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Quote:While I am sympathetic to people with nut allergies because I love cashews, peanuts, pistachios, etc. I'm begging you, please, don't make me choose between you. You won't win.Originally Posted by Garielle
You can't find it cause I burned it. I am highly allergic to peanut butter, so if I were to accidentally steal a peanut butter cookie while I was stealing all your OTHER cookies, it could be fatal. You wouldn't want my death on your hands, now would you?
However I'm more than willing to eat all the peanut butter cookies to protect you. -
I've decided to keep the character. It was refreshing to play old style without all the perks I've earned. Tho my power tray felt distressingly empty.
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I've done a DfB with three people successfully. The fourth quit when he saw there were only 4 people on the team. Wasn't easy but we did it.
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Quote:Sure they do. We just make them associate with us Yanks. Whether they like it or not.Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague
The players in the middle-east, Asia and Australia don't have servers dedicated to them like the Brits, French and Germans.
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Ponies, a big red ball, and a moon zone.
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Quote:I prefer to look at these downtimes as if I'm waiting to open a present. So instead of getting frustrated I'm impatiently waiting to play with my new toys.Originally Posted by McCharraigin
/this.
I may not be happy when I want to play and can't because of downtime, but, the new stuff added makes up for that.
Balance in everything.
Hmm..can you imagine how boring a perfect world would be????
If it were not for the bad times, we would never be able to savor, or even recognize, the good times in our lives...
So, downtimes are good for our souls
Lisa.
Lisa.
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Quote:Our players from the Middle East (mostly active duty military that have computer/internet access) and Asian/Aussie players could make the same argument.Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague
To be fair, this is during prime time for the european players so they probably could've started it a couple hours earlier.
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Quote:I swear you don't look a day over 21.Originally Posted by McCharraigin
Err...I refuse to tell my age because I don't look like, or feel my age, but I am old enough that there is no way you can consider me a child.
Just because we are , gulp, "old" farts does not mean we no longer have to be polite. We can be more open with what we say as we have been there, done that, but, these youngsters probably know far more than us in certain things...I think it might have been our generation that was terrified to turn on one of those new fangled computers for fear it would explode or something silly like that
Anyways, telling people you don't care about their opinions seems...like something Lord Recluse would do
It is a perfectly fine thing to vent though. Cole knows I am not happy with the downtime either...but I cooked a wonderful breakfast, washed a ton of mismatched socks, and am now sitting at the computer about to read up on the Incarnate system since it seems we are finally to get a solo path
Hugs.
Lisa.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
Your lack of historical perspective on this is disturbing...
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Quote:I thought a middle of the road server was an appropriate test. I also conducted the test during the morning to mid afternoon hours in the US when there are fewer players online overall.Originally Posted by Sailboat
I guess "lower pop server" is relative. Yeah, Justice's population is lower than Virtue or Freedom, but it's almost always in the top five, sometimes even #3, more often #4.
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Quote:So cancel your sub. It's not like it means anything since you'll still be able to play the game. The only difference is that you'll have less access to content and you won't get any free points to use in the store, so you'll be spending some if not more of your money on Paragon points. The company gets your money one way or the other.Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
I agree with the original poster. Why should I continue to subscribe if there is this much downtime?
This is a terrible trend the last two months, and frankly I am starting to weigh my options. -
Quote:That's just a happy bonus.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Fair enough. I don't pay close attention and just assume that they'll take the servers down whenever it will annoy me most.
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Quote:Doesn't matter when they do it. There will always be people complaining.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Thursday is the usual maintenance window, but big batches are on Tuesdays.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Gray_walker
Well, it's scheduled for 6 hrs. That's generally something big. Plus now as I type they've shut us down for Thursday maintenance. WTH devs? Should I just quit and come back tomorrow or what
I post very very rarely. Normally I'm content to let the rest of you deal with posting. But dammit, these guys are pissing me off an awful lot lately.
OMG! Your telling us they had the unmitigated gall to actually shut down for a regularly scheduled maintenance on top of doing a live publish at the same time!
How dare they do two things at once! You should cancel your subscription in protest.
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Quote:While the whole episode is an aggravation for me the only real pain in the pancake was that one of the third party vendors tried to resubmit the charges that Amazon cancelled which were made to them by the crook so they could get paid for their services, and I had to start another claim with the bank to block them again.Originally Posted by Tyger42
Had someone try that on my account a couple months ago. My account which I hadn't even remembered setting up for my new debit card. ( I had, just forgot ) Someone managed to break into the account and tried to by a $50 Playstation Network card. I got the receipt via email, called them, and they had the refund issued within an hour of the charge having been made ( took 2 days for the refund to actually process through the banks...which is stupid, they can sure's hell pull out instantly. But that's on the banks, not Amazon ) and the debit card deleted from my account. I changed my password the instant I got home. ( Couldn't do that through my iPhone )
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I have to give props to Amazons people. They caught someone trying to make fraudulent charges on my credit card this past weekend and their quick action gave me enough time to notify my bank before the charges were even posted to my account and set up monitoring for any future attempts to track down the villain. I'll be getting my new cards in a few days.
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Quote:I respectfully disagree on that server merge example Tyger. I believe regardless of which server is older, the server with the lowest current population is going to be the one that bites the bullet and has to accept getting name changes where conflicts arise.Originally Posted by Tyger42
Yeah, it is relevant which server list was there first. When the global name system went in isn't, however. Just as with server merges in MMOs, oldest "server" takes precedent on names.
Now in a hybrid business model where there are paying subscribers and free players I can see a company giving preferential treatment to the subscribers where naming conflicts arise. -
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Quote:And maybe they'll simply avoid all the headaches involved in this idea and never allow it.Originally Posted by Silver Sanguis
Maybe it could be done arbitrarily by support rather than making it an unsupervised service? Besides, this mostly applies only to older VIP accounts (which could be a restriction) which still have seperate eu/us accounts or otherwise, restricting it to accounts older than 2 years?
Guess what I'm putting my money on. -
Quote:Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
If they don't already play the game, or any other NCSoft game, how are they to know they AREN'T buying the master account?
That's kind of the point when you sell an account to someone: You sell it to someone who doesn't know any better.
And even if they sold the Master Account login/password they can still steal it back by contacting CS and claiming their account was hacked. Who is NCSoft more likely to believe? The person with all the original account information or the dumb schmuck who only knows the login and password and has just started changing the original owners information from a completely different IP address most likely located in another city/state or even another country.
And we haven't even addressed the topic of selling the same account information to multiple people at the same time. -
They just didn't take it out. I think the Rikti Crash Site is still in the game as well as Galaxy City and the original Faultline, tho I could be wrong about that last one.
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Quote:Here's a short youtube video of it made by KitsuneKnight.Originally Posted by flipside
The Blue Room? Does anyone know of screenshots of said place? I've neither heard of it before nor seen it.
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Quote:What we can't talk about is the specific correspondence between a player and the devs/gm's/CS. General discussions about policy are okay.Originally Posted by Twilightdusk
*reads* Huh, umm, don't go into what the GM said then.
Odd, I could have sworn I saw a thread discussing character names getting generic'd recently and that also seems to go against that rule
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Quote:No stay out of what the GM/CS said altogether. That's a clear violation of forum rules and will get the OP in trouble.Originally Posted by Twilightdusk
Seriously dude, it would be easier to side with you if you'd tell us what the issue was and (paraphrasing of course) what the GM said in response.
Unless of course you know that we wouldn't side with you on the issue in which case you should probably stop wasting our and that GM's time. -
Quote:Which is what I said. You got an answer you don't want to accept and you aren't willing to say anything here because we might say the same thing CS told you.Originally Posted by MAD UMLAUTS
What happened is im not getting an answer to my question at all and getting unrelated copy pasta mixed with assumptions without checking anything in game even though they could.
Keep your guesses to yourself in the future.
I've worked in CS for many years in the past and have been told by a supervisor to answer with a standard pre-made response because there was no answer for some of the bizarre questions we'd get asked.