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Winter Festival's Zenith
- Stars of Fortune may now properly be purchased at the Trade Bar Vendor in Protector's Enclave. Get them while supplies last - They'll be vanishing a week after the Winter Festival ends!
- Players may now redeem a Star of Fortune for a Shower of Lights, worth 220 Lights of Simril, at the Light of Simril vendor in Twilight Tor.
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I notice the news update now has the red part crossed out. Nice!
Pretty disappointed in the "Zenith" overall.
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So am I. Don't have many bars for stars and I won't buy keys to get them either. Should have put in a crafting recipe to take the place of the multiple daily's not working.
What I cannot stand is the amount of skeletons that attack you on the lake. You not only are attacked by the skeleton coming out of the hole in which you are fishing but they can attack from surrounding fishing holes! I have been attacked by as many as four, sometimes up to three at a time. The detection really is way overreaching! :-(
Surely feels like there are other reasons behind it, especially since they don't even seem to try to fix it...
lol 45 bars per star. Insane!
I'll just sit on my extra stars until next year if I don't end up turning them in for lights. Hopefully they wont magically disappear.
The news post said multiple fortunes (not stars of fortune, fortunes). Sominator's update said they wanted players to be able to receive multiple buffs (the scroll you can get reading the fortune scroll).
It appears to me that they couldn't get the fortune quest working properly to grant the other stuff multiple times per day without granting stars as well, thus scrapped the idea at the last minute.
And people saw the news post and assumed what they wanted, without fully parsing what it actually said.
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Sled mount at 450 bars
Fawn at 675 bars
Mimic at 810 bars
Whats the other stuff on the vendor cost? Isnt it in the thousands for some of it?
Not to bad also considering you have 5 or 6 more days worth of Stars you can collect to get the price down if you havnt already been collecting.
"Don’t worry; with the changes coming to the event you’ll be able to gain more Star of Fortune tokens. You can now get your fortune multiple times a day, and Star of Fortunes are now available in the Tarmalune Trade Bar store."
I parsed it just fine. The context is rather plain that you'll gain more tokens from the fortune dude.
Count me in :cool:
But the original news post was very unclear at least. Can't recall it but there was a direct link between more stars and the ability to do the quest multiple times.
€dit: thx verdonix1 for posting the quote. I mean, c'mon..
So not that much "loss" after all. Also have to say that across all ALTs, 220 Lights per Star add up. You can basically decide whether you want the Mimic or Fawn for instance.
My last fishin' hole experience was one attacked me and another dragged by a fellow fisherman who then just stood there and watched the fight..
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Fair enough, and at least you're polite about it.
I've basically been telling people all through the event that bonus rewards was highly unlikely to mean more stars of fortune, and I stand by it. Not sure how telling people that Cryptic isn't going to give them something and never actually said they would is remotely fannish.
Not the first time a news post or dev post has said something that sort of sounds like one thing but means another (cough coff wondrous augmentation).
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It seems I'm being bitten by the same(?) update bug as I experienced after NW.20131211a.8. That is, the launcher is stuck at "Patched 8192KB / 42MB // Received 12KB - 19%". The only files the launcher is currently "updating" are in cef_cache:
data_0, data_1, index, Cookies, Cookies-journal
but (just as last time), these files aren't actually being updated. While they are being overwritten, the contents are remaining constant (I've run period checksums over each of them).
The only request the launcer appears to be making are for
"http://launcher.playneverwinter.com/launcher_server_status".
Yes, I've done a force verify. No, my firewall and anti-virus software aren't interfering (they've been deactivated in fact).
The upshot is of course that I can't play.
Hey Cryptic - that this exact problem has happened (at least once) before does not speak well of your internal QA practices.
But with no double fish (Midsummer had double petals) and (as rumor has it) 45 Tarmalunes (Midsummer was 20) this is a major step back.
Since they disable something that wasnt working as intended, might as well disable seismic shot until they find a fix to that **** bug. Also in the zenith thread i posted "Totally disappointed at zenith...2 thumbs downs", well i have to change those thumbs, i give you....1 3/4 thumbs DOWN. The main thing for thumbs down, is the fish turn in, and the items that will stay in our bags forever, the others are too much and not worth putting anything here since...well lets be honest you guys could careless, event is almost over. The 1/4 up, is for the surprise i got, im so use to you guys going beyond expensive on stuff that you know players really want, i was expecting like 100 to 150 bars per star, but nope...45, i still cant believe the miracle, and still is a lot, for something that like someone said ...its a free pet, so not so free after all. Anyways, ill just finish the event and grab w/e i can, and keep my no buy from "crypticpwew/ethenameofthecompany" until i see some stuff down in prices...in game ones at least.
Assuming this was aimed at me - you do realise the patching was working up until a certain point and then stopped? Besides which, according to the launcher's own status indicator (the link in my earlier post), the server is up.
Okay, they're saying you can get more stars right here.
They only say you can get your fortune multiple times, not stars of fortune
And finally here they detail how to get multiple stars. It's pretty clear what they meant if you take the time to read it how they wrote it. Now does that mean I like it? Not really. But as a free player I wasn't very impressed with the zenith anyway. Still I managed to get what I wanted so I'm happy. Hopefully next year they'll do a little better
I definitely thought you would get double stars off the quest and reading the original quote I know where it came from. Dissecting in hindsight is an easy task.
So an item about more stars.. more stars.. and not more stars right in the middle of those two? Yes. TOTALLY CLEAR. There's this awesome thing called context. Check it out sometime.
(there are players who have children, animals to feed, a job so not everyone could login every 24h)
2. Well, better later than never . 5 stars for this decision/updates for the Cryptic Team.
3. How about fixing the Delve Chest reward in Throne of Idris epic dungeon ?
Edit: oh wait,i don't see another chance to get stars of fortune except the tarmalune trade bars like trading lights for a star ( Like 200 Light of Simril = 1 Star of Fortune ?
I really want a Mimic pet to see that chest following me everywhere
By the way i had a daily fortune star quest before the server' timer resets (took it 3 minutes before) , i completed after the new server resets and now i cant take the available daily anymore for the next 24h ...PLEASE do something about the timers bug..
I don't care about the Fawn, i want a Mimic pet ...
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Now was that the intention when the message was written? Probably not, no. It was more likely a quick message that a mod threw together at the end of the day so he/she could punch their ticket and go home to their family. They didn't want to spend a ridiculous amount of time on it, so they made it short and sweet, and made it say exactly what was intended. It's not their fault people read what they wanted out of it and hyped it up as something more than what it was. There's nothing obscure, there's nothing implied. It's plain as day right in front of your eyes to be read, even when you put it back together in full context
The news post was abundantly clear that multiple fortunes per day would also mean multiple stars. Denying that in a ridiculous attempt to appear knowledgeable just makes you look silly and irrelevant.
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