Well, for quite a few days (seems to me, that since pre-patch of the new version has began) I have the same problem - Launcher patching for like 2-5 minutes almost every time I want restarted the game. Not being able to find an option to disable the pre-patch, I have decided to disable the "patch on-demand" option in setup…
I think, that a few times that I didn't get RADs from tasks finished through Gateway, I did get regular ADs (already refined, without showing in the daily refinement total as well). So, if you want to make sure, if you are really not getting ADs/RADs, keep track not only of RADs, but also of ADs. Since I began doing so, I…
Well, fortunately, it IS beta, so they can do whatever is necessary to fix the issue, as long as people keep stuff, that they purchased with RL money. If the exploit was going on for quite a while, it will probably not be possible to trace the earning - AD gained could be easily moved around between accounts and stashed on…