When are the levels going to be fixed?

I'm pretty sure they were.... Temporary changes till they could implement all that they wanted to. The changes made were made mostly for reena. Zonal is just a bad side effect.

There is a difference in the first step of a series of changes, and temporary.

'Old style PvP' is simply not going to come back as long as rewards are associated with it.

Dragging this back from the brink of becoming a PvP thread, it's good to have had a redname comment even if the end result is "Soon" and okay it's complicated and pretty well entrenched code, but my original post on the matter was 23rd of October, and it had been like that a while when I posted so I think we may be coming up to the 2 month mark shortly and no fix in sight. I get some people would rather merit grind on +0 and run 2-3 TF's in the time we do one and thats fine, but they'll still be able to do that once we crazy people have gone back to running them on +2 to +4 and actually facing the possibility of team wipes and failures.

Part of the problem is that the situation is compounded by the recent +5 level changes (Which work awesomely when the difficulty isn't borked by the way). Not only are people coming into the TF's with IO's potentially but also with 5 extra levels of power. Your enemies are locked in a weaker state and the players are coming into it more powerful than before.

It doesn't stand alone as the reason but this *Is* affecting the population because TF runners are a niche like PvP'ers, farmers, marketeers, RP'ers etc (and given the seeming Union population drop a bigger one than I thought) and we've seen the anger and subscription loss that comes from battering said niche's ability to play the game their way, and the same thing is happening here.

I only hope the dev's can see that.

And the redname comment was how many WEEKS after the problem began?

It doesn't MATTER? The current status is deplorable. We are approaching a duration of MONTHS for this issue. That's the context for these comments.

So, a redname commented on the complexity of the issue, why it's taking a while to do (tons of things connected to it, extensive testing required), and reassured us that they'll get it done when possible after it's completely fixed and not just a hackjob.

Then people post and say "Yeah, but why is it taking so long?! Lazy slacker devs!!"

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Good this is my point, from your previous post you come off as someone it doesn't matter to, like you came in just to take pot shots at the people it does matter to, it's good to have another post of someone who's game time is seriously detrimentally affected by this, thats kind of what I'd like this thread to show.

It would be far too easy to assume given all the posts on "whichs is best farmer" "best speed for TF spams" "Best market niches" "How many billions do you have?" etc that we're all either farming at x8, merit grinding or playing the market all day (nothing wrong with any of those things, if in fact anyone wants to farm up a load of decimations and drop the price i'll be happy) but this isn't the case and I'd like the devs to be aware of that.

If something is bugged and no-one posts, you assume it's unimportant and fix it whenever, if they see a decent number of people are taking breaks, not playing or abandoning the TF content all together due to it we might have it bumped up the priority list.

I just really hope the person suggesting late January isn't right, otherwise i'm gonna have to hit Paragon wiki for some fun Flashbacks to keep myself interested.

Indeed, I agree with Angelstar, add my name to the list. I really want to the do the new Reichsman TF and get the new MO badges as well, but I don't want to do them too easily, that would spoil the fun of one of the most enjoyable aspects of them game for me.

Like Angelstar says, the more people the devs are aware this is bothering, the more they may prioritise it

That is exactly the kind of feeling that I am talking about and if a MO run is cheapened then trouncing through a high level TF/SF just for fast merits is even more boring, hence the reason for not really wanting to bother with it.

Just as a side note I am assuming that the data mining used for setting the reward merits is not going to count during this 'temporary' time?

Righty then more broken stuff with the levels.

Did a Sister Psyche last night, let a level 22 start it because we wanted it to be a bit of a challenge and as we all know we CANNOT SET THE DIFF LEVELS, we thought that we would get a few mishes with harder foes but that as the leader levelled we would all effectively level.

Not the case, the level 22 levelled and nothing happened they stayed at level 22 and so did the rest of us. Great for having a challenging TF but those that were above the level range of the TF were power capped at level 27 so that was annoying. The leader got to level 26 by the end and still we were all 22.

Anyhow it is not working as intended, we did exactly the same on the Villain SF level 20-25 Air Pirates the night before and it worked fine, started off with purple foes and had whites/yellows by the end.

Well the christmas present of not hassling over this has now expired and been discarded along with the wrapping paper and out of date turkey, any joy with this yet Mod? A belated christmas gift of +2 posi runs or max diff TF races? Even something on the horizon would be nice.

Last I heard Mod 08 said this would come 'sooner rather than later', but that was a while ago...