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Dev Chat Highlights, July 20: Paragon Rewards

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-07-20 11:31 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Shadow State View Post
Do you have a link to that information? During the Panel Positron says that tier 5 will take 13 tokens which is one for each slot starting with tier one and ending with tier 5 filled.
I asked about this specifically at Saturday's Ustream and they said first Tier is 'free' and is 'bought' with a 'free token' given in the Tutorial. They said they even considered calling Tier 1 "Tier Zero" since it really wasn't part of 'the tree'.

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Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
I asked about this specifically at Saturday's Ustream and they said first Tier is 'free' and is 'bought' with a 'free token' given in the Tutorial. They said they even considered calling Tier 1 "Tier Zero" since it really wasn't part of 'the Shrubbery'.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
I asked about this specifically at Saturday's Ustream and they said first Tier is 'free' and is 'bought' with a 'free token' given in the Tutorial. They said they even considered calling Tier 1 "Tier Zero" since it really wasn't part of 'the dreidel'.
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Okay, here's a question I haven't seen asked yet. (There's some build-up to it though.)

A while back... at least a year ago, probably two actually, there was a database glitch of some sort and a number of accounts were credited with more time towards Veteran Rewards than they had actually earned. My account was one of them. (I jumped 'forward' something like 24 months of veteran time.)

Now, when I sent in a bug report on this glitch, I was told in the response that (a) they weren't going to take it away and (b) I would continue to accrue Veteran rewards in the normal fashion. (In other words, I wouldn't have to wait 27 months for the next Veteran reward just because I got erroneously credited with extra Veteran reward time.)

So my question is, will this affect what tier I land in? Or am I going to continue to be a lucky victim of that database glitch? (Based on my veteran reward amount, I would be in Tier 8, but really, I should be high Tier 5/low Tier 6.)

 

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Originally Posted by Kierthos View Post
Okay, here's a question I haven't seen asked yet. (There's some build-up to it though.)

A while back... at least a year ago, probably two actually, there was a database glitch of some sort and a number of accounts were credited with more time towards Veteran Rewards than they had actually earned. My account was one of them. (I jumped 'forward' something like 24 months of veteran time.)

Now, when I sent in a bug report on this glitch, I was told in the response that (a) they weren't going to take it away and (b) I would continue to accrue Veteran rewards in the normal fashion. (In other words, I wouldn't have to wait 27 months for the next Veteran reward just because I got erroneously credited with extra Veteran reward time.)

So my question is, will this affect what tier I land in? Or am I going to continue to be a lucky victim of that database glitch? (Based on my veteran reward amount, I would be in Tier 8, but really, I should be high Tier 5/low Tier 6.)
Nope. Posi said in a Ustream chat that they're using a different system to keep track of time.

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Originally Posted by Kierthos View Post
Okay, here's a question I haven't seen asked yet. (There's some build-up to it though.)

A while back... at least a year ago, probably two actually, there was a database glitch of some sort and a number of accounts were credited with more time towards Veteran Rewards than they had actually earned. My account was one of them. (I jumped 'forward' something like 24 months of veteran time.)

Now, when I sent in a bug report on this glitch, I was told in the response that (a) they weren't going to take it away and (b) I would continue to accrue Veteran rewards in the normal fashion. (In other words, I wouldn't have to wait 27 months for the next Veteran reward just because I got erroneously credited with extra Veteran reward time.)

So my question is, will this affect what tier I land in? Or am I going to continue to be a lucky victim of that database glitch? (Based on my veteran reward amount, I would be in Tier 8, but really, I should be high Tier 5/low Tier 6.)
I think it was asked in the OTHER thread I'm watching (the ComiCon Reveals Thread) short answer, no, they told you it wouldn't be taken away, it won't. You'll land somewhere in tier 8, however, I think what ZombieMan's saying is, it's unlikely to ever happen *again* with the new system they're using from now on.

TLDR version: You'll end up keeping what you have now. My bet is, they'll read the NCSoft info one last time to properly copy your vet status in, or read from the badges you have, either way, it "looks" like you have more than you "do" so you'll end up with them still. It would likely be too much database work to correct it now, as it probably was then, or they'd have corrected it then.

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