GhostRaptor_EU

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Hi all,

We're currently investigating a possible issue with the Zombie Apocalypse zone events on all four EU servers. After running as expected overnight, these events appear to have not been working as intended today. We have escalated this issue and hope to have a resolution as soon as possible.

I'll update this thread as soon as we know more.

It is currently being looked into.

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If the continually following you and doing it as you aproaching a door I think then you have a case for harrasment

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Bingo. That's exactly it. With one of them lots of taunts about how "we're not doing anything wrong. You can't petition us for this." Repeatedly, over broadcast.

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If you've got your chatlog saved then add it to the petition on the NCSoft support site as this is clearly harassment, or better yet, a screenshot showing the UI and the broadcasts.

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Precisely.

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Finally...

If that was a dev triggered invasion of zombies across every zone - well done!

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This was an event triggered invasion with no help from a human at all.

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Sorry if I've offended anyone, I don't mean to, but if as a paying customer you can't express how you feel about the service you pay for then what does that say about the company? If the server population of Defiant is as high as some people belive / say then a lot of people were let down.

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These forums are provided for the community to discuss the game amongst themselves, share information, and share their feedback with us. However, we do have certain forum rules and guidelines. We value your feedback, however you do need to keep it civil and constructive. Ranting doesn't help anyone and, if taken too far, may result in a warning or forum ban. Several posts are very close to that line in this thread.

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Then perhaps the criteria needs to change...

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Reading through the general feedback thread on the General Discussion forum, I noted this post: http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/sh...Number=1239817

Approximately every three hours is well within the criteria set for the event and WAI.

[Edit - this is a general comment that has also been repeated in the Defiant thread. It isn't aimed at any specific post, just a general trend towards ranting rather than constructive criticism that has arisen recently and needs to stop.] We value your feedback, however you do need to keep it civil and constructive. Ranting doesn't help anyone and, if taken too far, may result in a warning or forum ban.

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Good question.

Sure, Ghostraptor, it's all very well teasing us out that there is a (spooky voice) "SECRET WAY" of launching the event, but when you've only got 13 days to do it in over multiple characters, that's just.... irksome.

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I wasn't supposed to tell you about the secret way at all - not even hint at it. So I've already given you a lot more than I should.

As far as the events are concerned, as I said in the Defiant thread yesterday the Zombie Apocalypse events are not on the same sort of schedule as the Rikti invasions. Apocalypse events will most often have a longer wait time between events, and there is not a set schedule. At the current stage it does look like the events are triggering within the criteria set for the event.

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As I said, we're investigating (if you were in the right zones some Invasions were recently triggered on both Defiant and Union as part of these investigations). Apocalypse events should be triggered on a timer.

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We've had a look into this and believe that invasions should now occur regularly on Defiant (/em crosses fingers). An Apocalypse was just run on Defiant. It is worth noting that Apocalypse events will not occur as regularly as Rikti Invasions during invasion weeks.

As I said, we're investigating (if you were in the right zones some Invasions were recently triggered on both Defiant and Union as part of these investigations). Apocalypse events should be triggered on a timer.

As a hint, however, just like Rikti events there is a secondary trigger that can be activated by the actions of players.

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Someone must be able to update us...

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If the community hadn't generated so many hours worth of unnecessary work for me over the weekend I would have been able to address this for you much sooner.

This possible issue is under investigation and I'll update this thread as soon as I know more.

Edit: Please note that I acknowledged the issue in my locked post on General this morning.

Hi,

The answer to your question depends on the method of payment used:

<ul type="square">[*]If you are paying by a credit card or debit card that can be used for automatic recurring billing you will not be billed until after the free month is used.[*]If you are paying via PayPal, Maestro or Game Time Card then the amount of time you purchase is pre-purchased but it is added to your free month.[/list]

In response to the original post: The information you have seen is due to an NDA leak and is not official.

In response to the request for retroactive merits: I can pass it along as an idea, however you have already received rewards for completing those Arcs/Trials/TFs under the old system. The Merits system is a revamp/replacement for the the old system, so as such rewarding retroactive merits would be double-rewarding.

Because this thread is spawned off an NDA leak and the general quality of posts is quite low I'm locking the thread. Feel free to open a new discussion thread once official information on the Merits system is available.

For some time now I've left the long thread about server populations open despite needing to clean it up several times and issue reminders about the forum rules and guidelines. I was willing to leave the thread open as long as discussion remained civil, within the forum rules, and did not spill over into other threads.

We've read and noted the feedback provided by everyone, and it will be taken on board. As previously indicated, however, there are no current plans for any changes to the server structure.

Unfortunately over the weekend there were further problematic postings prompting me to remove several threads temporarily for moderation. I'm still working on those threads, and I'll still be working on them tomorrow.

The threads removed were removed because they contained, or were related to threads that contained, numerous posts that were in breach of the forum rules and guidelines. Including, but not limited to, the following: <ul type="square">[*]Duplicate threads discussing the same (or very similar) topic(s) as existing threads[*]A high volume of non-constructive posts and rants[*]Repetitive posting of the same content[*]Trolling[*]Personal attacks[/list]My tolerance for frivolous and/or non-constructive posts made over weekends has now reached zero. I encourage everyone to review the Forum Rules and Guidelines in detail.


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I have removed (and more may go as well) a lot of threads this morning so that I can conduct moderation investigation and assessments.

Whilst this moderation is ongoing I must request that no new threads be created to continue discussion on the topic of server populations. Likewise, any discussion of whether the Zombie Apocalypse is working properly should be directed to the Tech &amp; Bugs forum and discussion should remain limited to the technical aspects of the event (I have moved a couple of threads there).

At this stage, because of the tone of postings over the weekend, any posting of new threads on these topics will be considered trolling.

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Note: per Castle, with regards the numbers availabel to you during closed beta via character creation:

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Considering they've changed twice, maybe three times, since that build was made, no, they aren't accurate. Heck, there was new code written TODAY that changes how multiple attackers on a single target works.

Things are in a huge state of flux. Lot's of things may or may not change from what is on test now.

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Edit: I'm going to throw in a PPD Hardsuit Costume code for this month's winner (and the next few most likely).

The 30 second timer is there to prevent potential exploits using rapid logout/login and is unlikely to be changed.

Re: posts I have deleted in this thread - regardless of the quality of a suggestion posted it is never acceptable to post ridicule.

Arigold, you may wish to read this statement that was made when NCsoft bought the City of Heroes IP and established the NCNC development studio, whose original staff were the same staff that had been working on CoH at Cryptic.

I'm closing the thread here because of the sheer amount of totally uncalled for ridicule that has been included so far.

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Oh i13 is already out? Must have some problem with the updater

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No harm with a little speculation based of the numbers on test.

We can pretty much guarentee PvP will not be the same as we know it. I think its fair to expect people to talk about it.

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As long as it doesn't go from simple speculation into making assumptions based on limited information . Former is fine, latter not so fine ... given that, well, you *can't* get all the information from the character creation screens. I believe Castle's working on a PvP changes article similar to the recent PvE article. I'd save the assumptions and number crunching etc until at least after that document is released.

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If their teams could please get in contact with those members and ask them to check their PMs on the forums that would be great, thanks!

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Can people still view PM's if their account is inactive? I fear that's why Psydock hasn't replied lol

Edit: Just found out you can't, Psydock would like his titles he just can't PM you due to inactive subs.

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If this applies to either of the others as well, please ask them to email me. ghostraptor(at)ncsoft(dot)com

Note (before we get carried away discussing the changes) - Castle and team are still working on the PvP specific changes and what you are currently seeing from the Training Room should not be treated as final.

The winner for the month of August is Abbzy, for Dark Transcendence.

Congratulations!

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When do we get our titles?

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By the end of the week mate GR told me via PM (if all goes well)

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I'm processing forum titles right now. However, in-game titles may take a little longer. I don't want to send those off to be processed until I have information for all of the characters receiving titles. I am still missing:

Cruiserweight:

Psydock

Featherweight:

Ionater
Tomsk

If their teams could please get in contact with those members and ask them to check their PMs on the forums that would be great, thanks!

It's far too early to say anything about next year, unfortunately. Having said that, however, we'll be looking around to see if there's a suitable venue for an event. This year's Omega Sektor Minicon was a huge success and it's the sort of event we enjoy doing and get great value out of.

*cough* Let's not get personal, people.

Let's keep the discussion civil please. No need to get personal over something your characters may or may not be using...