Kisana

Originally Posted by Black Zot

See my previous post. If it's possible for one person out of 8, 12, 20, or more to spoil the run for everyone, it most certainly is the devs' fault, because they made it that way.

Imagine engineering a car with a feature, that, if activated, would immediately disable every other vehicle on the street. Would people absolve the auto maunfacturer of guilt? Hell no - they're the ones that gave one person the ability to screw over dozens.

There's a lot of features that developers won't implement because they know human nature will lead to using said features for large-scale griefing. And yet they designed TPN to be the most griefer-friendly raid instance I've ever seen. If the devs can't be blamed for that, then there's no such thing as accountability in CoX.

Originally Posted by Black Zot

Rule #0: People are stupid and will take every available opportunity to prove it.

Rule #1: Failure to take Rule #0 into account when designing any system will hurt a lot more people than you think.

If one person can manage to botch a trial for 20+ people, the devs screwed up. Period.

Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit

This all over: I am fine with doing stupid things for pixel art (well, I'll ***** and moan about it, but I'll do it) when it's solely up to me. I don't like it when I have to factor in other people, especially if the task at hand is unnecessary towards the completion of the primary task: Loves a Challenge scrapes by as it is reminiscent of the old "do not die" attitude although the do not mess with the generators doesn't help, but Avoid the Green Stuff, Preservation Specialist and a couple more are disgraceful. Disgraceful I tell you.

Originally Posted by Tex

The "vote to kick" problem has been addressed and should be fixed on the live servers.

The issues with the closed leagues are being looked into.

Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei

I never said what you wrote and you automatically assumed I would just want to stand there, which is in fact absurd and is only stated by you in an attempt to minimize the facts I stated.

That's cool mate. It does not address the issue regarding the absurdity of the gimmicks, but I guess it makes you feel better to say that stuff I did not say.....

Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei

I think the level shifts in the new trials are bogus, but so are the mechanics IMHO. TBH, I don't like the rings in the BAF or the grasshopper like jumping by the AV in the LAM either. Having said that, they are not overly intrusive like the newer mechanics and I can live with them.

What is the "purpose" of the rings in the first place? The entire hold the half the league because of threat rings is absurd. It is somewhat obnoxious to play a melee toon having to jump out of melee range because you are laying the smackdown "too" hard on an AV...pfft weaksauce.

This "mechanic" was expanded in the Keyes trial with the green patch and the wonderful Anti-Matter stops time blah blah...Now in the MOM you have the purple patches that just don't appear under you while you are suffering from the "extra stealth rooting", no they now GROW sometimes to the point where the entire area anywhere near the AV is basically super fast DOT death area. Pfft weaksauce.

This kind of "mechanic" is not fun and is also contributing to people not wanting to run the gimmick fest trials, not to mention the must be level shifted stuff that people are resorting too to increase the chance for league success in the MOM and TPN. Telling people something is fun or should be fun is not the answer. Observing what they do for fun and providing more of that is the better path to take.

Originally Posted by Tex

The "vote to kick" problem has been addressed and should be fixed on the live servers.

The issues with the closed leagues are being looked into.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

So far, I've played around 18 characters and none of them have been affected, whether they were old or new, had the old badges or not.

I've been told by others that they've not been affected at all or that only a few have characters have been affected. Of the ones affected, some people couldn't find any commonality between them while other people could (as tanstaafl did). Others have reported that all of their characters are affected. There seems to be no consistency.

I'm sure this is part of what is making it difficult to determine what exactly is causing the problem and how to fix it.

Originally Posted by Placta

I'm a little confused about this one. There are only two 500-point Public Opinion challenges; the other caps at 250 and doesn't require reaching that threshold. So:

• Is the first challenge included in this?
• Do you have to get to 250 Public Opinion for the badge?
• Or did I miss a third challenge at some point?

Originally Posted by EU_Damz

Now you know theres going to be another one in the next few days to fix something it'll break

Really though, they should have stated at the start of the month that there was going to be numerous long periods of downtime for server upgrades instead of just going "oh btw your losing your play time tomorrow".