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I love this...

Well written, sir! I enjoyed the read, and, like you said, that one post about the devs getting free top-notch advice sums it up pretty nicely. I have only posted to make this thread more visible, really... and to thank the OP for his hard work. Thank you.

Hope that Eurydice can tell us if this thread will be sent to the devs or not.

yea develepors listen! this is like Spiral knight probloms for dummies

"I'm here! I am reading and cataloging your forum feedback, including over here in the Suggestions section."

*pokes Eurydice about setting up a List and Anti-List*

*Considers that Eurydice might already be kind of overworked with forum 'splosion*

*Pokes again anyway*

As Ghimno said, this post was written a while ago, but still remains relevant (in fact, it's become moreso.)

All I can think is that Three Rings doesn't care about alienating their current playerbase and is instead focusing on the next wave of players, probably after some big publicity stunt/marketing campaign, who won't know what the game was like prior to these changes. Maybe longevity is the way to go. After all, if they aren't going to release some new endgame content soon, the current players will eventually tire of their Firestorm Citadel grinds.

Incidentally, the basil change pretty much removed any reason (other than mat farming, which is a shoddy reason at best) to do anything aside from Jelly King or Firestorm Citadel runs. Which is rather dull and only emphasizes a lack of content.

Development resources should go toward balancing the game, fixing the UI systems that are broken, enriching the crafting experience (not limiting it to real cash) and putting in new content to keep players coming back for new things. Not toward trying to squeeze every penny out of people that you can before they realize it, get angry, and leave.

Developers might be intelligent (or not, or brilliant, or idiots, or whatever) but they're still just human, they make mistakes, and they can have bad ideas. This current "fix" for the game's direction is not a good idea and does not fix root issues. It simply slaps a more stringent pricetag on them.

I support this post

+1

Vanguardian, Eurydice posted on this same page. You know. The community manager who has to step her game up.

I also agree with almost everything on the OP.
That said, because there haven't been direct applications from them doesn't mean that nobody has read or taken interest. Some of the problems described, such as the zombie range for instance, are inherent to latency and are impossible to fix for those affected without changing (sometimes breaking) the game for others. Even AAA titles with budgets of gazillions and platoons of professional coders of privileged pedigree struggle to deal with latency; it's not something ooo can just say "oh hey! Next on the list is lag! Let's turn up the magical cvar for latency compensation to 10... Fixed!". Also, some of the gear balancing issues described make a lot of sense but are in the territory of damned if you do and damned if you don't. If ooo fixes the chaos set for example, all of a sudden the folks who grudgingly invested into their current set for viability reasons feel cheated and the whole market is in upheaval due to the perception that no item can retain its value because the devs will buff/nerf things on a whim.

Furthermore, the current patch introduced some glitches which, in my humble opinion need to be addressed more urgently. Not being able to go solo or manage a party without going into the endless loop bug is game breaking. Some players being unable to connect at all is also pretty catastrophic. Items being bound without confirmation or warning with the auction house is pretty terrible but perhaps more easily dealt with in the short run by acknowledging it and spreading the word. Vanaduke having a glitched mask color is much less urgent, but still a blatant sign that the devs' bug list is long and they are working on it.

Tl;dr: give them a chance. I know the list has been around for a long time but the glitches described are pretty hard to fix and the balance issues are pretty huge changes that can't be decided on a whim especially because, let's face it, we are an awfully exigent and entitled audience which, despite having agreed to the TOS, seem to believe we should be compensated with every little loss introduced by game changes. The game masters aren't to be confused with the game designers/coders and their being able to help is sign that at least they care about their game; the same cannot be said for a lot of other F2P MMOs.

I hope this is considered by the devs (you gotta think about it, you cant just read it once!); it seems like there's a lot of very effective ideas here that could make players and devs happy.

I was also reading another more recent thread. The poster basically agreed with your idea that it's silly not to let us store past 100 ME if our tank is full. So the solution they came up with was this:

Using Crowns and materials, you could craft EMPTY mist tanks. Your displayed tank must be filled to 100 like normal before empties begin filling.

I personally would like this too: There's no disruption of CE being bought from OOO in order to craft higher level items because one still can't deploy multiple mist tanks. We just get our time's worth of what would be rightfully ours if OOO remembered that we have lives outside the game. There would be less whining about 'not enough energy' because it allows us a 'bank' system of storing energy if you will (just without the interest).

This is a solution both to the more crown and material sinks required in the game. ALSO it encourages people to come back.

Obviously mats required would be a large amount and more than crowns required because who would be bothered crafting this if it's going to exceed market prices for CE?! And instead of specifying materials, OOO could just use numbers (say, 200 of any 1 star, 150 of any 2 star and so on). This could also help stabilise CE prices since not as many people are desperately buying CE to do extra runs (hence not generating even MORE crowns), just crafting (sinking crowns). Also it is not recommended to use energy in this craft again because of the reason just stated. Using energy to craft energy is silly.

...Has very good points, here.

The part about CE is reasonable, yes, practically everything in this game costs CE, but the monster rant?

Cmon, every problem you have with them can be resolved with a shivermist buster.
This game might look casual, but Tier 3 is meant to be hard and not a breeze to drive trough in a random group.
I might have not gone trough T3 levels yet, but thats what i think.

Read most of this huge list of balancing issues and I like them all, Points 6 and 9 being the ones most valuable to me.

lot of good points. i dont agree with all the complaints but most of them are still valid.

[7BRM]
wolvers teleporting mid attack is just plain unfair and happends relativly often from my experience.
there is nothing you can do about it. i've tried shield deflecting but that rarely works.

The complaints about getting conered and blocked by mobs just sounds like whining, i used to complain a bit but have since learned to not get into those situations. avoiding a situation like that is part of the game imo.

[9GER]
I think they are overdoing it with CE on everything. with the latest update you need the equiv of 600 ce just to attempt the new levels :/
alot of people i know are being turned off at the constant CE requirements/cost on everything. If your userbase is shrinking, things like this would be the reason :p i didnt mind buying some CE for an extended playing session or to craft high level gear sooner. but if this is how all the new content is going to be...