Another other reason why I don't like iTrials.
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Posted on: 2011-07-06 13:44 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
And obviously you all bugged this so that the underlying issue could be resolved...
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The bolded text was enough. I still dislike having to wait for the only way to progress my Incarnate.|
Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
I had an hour free this evening. Plenty of time to do a quick BAF, right?
I logged in, my toon of choice appeared at KR WW. I flew to Pocket D and broadcast '50+1 Blaster lf BAF. 10 mins later, I got an invite. Within a few minutes we were at 16. Queued. 15 mins later we were still queued and sb mentioned that it might be bugged so we swapped leaders around to see if that would help. It didn't so we all quit the league and the leader re-invited us, locked the League as private to avoid the wait, and queued again. 5 mins later, still no event, the leader decided to invite more to see if 24 would avoid a wait. 5 or so mins went by, and then we were 24 and queued. 10 mins later the damn BAF still hadn't started, and despite totally disbanding the league and joining up all over again, it wouldn't let us start. I quit and logged out. Total waste of time. SOLO INCARNATE PATH, PLEASE! Eco. |
But the rest of that is ridiculous! That is seriously bugged. I hope a Community red name sees this soon, because while I have never heard of it happening before, that needs to be looked at.
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I understand how painful the wait can be, but in this case the excess waiting was due to a bug. Bugs will be fixed, so it's not a knock against trials per se.|
Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
10 mins later the damn BAF still hadn't started, and despite totally disbanding the league and joining up all over again, it wouldn't let us start.
I quit and logged out. Total waste of time. |
By contrast, I went to RWZ where there were two trials forming. One was a BAF that had 11 members and would start when it had 12, the other was a lambda that only had three members.
After 10 minutes the BAF found its 12th member and the leader queued us. But one of the members never pressed the button, and the trial failed to start.
Impatient, I asked the leader of the incipient Lambda why they just didn't join with us, because doing a BAF would certainly beat standing around doing nothing. He was apologetic about it, but explained that he refused to team with the leader of the BAF. At that point I just gave up and logged into a different server.
As a programmer, I've often had to write code to avoid deadlock in programs. But this was the first time that I'd had a problem with human deadlock.
My question is: when are the devs going to fix childish behavior in players?
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My question is: when are the devs going to fix childish behavior in players? |
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So you really really need to make a new thread on this every couple days?
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I am still enjoying iTrials.
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So am I - along with many others |
Originally Posted by Agahnim
I am still enjoying iTrials.
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Me? I've only made two threads touching on the BAF. The other one wasn't an 'iTrials blow' thread at all, I was wondering what other people thought about the BAF specifically. For me, when the BAF works it's only slightly irritating for a fairly brief 15-20 minutes now.|
Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
So you really really need to make a new thread on this every couple days?
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I'll see that and raise.|
Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
I had an hour free this evening. Plenty of time to do a quick BAF, right?
I logged in, my toon of choice appeared at KR WW. I flew to Pocket D and broadcast '50+1 Blaster lf BAF. 10 mins later, I got an invite. Within a few minutes we were at 16. Queued. 15 mins later we were still queued and sb mentioned that it might be bugged so we swapped leaders around to see if that would help. It didn't so we all quit the league and the leader re-invited us, locked the League as private to avoid the wait, and queued again. 5 mins later, still no event, the leader decided to invite more to see if 24 would avoid a wait. 5 or so mins went by, and then we were 24 and queued. 10 mins later the damn BAF still hadn't started, and despite totally disbanding the league and joining up all over again, it wouldn't let us start. I quit and logged out. Total waste of time. SOLO INCARNATE PATH, PLEASE! Eco. |
Keyes experience
1. Respond to advertisement in global chanell
2. After 30 minutes of recruiting the leader decides to queue
3. 1 st reactor goes well
4. 2nd reactor going well we have powercells but we can't find antimatter to unlock the terminals
5. Antimatter is stuck in the ramp back at reactor 1
6. The league is ready to write off the attempt but we petishun
7. A gm arrives when the reactor is down to 6 minutes
8. Spends three minutes getting antimatter unstuck
9. Wishes us well on finishing our trial
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my question too. there are plenty of threads complaining about itrials, can we keep the spam down?
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Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
So you really really need to make a new thread on this every couple days?
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I loved the incarnate shard system where you could play anything, but now its just Baf and Lam (I stay away from Keyes)... all over and all over
Please make shards more important so we can play our content of choice again.
There is a solo incarnate path - it's called converting shards.
The begging for 'solo incarnate paths' reminds me of the begging for IO recipes to be buyable at fixed prices, even though this has already been implemented for years... through merit vendors.
I completely understand the frustration. I only give the game two or three times to mess up on me before I hang it up for the evening and play Angry Birds instead.
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
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Originally Posted by Laevateinn
There is a solo incarnate path - it's called converting shards.
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Which would work just fine if shards dropped at a high enough rate to be a mathematically plausible method of progression. But it's been repeatedly demonstrated that's not the case.
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Originally Posted by Laevateinn
There is a solo incarnate path - it's called converting shards.
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They're not really begging for a solo path at all, because as you say one does exist. What they're begging for is a solo path that doesn't take literally years to get everything. And I can see where they're coming from, really. I'd probably be upset over it as well if I lacked the time or the inclination to do trials.
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Originally Posted by Laevateinn
There is a solo incarnate path - it's called converting shards.
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I had an hour free this evening. Plenty of time to do a quick BAF, right?
I logged in, my toon of choice appeared at KR WW. I flew to Pocket D and broadcast '50+1 Blaster lf BAF.
10 mins later, I got an invite. Within a few minutes we were at 16. Queued.
15 mins later we were still queued and sb mentioned that it might be bugged so we swapped leaders around to see if that would help. It didn't so we all quit the league and the leader re-invited us, locked the League as private to avoid the wait, and queued again.
5 mins later, still no event, the leader decided to invite more to see if 24 would avoid a wait. 5 or so mins went by, and then we were 24 and queued.
10 mins later the damn BAF still hadn't started, and despite totally disbanding the league and joining up all over again, it wouldn't let us start.
I quit and logged out.
Total waste of time.
SOLO INCARNATE PATH, PLEASE!
Eco.
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)