greenfire312 Arc User

Cool. @phantomforce can you send me a PM when you get a chance? Since as I understand it the only way to get PMs going these days is when a mod starts it. No hurry.

Irony per our previous debate aside, I agree with this on its face. @tabaloul , naming and shaming rarely does any good (if ever). When I engaged with jadasia in debate on the closed thread, I tried to stay away from individual-centric language, which is my usual policy. Doesn't always work out that way as the discussion…

Let's be honest, it's hard to add anything new and meaningful to a 25-page thread where the primary discussion has stalled due to waiting on info from staff. We're down to continuing to petition Kalyst et al. for news, same as before. Doesn't mean that doesn't still need to be done, and done periodically until answers are…

I would absolutely disagree that additional forum posts have no effect. PWE has a long history of waiting out the negative PR from their awful changes and hoping everyone forgets. We have to remind them (without being frequent enough to count as spam, obviously) that this isn't going away. (Given that I'm probably one of…

First off, optimizing for multi-core CPUs and actually using the GPU are no-brainers and they should totally do that. Let's hope they actually do that, because it'd be just like them to half-**** it by bumping up the graphics without anything to support it. That aside... I kind of have mixed feelings about this. All other…

Hmm. A couple of thoughts occur: 1. If it really is just the servers, then this isn't the resolution we've been looking for. I would think any change to multi-clienting requires modding the Arc client, though undoubtedly there is a server component as well. So this may still have something to do with that fix, but I doubt…

There was a time I advocated for "the glory days," and nobody listened. Funny to see several people piping up now to revert PWI to after certain expansions etc... but anyway. This is an idea I support. In fact I posted something very similar in the multiclienting thread, although it focused mainly on endgame BH. But yeah -…

I would guess that most people don't know they have crappy internet and/or are generally ignorant of how to tell one way or the other. Most online services, including most games, make that confusion worse by appearing like they work fine until something like this force log issue comes up. People who've been having this…

Echoing the distaste about Facebook taking priority here. Facebook, these days, exists primarily as a platform for them and third parties to sell you **** based on what you post there. At least if I post here, the only thing that's being advertised to me is, implicitly, more zen/gold. And, no offense to any of you, but I'd…

Agreed on this. I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be that Earthguard-area music at all, actually. It was a simple, instrumental version of the original PW theme, which played in a bunch of towns. Very peaceful. That Earthguard-area music should not have replaced it at all, or at the very least should've been separated…

@sylenthunder - Thanks for the clarification. It would've been a great explanation if true, but evidently it's not. But @"kalystconquerer#0876" , take note here. Whatever the truth really is, we're probably more willing to handle that than the current situation of being told next to nothing. As much as I hate Arc, I accept…

A bit of mixed-bag news from the new "faction bases lost" thread... I'm quoting the portion of Kalyst's posts there which are relevant to this discussion: So at least something is being worked on (inasmuch as we can trust the staff's word in general). But still no answers about the "culprit," what they did, or why non-Arc…

Just to have confirmation on this is more than we had before, so thanks for that. As always, though, I just hope you understand that those of us who use the Arc bypass don't appreciate being treated like scum. Your "culprit" and certain alt abusers notwithstanding, we've never done anything to you guys and a number of us…

If my experience with the last MMO I played is any indication, then we may well see a PWI-like (and/or classic PWI) pserver at some point, but only if the official servers shut down. People will typically gravitate towards the simplest possible route to playing the closest-possible-to-"normal" version of the game, so if…

As always Kalyst, I appreciate your posting of any update. I for one would rather hear news I don't like than no news at all. If it's the former, we can cross that bridge when we get there. Are you at all able to read the threads going on these days? Because with the length of the multiclienting thread, I wouldn't blame…

Sure, let's **** off more of the innocent player base by removing the last remaining half-workaround we have. What could go wrong? Look for the thread by spaz221. Currently on page 2. jadasia also made reference to it earlier on this page. That's literally all the detail I feel comfortable giving you right now. Not because…

A fantastic way to curb alt abuse would just be to ban the abused accounts. Yes, they can get around IP bans and such. But they still have to have real accounts. Bots would need to be a certain level and have certain gear to make any coin. And let's not get started on the cost of remaking a banned r9 alt. If you really…

A F2P game company ignores its F2P segment at their own peril. This is particularly the case with PWI because of the gold exchange - the cashers need the F2P crowd to buy their gold with coin. Both pieces are necessary, and the game could not possibly have lasted this long if PWE didn't understand that. If the "average…

In earlier years, when more servers were opened, they were opened because the size of the playerbase could support that. You could afford to have forced-PVP servers and they'd actually have people on them. You could afford to have servers in multiple regions just to cater to the needs of your playerbase more effectively.…

Gonna say the same thing I did last year about this. We need more basic-looking mounts. Too many modern mounts have spikes and guns and armor and ridiculous particle effects all over the place. As long as they run at the same speed, gimme a panther or a horse anyway. Or (and I said this last year too), picture this: Giant.…

Yep, I've been hoarding the fortune pills myself. Wish I could say I was surprised by this. The pills even had an incorrect ending date on them. I'll wait til the end of the event, but if we don't get the NPC back at next maintenance (the 20th) then it's ticket time for me too.

Exactly what cost would be cut by forcing people to use Arc? :confused: Even if that is the reason, it'd be better if they told us rather than making us guess. Is Tideswell actually more populated than Etherblade these days? I kinda find that hard to believe, because weren't the original three servers merged into…

Obligatory "seconded" quote. :unamused: Kalyst, I know you don't just drop off the face of the earth for funsies. Maybe someone needs to remind your superiors that a present and communicative CM is the only thing that makes this company's horrid decisions halfway tolerable. This isn't just going to go away.

I'll be honest, when I first saw the people freaking out over lootboxes in more popular/modern games, I was like "yeeeeah, we've been dealing with that **** for 9 years over here and now your quasi-murderous rage is cute and nostalgic." :lol: @armoftheland / @dagoddominator ... this discussion kinda makes me wonder what…

No one (at least no one I'm aware of) has argued that they can't enforce whatever the hell they please. The argument has always been that they shouldn't enforce it now any more than they did then, for the same reason one doesn't typically stab themselves when they're already bleeding out. Not even bothering with the rest…

@armoftheland - Agreed that this is getting too much to quote now :mrgreen: So I think what you're trying to do is trip the "top tier" purists' OCD by making it impossible to conclusively decide which gear is the "best." :tongue: A valiant effort, to be sure. But here's the other problem: R9S3 is available to cashers,…

I've always thought that NW tokens should be exchangable for Perfect Tokens of Luck. Depending on demand, the end result would either be an increase in value of NW tokens (and thus more people doing NW), or a lowering of ToL prices back towards their 10k floor (which, interestingly, they share with NW tokens). You could…

Okay, so if you're not going to challenge me on that, then your implication that people leaving the game is not a problem doesn't stand. Your experience is not everyone's experience. Moreover, "a few accounts?" Are you telling me that CS is ignoring the precious ToS and turning a blind eye to people owning more than two…

Again - are you going to tell me with a straight face that we have the player base that we used to? Are you telling me that the supposed new people coming in are doing so at a faster rate than people are leaving? People are working with CS. And CS is swamped, from what I hear. You ever worked in a support center? They're…

This. If you look at the Neverfall skills you have now, you'll notice that many of them combine the sage and demon effects of the skill (a reference to the Chaotic Soul culti's overarching "this is beyond sage and demon" concept). Therefore, resetting them would just make you pay that 10mil coin / 50mil spirit over again…