MrsAlphaOne

Originally Posted by Black Scorpion

We tracked how long you were engaged in the trial (in case you joined midway, for instance) and if you were active.

If you were marked as "not active", you got the 10 threads table. This calculation was the source of much controversy outside of the studio, but Baryonyx and Positron worked tirelessly to ensure fairness - it was very heavily weighted in the player's favor and made substantial accounting for all ATs. (This isn't to say we never had any bugs with it, but that was the design intention as I recall).

The calculations for stages engaged in the trial were crafted for each trial individually, and we did see some strange results on occasion - the system was resilient to disconnects but esp. in the early days of I20 when the TUT could accidentally send you to someone else's mission map it proved to be not *that* resilient. This did have an effect on what mix of rarities were in your reward pool at the end of the IT - and at least for a brief period if you were only in for say, a very short time, it could give you 10 threads as well, but I am hazy on that point.

At the end, if you were "active", you got to roll in a pool based upon stages engaged - this looked something like 40% Common, 30% Uncommon, 25% Rare, 5% Very Rare if you were there for the whole time. Partial time looked like 60% Common, 30% Uncommon, 10% Rare.

Originally Posted by blackjak

You know, I'm not VIP and I don't really mind them not just handing it out. Just because I play and love the game, show up for as many in-game rally's I can and support the game whole-heartedly outside of the game with the plethora of petitions, emails, letters, etc., doesn't mean I deserve the VIP status. Let the real VIP's have their last go without a bunch of 'VIP noobs' stomping around. There is much more to the game than I can do in the allotted time left already. I am content with that.

Originally Posted by Black Pebble

That's actually (theoretically) doable with existing tech. It involves swapping in a different animation for the in water state. The only caveat is that it has to be tied to a toggle power.

Originally Posted by Alpha-One

A lot of us aren't crying because we want to be VIP for free. We're crying because for one reason or another, we were unsubbed and not GIVEN the opportunity to resub prior to the announcement and stoppage of billing. Personally, I unsubbed for the first time in over 6 years in June because I was off on a multi-national exercise for the summer and wouldn't be able to play. Do I regret doing that? Damn right I do. But I'm pissed that I can't access all my characters and incarnate powers and NCSoft won't even let me give them money to give me that access. Stopping all billing on the day of the announcement without giving vets an opportunity to resub for the sunset was the biggest kick in the pants for me.

Originally Posted by Rabid_M

Well, it would go to prove that pulling out abruptly isn't a good way to avoid us.

Originally Posted by Mad Grim

My character is four feet tall and has no shiny bits whatsoever.

No, I will not try to find myself >.>