Snow Globe

Originally Posted by gameboy1234

Summary: I think everyone is saying the CE purchase will allow you to add both time and the CE "rewards" to your current account.

Originally Posted by Baryonyx

Hello everyone,

As I mentioned in my previous post, we have been looking at your feedback and our own internal data and coming up with some improvements for a few aspects of the Incarnate System. I'd like to thank you for patiently waiting while we sort out the details, some of which I go into below. Before that, let’s address some general concerns that have come up, particularly in relation to the reward system.

• All throughout beta and since Issue 20 went live, we’ve been tracking data on the reward system. After evaluating the data since the launch of Issue 20 we’ve found that players are being rewarded with the Uncommon table more frequently than we anticipated. An adjustment for this that improves the availability and frequency of Common, Rare and Very Rare salvage will be included in an upcoming patch.
• The participation system's primary function is to qualify players for the component reward tables.
• Once a player qualifies for a component reward, the final block of choices presented to the player are rolled randomly. If you qualified for a component reward, you reached the level of participation for yourself and your league needed to have a chance at any component type.
  • We will continue to monitor the data from the trials, and if we find instances where this is not the case, we will correct them to ensure that this is the case.
  • It has never been possible to guarantee that you will receive a Very Rare. Once the participation system has done a handoff to the random table, it no longer has any effect on your reward. While reports of multiple Very Rares are not unexpected, these occurrences are evidence of consistent league success combined with a large amount of good luck.
• The 10 Thread table is present to make sure that everyone receives something for their efforts in completing the trial, regardless of whether they had to leave their computer temporarily, suffered numerous disconnections or any of another host of circumstances that could happen when content is out in the wild.
  • We are aware that this also awards the door-sitters, which leads to the perception that this is a consolation prize.
  • We are also aware that this is a point of consternation, because it is possible to get this table through acts of nature or acts of league beyond your control.
  • The second item above is exactly why we felt it was better to offer some minimum tangible reward (which is the equivalent of half a Common component) to everyone for their efforts, even if they are affected by events beyond their control, rather than reward nothing.
• You are cooperating together against the challenges of the Trial. Rewards earned by you at the end of the trial have no bearing on what rewards other players can potentially receive. This is not a case of “there are only so many Very Rares to go around.” There’s no group loot table: everyone is rewarded independently and has the potential to qualify individually for a Very Rare. If your league does well, and you are a factor in that success, this will only increase your opportunity to earn a Very Rare component. You are not in competition with other players.
• To illustrate this in a different way: team and league contributions for completion of goals found in the trials are an extremely important part of your overall individual participation score.
  • When your league is successful, you are successful, and your efforts at achieving goals help everyone else in the league. A rising tide lifts all boats.
  • This aspect of the system is why people can sometimes seem to be rewarded for aberrant behavior. Your league has succeeded in meeting the goals of the trial, and their success carries over to you.
• Earning a decent individual participation score does not require an immense amount of effort, but it does require consistent effort. This is specifically because we are aware of the limited nature of some power sets in regards what they can throw at the enemies encountered.
  • We know that leading one of these trials can take significant effort on the leader’s part, which is why our threshold for participation takes that into account.
  • We also actively monitor the data from the trials to assess whether the thresholds are achieving what we hoped. We have made adjustments in the past, and will continue to do so as necessary.
• Four things that definitely do not affect your level of participation:
  • Tagging targets
  • Healing points or damage points
  • Interrupting powers mid-cast
  • Cycling powers on and off
• Any success that may have been achieved while performing actions which do not affect your level of participation listed above is, as noted, due to the success of your league and random chance.

Originally Posted by Emerald_Fusion

I'm not sure if this is really the right place to post this, since it's no longer in Beta, but I figured it would get noticed here regardless.

Fusion Force, and a few of our allies on Triumph, had our first TPN Campus trial tonight, and we ran across a pretty significant bug.

We were using the strategy posted by Winterminal here: the 2nd post in the thread.

We were doing quite well and had made it to the final confrontation with Maelstrom, when suddenly many (all?) of us lost connection to the mapserver, and eventually disconnected back to the log-in screen.

When we tried to log back in we would receive a message that were were already logged in. Then when we could reach the character screen and try to log in our particular character it would say were were in the process of logging out.

A few minutes later when we finally got back in, and clicked LFG and Rejoin the Trial, we were put into a Sewer Mission where you fight Desdemona!

The entire league had been disbanded, but the weirdest thing was we were on an entirely different mission!

It almost looked like a Morality or Tip mission that featured Desmadona. But the entire League was in it. Solo. We reformed.

It was very bizarre. Quite a spectacular bug. A few /bugs and /petitions were sent.

Sadly it was too late for everyone to run another.

My first impression was TPN is very fun! Looking forward to completing it.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

Additionally, the characters were rolled back to the state they were in before the trial started. It was a tip mission.

Edit:

All times Pacific time, Triumph Server.

Crash time approximately: 12/11/2011 8:55:04 PM
Time I was able log back into this character: 12/11/2011 9:00:25 PM

Originally Posted by Kotchie

There are ALOT of good players spread over the different servers, who for one reason or another, have a loyalty to their "home" server, IMO they should still have the option of playing the trials too...

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

Hey Matt, you seeing this? It's about you.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

There will always be people who think that everything they don't like is proof of developer incompetence, and everything they do like is just perfect as it is.

Originally Posted by Ultimus

Any tips for Master of Statesman TF?

Originally Posted by Dark Energon

i know u know at least one person who can do it on your server.

Originally Posted by Dark Energon

And you know what Snow, i could care less if you don't believe me. I know, and the people that ran with me know the truth.