SingStar

Ty folks, and special thanks to all the line dancers that showed up in Cimerora today to make it so much more special!

In case you still wanna give me a very special present, my cake day special MA arc ID is: 33512!

Hmmm, just one problem: it doesn't seem to work that way, but hey... sh..."stuff" happens!
...Ah, I can't be bothered anymore anyway, tickets are dropping, I'm getting them, how and why and what I leave to the number crunshers while I play the game! :P

Yup... order restored!
..and global list still untouched.... so far...

Global channels just died for some of us on Defiant!
Global contacts are still there though.

Told ya it would happen!

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Windfall Earn 10 tickets while at your ticket cap.
Bounty Earn 50 tickets while at your ticket cap.
Premium Earn 100 tickets while at your ticket cap.
Bonanza Earn 250 tickets while at your ticket cap.
Jackpot Earn 1000 tickets while at your ticket cap.




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There's a lot of confusion about these badges. Is it possible to get an official clarification?

As far as I understand it:
You can earn these in more than one way:

1. Earn 9.999 tickets, then just keep playing and watch that new bar move
2. Earn more that the ticket cap for a single mission (different for each mission somehow) and you'll start earning tickets for these badges?

In case number two, there's some ticket cap for mission/objectives/critters. How does that really work?

Yeah, I can see the connection to mission objectives... Was a load of hostages to free, and I was the one freeing them all, but the other guy killed everything around them.

So me running in, stealing the mission objective from him, got the end-mission bonus. Makes sense, just like you get more tickets soloing also makes sense! Yeah, let's make a MMO game that rewards egoistic behaviour and soloing.

Sigh!

(And yeah, know of the hotfix, but still ty for telling me)

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Most 5 arcs are actually a 3 or 4 star mission and just represent freinds voting. I dont take it too seriously. Id rather try a 4star mission (or even 3) with 25 votes than a 5 star with 5 or so.

But atm I go on title, buzz, and recommendations.

And if there are ninja's in the mission? Then they areto be applauded on their stealth skills. Because you can be assured I wont see them. Or the arc they are in.

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Very good point. If there's plenty of people that tried it and rated it high, it's more likely to be worth the rating. While I might enjoy untested arcs later, for now I'll stick with the 25+ tested arcs.

I just finished a mission together with an MM.
The reward was 381 tickets for completing it, for me...
The MM in the same team only got 181 tickets..
...and I was the one that crashed, mid-mission, and had to reboot - and really shouldn't have any mission reward at all.

So... Does the leader get more "mission complete" tickets? If so, why did I get more tickets, since star was passed when I crashed for the 374523 time since I14?

Also, isn't it a major flaw that it's more rewarding to solo/duo that to actually team? (at least Ticket-wise). Sure, I still prefer teaming, but every little badger in town will keep soloing to get all the needed tickets since the'll reach the "kill custom mobs" anyway, meaning the game essentially becomes more boring and more like a "regular" game.

I really thought that anything the devs could do to reward team play would be good, since IMHO, that's the whole point of the game, so I strongly feel this is wrong in so many ways. I've been duo'ing all evening and I'm so bored I could shoot myself, or at least b.tch slap myself for being so stupidly focused on badges again.

Well, I do moan a lot, but this one is deffo worthy of a moan, so suck it up and enjoy the feeling! Another quality moan delivered!!!

Ah, FFS, noone's forcing anyone to play the [censored].
Give it a few weeks, and only hard-core creative folks will continue to put out arcs and you'll soon learn to recognize the good authors (e.g. the ones YOU think are good).

Right now, people are racing to get the badges, and that'll die down pretty quick as well, despite some STUPID "epic" MA badges. Just be patient and remember this MA thingy will be there "forever".

Surprisingly, the so far DEV chosen arcs I've tried where... ...really not fun at all. I'm guessing I might play some SG/mate created arcs later on, but doubt it will be a common thing for me, as I think the smurfs left the game after a few minutes of trying I14 and probably won't even bother again for I15.

Personally, I'll grind some of the easier badges still left, then go back to ITF and treespec grinding until we get some professional content, but I did enjoy encountering some "new" mobs even if people are clearly over-using that option. Give me Freaks & romans any day!

Poor Radio! I miss radio! Radio is my friend!
EXTEEERMINATE! Leeloo Corben Dallas MUULTIPASS!
Ok... I'm done!

oh, wait..
BIIIG BADABOOM!

Pither might need to increase the efficiency tho'!

Any way, I'm still in a state of total shock that there's no Favourite tab or bookmark function. Is this the year 2009? And noone thought about implementing such a thing?

For MA2.0 there's a lot to be done with the "find mission/arc interface". You can't even limit the search to peoples global name, so if you wanna find my arcs you can't just do a search for @sing star. Imagine how annoying it was trying to find a mission made by @Dev, when the search shows anything with the three letters DEV in it. Didn't anyone think about checking what modern database search funtions look like? Where they totally blinded by what you could actually do inside the architect, so they totally forgot about the need to be able to actually FIND what you're looking for?

Oh, yeah great, we got the ID numbers. That's great!

Now, after such a moan, I guess I need to say something positive, huh? Well, besides that, the bugs and really stupid badges, I'm really enjoying the experience as long as I stay away from the main road of arcs! There's some really crazy stuff out there!

Have fun whatever you do, and shout when you're back for more... ...Well, let's face it, you'll come back!

Did you know that more people are born on april 10, than any other day of the year. ...well, at least in Sweden!

Just thought you wanted to know!

You call that bugs?

Bug 1: found with Blue Rabbit yday, repeated repeatedly today: Select mission go in, only to find some in the team went to another instance of the same mission. Funny, but not that serious I guess, unless you're on the 5th mission of a looong arc.
Bug 2: Team of 2. I, as leader, select mission, go in, only to find my buddy in a completely DIFFERENT mission/arc that none of us selected, this on TEST MISSION too, so shouldn't be a database problem.
Bug 3: All of those destructible objects you can't destroy are rather annoying, even if they all of a sudden CAN be destroyed. Not to mention one of my badge bars moved like a rocket and I got it way before I should have (since it's related to another bar that hardly moves at all, lol). Nope, not gonna tell you what one!

Going out for dinner to celebrate my old man's 70th year on this wretched Earth! See you all tonight, and remember it's MY cake day on sunday, with a nice dance party to go with it, just to get you out of that MA building for a while and do something serious!

Yeah, wish there was a no-install-needed offline MA editor so I could work on my work at work, not that work, THAT work!

That would... work!

You know, this isn't really too weird:
Someone just realized they have a system based on mostly SENDING data and realised that when we all log in and start uploading all our premade story arcs the "captain, the engines can't handle it" story starts.

This is just a clever way of spreading the log-ins, and thereby the uploads so the servers don't die the hampster d34th of d00m. Some will stay on until the servers go live again, some will log on tomorrow morning, and yet more will log back in after work, spreading the stress of MA uploads thinner. Probably a lesson they learned after the launch of the black market etc.

Yes, we'll be, erhm, slightly annoyed, but they know we'll get over it, because we're addicts hooked to this dated-looking 5 year old child. ..and after all, it's just a game! (and hence the flames start...)

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Think I can finish of the career mode off BASS in GH:WT before I14 launch after all!

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Doubt you'll be able to, what with all the time you're investing into constantly prattling away with the same 'joke'.

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Who's joking? I'm just working on my post count!

Three beers will actually make you happier!
I can afford three beers and the sub though, but I'm addicted and it's a constant pain.

Come to think of it: If they DO offer you a few days for free, stay clear of the game, don't get pulled in again!

Think I can finish of the career mode off BASS in GH:WT before I14 launch after all!

You can be pretty sure they'll run a re-activation weekend or something pretty soon. It would be so incredibly foolish not to, not even NC would let that one slip out of their hands...
...if they get the servers back up at all, that is!

Hmm, guess I'd better turn on TV400 then!
And I guess RWZ was then only place for co-op MA since cimerora would make even less sense, and god forbid they'd expand Pocket D, huh?

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Well the patch notes are up so that's a start!

Linky!

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Now THAT is WEIRD! They NEVER EVER release the notes until a few hour after it's been launched! Mommy, I'm scared!

Just started watching the us server status page, since it's apparently being updated automagically "no need to refresh" and might actually work?

...and Glen did find me! Ah, dear Glen, you've always been good to me!

Edit: Aparently it's 17.31 UTC time... Maybe they meant server's back up at 18.00 UTC, not BST?

Save the jokes for MA!
Oh, wait... MA is the joke? Ok!

Since everyone's attention is on the forum, and this section - I though I'd send you a friendly reminder of this amazing event. It's even better than MA!

Heck, it beats ED! It's like a big glass of Glen mixed with... a big glass of Glen! You know you're gonna love it!

...yeah, I know! I'm full of it!