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You have my message Jay.
I had Synapse forward my concerns so no use repeating it here.

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Fixed a bug where heroes would see the Villain/Reformed badge progress bar. This badge should be completely unobtainable by heroes. Those players already with the badge will keep the badge.]

Okay on this change, something else needs to be done as well. Without the Reformed Badge, the RWZ mission to defeat Longbow is now senseless.
Why defeat them when there's no credit for doing so?
Mission either needs to be scrapped all together or change the npc enemy in the mission.
The way it is currently, there's no sense to do this mission.

I petitioned this but they pass the buck down to these forums so I hope you do read this. Surprised nobody noticed this when they decided to cancel out the Reformed Badge.

Most of my toons don't really fit the day jobs that are out there.
Heroes still can't get dockworker.

Hoping the devs expand the day jobs to include the Tunnels (miners) & Sewers (utility worker or exterminator).
Need office jobs, hero dockworkers, bar owners, etc.
Also clerical jobs. I have a priest character

Then a lot of people have demons & angels. Fantasy toons are hard to place.

Be some time before most of my toons will get their job. Meanwhile mostly monitor duty for the time being

Only disappointment will be mostly to the female toons. They still have not implemented hats with hair or any headgear for that matter with hair.

I can't even use the special helmet of the Arachnos helms I received for 51m. for any female toon.

Looking bald is just not normal for female toons.
Needs to be reconstructed similar to masks with hair.

Wish the devs would really look at this problem. It always gets ignored

Basically I hate the base storage changes. Bins only holding 30 items is ridiculous even if it is only invention salvage.
Only allowing invention salvage now increases thieves to pilfer at will the bases. This was not thought out very well in my opinion.
Halloween Event Salvage being held has to be carried by the SG members just to make room. A lot of bases out there have over 100 costume pieces.
It also presents another problem. With a 30 item limit, one is being forced to create more salvage racks which means more rent to pay as salvage racks are part of the the base items charged. Also it means more room is needed to place those racks which deprives the base from possibly placing something else in its place.
Finally if the base raids are re-implemented, the salvage racks have become more paramount to protect with its invention salvage than anything else in the base. I'm sure it doesn't say that the racks can't be destroyed in a raid.

You have to do something to increase the limit on storing items, and something needs to be in place to secure these racks from pilferers and raiders.

This is also going to mess up the markets even more than they were before. Doesn't anyone have foresight to have seen this happening?

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do away with the bugs that make the would make the live patch a nightmare.

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Buff icons? Broadsword vs. Katana balance horribly mangled? Half the cone attacks in the game not working?

No, I think the devs swung and missed and got their hands forced by Age of Conan's launch.

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Let me define what I classify as a nightmare. Client Crashing bugs that you cannot avoid, holes in maps where /stuck wont work on, things like that. I am aware of the known issues list about the client crash if you alt from your sg base, but there were others that were not this avoidable in beta.

Also I really dont understand why people mention the not so similar competition as this stuff does not make the devs hands sweat at all. The devs have jobs to do and it is not to worry about other MMO's.

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I did find one of them global bugs. The safeguard for Founders Falls has one on the Arson Side Mission. After you complete it successfully, you exit the side mission to find yourself beneath the map.

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right now there are 4 ppl on champ lol

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You sure those aren't the devs there? ROFL

Besides MMOs do build up an immunity to pesticides which can also be a problem with superbugs. LOL

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You guys have me worried now. Twice now, you've lost the Community/Dev Digests, now the scheduled patch isn't ready, and I'm still not sure if y'all got the Toon Server Transfer tool back online again.



Is everything ok?

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It's what happens when you eat pizza around keyboards.

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So.......instead of a patch do we get a patch for the patch, or do we get unpatched which means everything falls apart and the game resets back to Issue 1? Just for clarification...

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Sorry if any of you were confused by my message. The Live servers will stay at version 17.20080521.1 that they have been running on since May 28th with Issue 12: Midnight Hour in full effect. We will not be updating to version 17.20080528.1 that is currently in testing on the Training Room as we had previously planned. We'll update you shortly with details of what will be going to the Live servers when. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

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heh heh. My answer was the same but much shorter to his question.

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So.......instead of a patch do we get a patch for the patch, or do we get unpatched which means everything falls apart and the game resets back to Issue 1? Just for clarification...

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They just take out today's patch reverting back to what you had yesterday

It's not as bad as the one time, they went through with a huge patch release.
Players got into the game only to find out everything was more messed up. It had to be rerolled back and the time waiting was a lot longer than this will be.
Least they caught this one in time.

Yeah here's where you end up with a problem.
Say you decide to move your character to another server you want to go to only to find the name of your character is already taken there.
Your next decision is to go back where you were originally as you then decide against the move only to find out in the short time you were looking, someone took your name from the original server you were on.
Now you're obviously left without anywhere to go as you had no other reason to move.
It could happen in the short span you're looking over the other server unless the move is confirmed on another server, nothing changes.

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thats why there is a name change "feature" going in as well

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I refer to the fact that not everyone is going to want to change the name of their character. What if they just want to play their same character without changing the name but on a different server to maintain continuity but with other people?
They will be out of luck.

Heh Since Indy stoled Gen-Con from us, I'll never get to any of these meet & greets. (Actually Gygax sold us out)
Being mobility disabled and having to live on fixed income, travel is out of the question.
They'll never come here to Wisconsin.

Already I can see a problem where someone tries to take their character to another server only to find out, they're blocked from doing so.
Reason is cause someone on that server already has a character with the same name.

This will prevent many from really making the server transfer worth their time and money.
How is NCSoft planning on addressing this issue? The way it is now, anyone can have the same name as long as it's on a different server, and even one person can have one account with the same name on different servers.
With server transfer, you're definitely headed for a problem with this system the way it is now or does it all go by one's individual account?
I really don't think the latter holds true cause I have characters on a server that right now if I wanted to recreate the same characters with the same names on a different server, I can't.
I'd like to know what's being done to address this issue with server transfer.

Not enough if NCSoft closes their accounts. They just open new globals. I've ignored several globals from the same website.
We need NCSoft to actually target their websites.

www.ssegames.com which is Shinestar Co, Ltd
www.pkpkg.com
OwnYo.com -COH Infamy Trading Center

They won't go away til NCSoft's legal dept. threatens to sue their sites.
I've been getting these harassment tells since July 20th.
Petitions are doing no good whatsoever.

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Then make use of the in game /petition command to let our Customer Support Team know of the activity so we can address it.

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could you elaborate on this, as to exactly what information you need the petition to contain, what petition topic to enter it under. also how do you globally ignore someone without knowing their global name ?

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I agree. Most of the time, all you get is their throwaway toon's name not their global.
I've reported the toon's name not knowing their global.
Btw: Under Petition, you check it off under harassment/ exploit.
Please also note time of sent tell including your server and time zone.

Poll didn't give me any interest to vote. The Density thing may work with one of my toons I have in mind but a better power set will never happen except in RP.
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I ran into unexpected (to me, at least) team behavior in some recent Safeguard missions, in that all of the rest of the team exited the mission right after stopping the bank robbery, without comment, with no attempt to take advantage of any side missions or the relatively target rich environment in the copious remaining time available. Cherry picking.

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Exactly what I knew was going to happen when people find out there's no full team credit towards any of the badges in the side missions.

Only the person who clicks the last object or defeats the main villain gets the credit.
The thing that the devs left us to do is go after the temp power and the exploration badge. The side missions have no reward except for that one lucky individual.
They (Devs) have made it a lottery.

Notice there hasn't been any red name responding to this even though Ravenstorm wrote the strategy for this.

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No. No it didn't. We tested it over and over on the training room and gave the exact feedback you're seeing in this thread. Some of the feedback was listened to (like losing time for objects being destroyed when you had no chance in hell of stopping that) but most of it was ignored (like everything in this thread).

So don't go blaming the testers. WE tested it and reported our findings. The developers chose to ignore some of that for whatever reason and thus you have the gigantic flop that is Safeguard missions.

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Yeah ultimately it falls down to what they want not us and it sure wasn't decent safeguard missions.
If they were quite aware of the bugs in Issue 8, I have no idea why they released it.
Even the veteran rewards were so-so. Basically I guess they just wanted to clear off their workbench for the Holiday stuff so they shoved it on us literally.

I add my name to this list of people who have done these flawed safeguards.
For being too high for a zone, we have to exemplar to a lower team but when there is absolutely no credit for badges in side missions, why bother.

Only got credit for two badges: Villain Disruptor & PPD Deputy
That means the other 4 are broken. Stupid if only one person on a team gets all the credit.
There should've been implemented the same auto-exemplaring for Safeguards as there is for PvP zones. Maybe then we'd all get credit.

Multiple side missions popping up at the same time is also ridiculous.
Enemy set to Invincible power while you are Heroic is crazy.

This stuff went thru the Testing Room virtually untested I can see. Too many flaws with it.

Only thing everyone can get is the exploration badge. Other badges are bogus right now. Even in Mayhem missions, I was able to get progress on my badges.

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Is it now possible to visit your team leader's SG base?

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I'd also like an answer to this question. This has been a long drawn out problem.
Tired of being booted every time I try to enter the leader's base cause I'm not of their SG, VG, or coalition.
Only way I got into the Air Pirate SF one time was a timing thing where the leader clicks on the SF minute he/she sees all green as you make your attempt to enter their base.

This really needed fixing.

(Head – Ears): Floppy, Bunny, Cat, Rat, Teddy, Wildcat

Okay way this is posted, one can presume it's for both male & female. It isn't.
Males have rat, lion, & cat tails but as for the ears, none of the above.
WE want our ears too. Least the ones to match the tails like rat and cat.

The clipping on the trenchcoats is not only with tails but also with certain builds like Ice Armor.
It also clips off the mantle or collar part if you have a full body aura. From the back, you look like you're wearing a window shade with curtain rod.