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At least the 5th hottest person is now the new 4th hottest... whoever that might be as far as you're concerned.

Pretty much depends on how much "on schedule" they stick with the 9 hour maintenance period.
There isn't going to be set time down to the hour, minute and second.

Actually the fact that they openly announced this change ought to earn them a certain degree of loyalty. After all they didn't really have to announce it prior to the launch as they did.

You do realize when people like you and Moly "withhold your investments" then the Devs are ultimately LESS likely to have the resources to change the game in a way you would like. If you see your actions as some kind of "punishment" leveled against them then I can only imagine that you like blowing into the wind as well.

Yes I'm aware of those things. I'm also aware that it's very possible that in a few months this "problem" or yours with being unable to "front-load" points will be fixed and the Devs may very well have introduced yet another costume set that makes the Celestial set look like crap in comparison.

I'm just wondering why you'd be willing to risk $250 on this game as of yesterday but not consider it a good "risk" for say 6 months from now. Really I'm mostly just amazed that something like this costume set is worth anyone's effort to sling hundreds of dollars back and forth from the Devs hands.

Peripheral problems? Yes I'd definitely rank my access to one costume set as a very "peripheral" problem.

Once again I'm saying you should have a LONGER view of your plans for this game. If you want to make snap multi-hundred dollar decisions based on whether or not you'll get to use ONE costume set either tomorrow or a couple of years from now then I think you're probably not spending your money on this game for the most reasonable reasons.

I'm actually suggesting that the Devs are always going to be adding "new things" which people will rather foolishly base their subscription decisions on. You seem to be basing your decision on the announced plans for a single new toy instead on worrying whether or not you see yourself liking the overall game into the future. To me that just seems like a trivial thing to base an entire subscription on.

The similar kind of silliness happened when the Vet Award system first arrived. Many of us played the game continuously for around 2.5 years before we had any clue there was ever going to be Vet Award system. When it finally arrived some people complained "If I had only known the Vet Award system was going to happen I would have maintained my subscription." Sucked for them to be so fickle.

You should be making your plans based on whether or not you like the core game, not on whether or not you were promised (or not promised) bonus prizes that you'll now have to wait longer for. If a costume set was the only thing motivating you to spend the money on a multi-month subscription then I think your priorities on this might have been a bit skewed to begin with. *shrugs*

"Don't look for it, Taylor. You may not like what you find."

You know maybe it's not a coincidence that both Zaius and Zwillinger start with a Z.

I suppose it depends on how important it is to you. You could always start "poking" at it even before 1pm PST to see if you can get lucky.

BTW, your pic in your first post was very appropriate for this event.

A few months ago we didn't even know there would be things called "VIP costume sets" in the first place.
Were you going to keep playing for a while before you knew about those things?

It won't instantly start up, but it'll probably save maybe 90% of the updating and patching it might normally need if you were doing the full update from Issue 20 to Issue 21.

Don't know, but I'm just going to be copying my .pigg files from my Beta client to my Live client regardless. It should be much quicker than trying to re-download the bulk of the code that way.

Saved it, or made it more likely to use it on Wednesday instead?

Sure I do that sometimes myself. But how often do you go in early and have every expectation of probably having to stay LATER than normal as well?

I just thought Captiosus' total lack of "situational awareness" for what's going on here was fairly irksome.

Getting tokens "ahead of schedule" with my multi-month plan didn't even factor into my thinking. I've been paying yearly for this game for like 6 years now and as Plasma said the cost savings and convenience of that more than makes up for any tokens I would've gotten sooner or later.

I guess it was too much to hope that people would be willing to cut the Devs some slack for launching the most radical set of changes to the game in its 7.5 year history. Many of them are probably expecting to go to work 3 or 4 hours EARLIER than they usually do already. How often do you normally go to work or school 3 or 4 hours earlier than you normally do?

Hopefully the next time you decide to post something incredibly selfish and stupid in these forums you'll think twice about it...

Well "obvious applications of simple common sense" don't seem to count as "skill" for these Canadian contests either.

Well it's not every day you launch a fundamental restructuring of the game you work on.

Good luck to everyone involved.

Clearly the Devs don't want to encourage us to convert Empyreans and Astrals either way. That explains the 1:1 Empyrean to Astral "downgrade". It's sort of like they are telling us "sure we'll let you convert them that way if you want, but you're going to lose a huge amount of value in downgrading an Empyrean to an Astral".

This is why when you consider the reverse suggestion (converting Astrals to Empyreans) they would likely make that as equally "unfavorable" to us. They may make it possible, but they'd want to keep it something that we would likely want to avoid most of the time. A semi-ugly conversion rate of say 20 Astrals to an Empyrean seems like the most likely rate we'd see out of this.

Yeah I'd expect this to be at least something like "20:1" or maybe "10:1 once a day". I doubt it'd ever be cheaper than that.

Every time they add more incarnate trials it'll be ever easier to earn Emps.

You'd have to make the argument that the "value" of having access to both the red and blue sides was not as great as the HVAMs per unit time. It may fundamentally "feel" like that is the case, but I'm not exactly sure how you'd quantify that in a way that'd convince the Devs to take action.

Maybe if you better explained what tourists getting "extra rewards" from a WST meant you might better explain the "problem" you're trying to fix here.

I suspect there will be a significant number of people transferring level 50 incarnate characters to Exalted. I guess it just doesn't seem all that "weird" to me. *shrugs*

Yes I fully expect there will be people attempting to be the first "Exalted native" to hit 50. Since it only takes like 20 or 30 hours to do it in the AE farms I figure that'll happen within about a day of Exalted going live.