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Three hours (+ setup/wait time) a day for 12 days sounds like a lot to me.

Just don't look up when he flies past.

3.b)
Readdress merit rewards for shortened arcs.

You're comparing day job responsibility while posting on a game forum at work?

I'm glad that there are no badges for trading incarnate merits for rewards. That would of been a poor way to do it imo.
This way I dont feel as much need to get them all

PvP bonuses are kept as well. Some are even cheapish.

I pay some attention to my Doms to having good recharge when lower levels. Some things like LoTG +recharge are easy enough with a-merits to grab at level 25, so that sort of thing i get as low as possible.

Dynamic IP addresses are the norm.

Even more nowdays that the IPv4 address pool has been exhausted.

Many users on cable, have 'sticky dynamic addresses', but these are not permerment IP addresses.

As a security measure, its pretty laughable. As in, any IT security professional would laugh.
I would call it worse than useless, I would state it's insecure by asking the same trite questions that get reused and resued.
I'd state it leads NC in false security as instead of solving the issue of repeated logins accessing other people's account, they have a band aid measure.

All this has been hashed out in Discussion: New Security Update on NCsoft Master Accounts .

That said, you should know the answers to your own security questions. And most people have reported positive experiences dealing with support to regain access to thier account.

Part of the issue is tied in with daylight saving changes.
It seems common knowglede (via the dev version of chinese whispers) that the devs have carefully datamined the peak usage etc etc and its often used as a response without any actual thought going into it. Most likely it was a guess by players that thats how it was determined, and since been blindly echo'd as Truth.

This may of been the case when they first determined it. Though in my opinion its still naive to think that population at x time is the only factor, theres also that they need staff on the job to do it, schedules with other games/jobs for those staff etc.

The difference that daylight savings makes changes it from the old 10:30 pm (perfectly fine time imo) to 8:30 pm cuts into a different time of play completly.

It would be interesting to see data how what % of playtime it cuts for people. 'Screwing' %1 of playtime from 60,000 instead of 40% of 10,000 might mean for higher rentention of subscribers, a more important goal for paragon that minimlising the number of people effected by downtimes.

At this stage, thats not going to happen, as it would mean taking away time from thier prime demographic who would complain mightily about it.

The change to only two nights, and Tuesday being less frequently done was a fantastic thing by Paragon. I am really, truely am appreciate of that. I doubt I would be playing if it was like it was a year or two ago, every night at 8:30 the game going down. Things like the infamous 'no maintence needed this thursday' was also great.

I don't expect it to change further. It would be nice if they did datamine again looking at the time usages, esp. with the EU servers joining, but as I also feel its tied into people jobs routines etc.

However, I strongly feel that those effected by it, should be able to say 'hey, this sux for us'.

Considering the number of trials required to unlock the A-slot, I'm sure it wont be a case of running a trial once unclocks it for an alt.
And I'm sure you'll need to purchase more than one for more than one character.
So they will be asking to do the trial more than ONCE to unlock it for any other character you create.

So true. 33% more variety.

Issue 20 - Patch Notes for build 2010.201105131851.1.0

If everything dropped threads instead of shards, you'd use the alpha thread recipes to make your alpha.

I find making the tier 1 alpha much easier via threads than shards. I use trapdoor over unlocking with iXP though.

What a very trite response