Snow Globe

It was put in to stem complaints about auto-exemplaring during Task Forces.

Xbox 360 Controller Button Mapping Guide

It is in the Player Guides section... Guide to Guides

More like Derek Smart. For similar reasons to BC3K.

I've given this some thought.

I'd be overjoyed if they announced that they will give all current subscribers 1 Reward Token on the 28th. Then going forward Transfers, Paragon Points, and Reward Tokens will be given to subscribers on the first of the month.

What this does:

• Simplifies the three awards for everyone (Paragon Studios, NCsoft, and most importantly the Subscribers).
• Easy to communicate to existing subscribers and potential subscribers.
• Easy for Paragon Studios, NCsoft, and the GMs to manage.
• Has the same effect as currently intended: Provide perks for subscribing for a month.

There isn't any 15-day subscriptions, so why is Paragon Studios/NCsoft so intent on having a complicated formula?

This shouldn't be rocket science folks. A player subscribes for multiples of 30 days. Award the player the subscription perks the first day of the month.

When I explained how the system currently is working to a former subscriber to this game, their response was "What the <censored> are they thinking? Other MMO's I play give players all the rewards UP FRONT for subscribing." Players here aren't asking for that. What the players here are asking for is to be treated with a bit of respect. We were told something, then when that didn't materialize, we were told something else that didn't come to pass.

Well, except me.

You might want to tell them that:
Just saying.

Center of the battle. The original picture actually extends 1/3 more to the right.

Actually the person you are talking about is my character "Pearl Angel".

The thing is that picture:

• Is a still image.
• It isn't competing with other animations as much as in game.
• You have more than a second to process the image as you aren't in mid-combat.

it also shows that, unlike your pictures, the beam target embedded in the ground plane. Like you said, it is a two dimensional graphic. This means that variations in the ground mapping obscures the beam target.

And that is my point. Thank you.

Please don't confuse character slots with tokens.

To add to the above correction though:
If those slots are or have been assigned to a server, those assigned slots will remain on that server.

+2 Global character slots for being a Premium.

They don't need any more suggestions on how to torment me with badges... I still haven't got Bug Hunter.

Here are my Graphics Settings:

No, there are only 34 reward token badges in the game, which corresponds to the 99 month vet reward badge+1 "Zero month" reward badge for new players. That is 34 x 3 = 102 - 3 (the free token) = 99 months.

The only other vet badges are the new year badges, which there are 8 of.

That is why I refused to play the "billing date" game with them, and went to the screenshot of my Veteran Rewards.

I've had 4-7 "refer a friend" bonuses and had two weeks additional time with the Valentines 2005 Buddy Code. My paid account date was the 10th, but has moved to the 7th. My veteran Reward date was the 12th though.

No, you are not.

I have to agree.

This is what I'm trying to get across, but it doesn't seem to be happening.

Black Scorpion and Arbiter Hawk got together and fast-tracked that when I PM'd them that I had finished all 36 Alpha abilities on live, huh?

The day before my bill date is the 6th. The day before I got my Points this month was the 11th.

The day I was told "in a few days" by a Senior GM was 2 days ago. After that I asked the GM to give me an approximate reward date and was told:

The day I was told the 28th by a Senior GM was today.

Yes, that would have been the best way to handle things.

• Bad design goals.
  
  Someone had the not-so-bright idea that we should get 1 server transfer token at the beginning of the month, the Paragon Points on our renewal date, and the Paragon Reward Tokens on our Veteran Reward date (despite telling players these would be front-loaded).

• Multiple teams trying to justify their existence.
  
  It is clear that there was one group of people doing the reward token script, one group working on the market/points systems, and one group working on the Paragon Rewards system & conversion.

• Little to no documentation trail.
  
  This is clear because just by reading all the announcements, GM responses, and Community Team's posts.

• Little to no testing of the systems and how they interacted with each other.
  
  No one, during the entire process, seems to have requested an ounce of feed back.
  
  Additionally, when there was a chance to test out the new special systems, we were told to "trust us" by a producer (Clockwork 01). This is the result. Now that trust has been burned. Good show!

• Little to no oversight of the people doing the work.
  
  See previous points.

This surprises you how? Keeping things hidden is standard operating procedure. Actually it might not be, but then I'm left with the the only explanation for the current state of the account page and market system as being designed by people that don't know what the heck they are doing.

As a part of my Web Development Diploma, all my fellow students had to do a checkout system. In every case there was a transaction history.

I had 2 senior GMs tell me differently. One said "next couple days" and the other said the 28th. I do recognize both the GM names as really high level CS Reps. That is one of the reasons I'm annoyed, because these particular GMs don't usually stonewall players.

Thanks. That makes the 28 seem plausible.

Actually my vet reward date changed exactly once: when they made the major correction to fix the billing dates.

I had screenshots of my account page, generally to use as demonstrations. So I'm not guessing. The accounts page has changed and you don't get the same information now.

I got the same response from customer support this afternoon.

It currently seems to be based on Sep 28, not the VIP head start, not Issue 21's launch date, but one week after Issue 21 officially launched. I don't know how my account could possibly have lapsed from July 2010 to December 2011 (12+2 deal, +1 Retail package, +1 month from a contest prize, +several "refer a friend" deals) unless they deliberately disabled the reward timers during September.

I agree, clearly this system is not working. The old system worked.

This is clearly not the case, yet this has been repeatedly told to me by several people (This thread, at least 2 GMs) officially representing Paragon Studios. If it were, then I would have got the Reward Token on the 12th.

It isn't based on the VIP Head Start, or I'd gotten the Reward Token on the 13th.

I don't know if it is based on the Official release or the final activation of returning players as those dates aren't here yet.

Yep, I just got the same.

Given my conversation with customer support this last weekend on this subject, I think I have a blurry picture of what is going on.

Timeline:

• Before Sept 13 - Veteran Rewards
• September 13 - VIP Head Start, Paragon Reward time doesn't start.
• September 27 - Official Launch Paragon Reward Time not enabled yet.
• September 28 - Paragon Reward Time started.

This does not, in any shape or form, match the veteran reward schedule and I would hope that another Senior GM would think twice before quoting that particular lie.

Before I say anything else, thank you for responding. I also thank you for not trying to tell myself and others that everything is working. Clearly it isn't.

This whole situation has been presented in such a manner that I'm left to wonder why this wasn't tested and ironed out during the beta. At this moment I feel that I'm in a bad version of the game "telephone" where I post here, the community team passes along a slightly different version, and so on until the person actually working on the system is getting "it is working as intended".

On a similar note, I'm really getting a bad vibe every time someone from Paragon Studios mentions that something is not ideal. When I see a variation of that phrase, I read it as "not working, and we don't know when it will be fixed."

I can see both of those.

However the last time I was in the Underground, and had my environment reflections, water effects, shadows to "none" the water completely disappeared in the sunken barge room after the Crystal Trap.