Notes on new team difficulty settings
By
Abigail Frost,
Posted on: 2009-08-26 15:02 in The Market and Inventions
That's great news!! Thanks for not giving up on us!!!
Yaaaar! Great news. Thanks to the hard work of the development team, the players and that basketful of kittens by the door.
/w
Thanks for not giving up on this, Synapse!
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Legacy of a Rogue (ID 459586, Entry for Dr. Aeon's Third Challenge)
Death for Dollars! (ID 1050)
Dr. Duplicate's Dastardly Dare (ID 1218)
Win the Past, Own the Future (ID 1429)
Glad to hear there is a fix on the way for this.
So i was actually NOT totally crazy huh? It was more than a "perception" issue haha.
Not tryin to rub it in... Just glad a fix is comin... I was tired being on break and not playing. 4 days without CoH... Ewww, i was goin insane.
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Thank you so much, Synapse. I'm now kicking myself that in the data I sent you, I didn't mention that my cruddy runs were in a regular missions and my good runs were thru Ouroboros. I'm really glad you didn't give up on us, given all the wailing and gnashing of teeth. +Rep 4 u!
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Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
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OH NO!!! You sir are not allowed to go on and tease us with that info and then not telling us what was wrong!!!! Spill the beans even if it makes no sense to us!!!
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Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
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I was but still no dice. I downloaded the unstable version myself earlier and it works perfectly. Sad thing is I get it to work after Synapse identified the problem. Oh well, I can still run it to keep track of everything anyways.
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Originally Posted by EnigmaBlack
I don't have Vista but possibly you need to have it running in Admin mode. I also have issues with the last release, it would toggle from online to offline, I had to download the new unstable release in order for it to work.
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Thank you, Synapse.
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Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
Be well, people of CoH.
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I'll guess.|
Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
Was it related to the reduction of AE rewards?
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If I had to guess the new options for turning off the email system broke this!
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Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
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Iiinteresting. Tell us more.|
Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
Oh, and it's great to know that there was both a problem and that it has a straightforward fix. It's also reassuring to know it wasn't related to the accuracy nerf that happens in every new issue.
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
music to my ears.
I guess I can rejoin my sg now, and I'm glad I never got to the point of deleting all my globals to test! <that was going to be today>
Thanks again!
Ignoring anyone is a mistake. You might miss something viral to your cause.
It's possible he can't tell us more now due to potential exploits (who knows what those could be; they might not be something obviously related). Once the patch hits live, though, he'd better fess up and tell us what the secret was. 
Tech support IRL, CLR/DRU/MED/WHM/PRI/DEF. Hmm, I sense a pattern...
S 80% E 80% A 40% K 0%
A few of my alts
I resorted to running flashback missions as I noticed I get a significant increase in drop rate compared to present day missions where I get a lil something or nothing at all.
G'luck and thanks for looking into it.
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Thanks for YOUR diligence Synapse. (And please tell us what it was once you have any potential exploits closed. Thanks!)
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Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
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Thank you for sticking with this, even when your tests showed nothing wrong. I'm greatly relieved that even when you couldn't see any problem, you listened to us when we said that there really was. Thanks for taking us that seriously.|
Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
Great work for everyone who posted. Archie and EarthWyrm did most of the heavy work, but I'm glad to see the community actually pulled together and came up with a LOT of data.
And yes, once it hits live, I want to know what it was too. My guess is inspirations: when the tray filled up, salvage and recipes followed for a few mobs, then dried up again.
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Woohoo! Thank you, Synapse! And yes, thanks for not giving up on this -- I'm guessing it probably wasn't easy to track down, and for a while I know that I was wondering if it was all just a horrible streak of bad luck...until others started mentioning theirs...and posting about them...and then posting hard numbers! So it's great to know that there's a fix on the way soon!
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That's what I was thinking, too -- if there's a way (however goofy) that we've all somehow inadvertently lowered our drop rate, might there potentially be a possible something that people could conceivably do to theoretically increase theirs? (Yeah, four "maybe's" in the last half of that sentence. |
Originally Posted by Balorn
It's possible he can't tell us more now due to potential exploits (who knows what those could be; they might not be something obviously related). Once the patch hits live, though, he'd better fess up and tell us what the secret was.
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)Thanks again, Synapse -- you rock!
"But it wasn't anything some purples and oranges and lots of screaming in fear couldn't handle." -- Werner
30 level 50's: 12 scrappers, 7 other random melee types, 11 blaster/blapper/support squishies, two accounts, and a TON of altitis since 4/28/04
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Some people have been claiming to be seeing larger drops then they expected so I imagine you may be very right.
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Originally Posted by Eldorado
Woohoo! Thank you, Synapse! And yes, thanks for not giving up on this -- I'm guessing it probably wasn't easy to track down, and for a while I know that I was wondering if it was all just a horrible streak of bad luck...until others started mentioning theirs...and posting about them...and then posting hard numbers! So it's great to know that there's a fix on the way soon!
That's what I was thinking, too -- if there's a way (however goofy) that we've all somehow inadvertently lowered our drop rate, might there potentially be a possible something that people could conceivably do to theoretically increase theirs? (Yeah, four "maybe's" in the last half of that sentence. )Thanks again, Synapse -- you rock! |
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Most excellent news! I'll be looking forward to hitting the test server....keep us posted!
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Originally Posted by Synapse
I just wanted to let you know you can probably stop recording data, a fix for this should be making its way to the training room fairly soon. Your drop analysis there, when this patch hits the training room, would be very useful. Thanks for everyone's diligence, and believe it or not the bug had nothing to do with team size, what map you were on, whether you were in taskforce mode or not or anything else mentioned in this thread.
Regards, Synapse |
Thank you Synapse.
**Offers Double Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cheesecake** 
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No.
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Originally Posted by all_hell
I'll guess.
Was it related to the reduction of AE rewards? |
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Not this either. Hey, this is fun |
Originally Posted by Lakanna
Thank you for sticking with this, even when your tests showed nothing wrong. I'm greatly relieved that even when you couldn't see any problem, you listened to us when we said that there really was. Thanks for taking us that seriously.
Great work for everyone who posted. Archie and EarthWyrm did most of the heavy work, but I'm glad to see the community actually pulled together and came up with a LOT of data. And yes, once it hits live, I want to know what it was too. My guess is inspirations: when the tray filled up, salvage and recipes followed for a few mobs, then dried up again. |
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tease |
Originally Posted by Synapse
Not this either. Hey, this is fun
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So we now know that we're not all imagining bugged recipie drop rates.
If it is possible that after the fix we can be told what it was, i propose we each take 1 guess now , and make a lottery of it =D
My guess would have to be the only inconsistancy i saw on either of my accounts, the block e-mails option.
On my main account i turned this option on on every character a.s.a.p. (rmt spam sucks)
However i had not logged in on my fire/kin on the 2nd account after seeing the drop rates, becuase i figured what was the point in trying on that one while it was obviously bugged.
I logged in this morning on that particular toon, just for the purpose of obtaining a healing badge, set my diff to +2/8 on some demon farm runs & netted 12-14 per run consistantly.
This was the first since the new issue i had seen more than 4 recipies on a run.
...and yes i left recieving mails on, didn't touch a setting afterward, didn't even change costumes, or go to a different zone. If it isn't broke(on that toon) i'm not risking it.
im going to take a guess that it had something to do with the coding of the AE mob rewards?