a few days early.