Master-Blade

Like Tog said, in the Test forums... the fix for both Brickstown and FF was listed in the patch notes for the recent patch that just went Live.

We should be good now. If it happens again from this point forward, be sure to let people know.

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I have the email turned off on my main character, but still on for the others. I ignored it before.. I still ignore it now. I don't even know if there is any difference.

It's no problem at all. That's what I'm in the forum for!

Tina's arc/missions are 40-45. It doesn't matter what lvl you are now, the highest they will go is 45. (not including any possible effect the difficulty settings may have on the mission)

You will find the same thing if you have any really low arc still open. A lvl 20-25 arc (for example) will still only be lvl 25, and you can breeze through it as a lvl 50.

Compatible? Yes.

Officially supported? No. They don't even officially support Vista yet. lol

Enjoy the game on whatever version you want, and if you need help getting something to work, a bunch of us are ready to help you. Good Luck!

Oops, you missed my edit:

5 days between there

Patches don't typically come during normal maintenance, so it's on another day.
There was no maintenance on Monday. The announced extension of DXP weekend led me to believe there wasn't going to be one (because there wasn't one Friday either), and there wasn't. Bad luck to you for doing something else that day.

New issues have been released and bugs/features have been fixed, but as you noted, there were specific reasons for it, and it's not part of the typical schedule.

Not for nothing, but the servers are down for less than 4 hours total every week, and only 2 or 3 more hours if there happens to be a patch day as well... which is less time than WoW goes down for a single day anyway. It's certainly better than the servers going offline in the middle of the night at the drop of a hat.

If that's all the spare time you have, and Maintenance is cutting into so much of it, then yes, I'd be looking for something else to do as well... but you have to look at the bigger picture...

I do feel your pain, believe me. When my work schedule was different (5am-11am), there was almost no point even having a day off from work, because by the time I woke up, the servers would be just going offline, and by the time the servers came back online, I would have been just coming home from work anyway. (I couldn't play just before maintenance cause I slept in on my days off. 5am isn't a fun schedule! lol)

As far as not planning something on short notice.. do you mean TFs? Why don't you plan for the game to be up and put a clause (If there is a patch update, we'll start at X time instead). Nobody can fault you for the whole game going offline.

But anyway, I dealt with it and realized there were other things I could do with that time. Laundry and other cleaning, or grocery shopping is stuff you have to do anyway, so why not get it done during maintenance? Then you wont have to stop playing to get it done later on anyway.

Now, I'm lucky enough to have a different work schedule (12pm-9pm), so I simply stay up late after work and play all I want, then go to sleep during the morning hours when the server is normally down for maintenance. I can't tell the difference anymore. The server is always up by the time I wake up. lol

I dunno. I subscribe to the Announcement forum and am alerted to any changes in the schedule. You're right, they tell you late the night before, but at least they tell us now. We had to fight to get that message we never got before. We're still trying to get them to MOTD it once in a while as well so non-forum goers can see it too, but that's the way it is for now.

I hope you don't decide to quit a game just because of a couple hours of maintenance. There has to be ways around it and lots of other time for you to play, and if there is no way for you to play at other times, then I wish you luck whatever you decide.

I completely agree with you. My point was exactly that. Making a second badge character wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be, and not nearly as fulfilling as my first one... so I don't know if I would bother doing it again.. but who knows. On the other hand, because they are so much easier now, maybe the challenge is trying to get them on ALL your characters.. now THAT could take a while! lol

That arc seems to have been originally designed to be done around lvl 30-35 or so, which should spawn both groups in the mission at the same time. It's when you do the arc at a lower or higher range that you end up seeing only one group or the other, and then the story doesn't make as much sense.

Start the countdown tomorrow?

Baby, don't hurt me.

I agree with the idea to make another badge toon. Having 653 as a 39 month Vet, pretty much only missing dayjobs, I just finally decided to make another badge toon myself, but there is still a problem...

On the new badge toon:

It took less than a day to get all the Exploration/History Badges.

It took less than a week to get all the Ouro and Invention Badges. Simply craft and sell/bid inbetween arcs. The cost was minimal. I actually ended up richer by the time I was done.

It only took a couple days to get all the PvP badges, including the Blue Ink Man and other badges you get only from PvP zones as well as the 400 rep badge. I'm only missing a few more Pillboxes in RV. I have the AVs already as well.

After only 2 nights of Heal-farming while I'm asleep and at work, I'm already at almost 7 Million. I should easily have Empath by this time tomorrow. It really puts to shame the work I spent getting Empath on my original badge hunter. (1 Billion FTL. lol)

All I've got left after less than a month of even trying are the Events that are coming up, a few random defeat badges which shouldn't take long, Damage farming, and then finish off Leader as well.. which is only a handful of TFs away for that toon... (which is actually closer than my main badge hunter is to Leader, lol).

So then what after that? Do I make a Third one? I dunno. I guess I'll see when I get there. I'll be making another post in the "600" thread for my next toon shortly I'm sure. She's at 561 currently. lol

IIRC, isn't the first mission just a hunt? You can start the TF and simply relog so that the star goes to a lvl 50 for the rest of the TF.

It should work.

If you send more than one /petition, it's very likely you are going to get more than one response. The system doesn't know they are for the same issue. If you think you missed the GM and still need help, you should follow the link in your e-mail from the first /petition and update it so it goes back into their queue for help again.

Also, make sure you use the "stuck" option for any /petition you need actual help in-game with. It seems to give it a higher priority and faster response. I'm not going to say the responses are always immediate, but I've never had to wait several hours, even on a busy weekend.

As it turns out, I need to address this as well. Tabby hasn't done this trial, so I'm locked in on taking her, and she's lvl 50 of course. I don't really have anybody else remotely in range anyway.

I think he meant it this way..
I have 4 sets that give me Accuracy:
9% bonus from one Large set
15% bonus from 3 Ultimates.

But I agree with you, he doesn't have just 1 of those, because a bonus of 0.18 reflects 2 Large sets of 9% each. He might have just missed the extra one on his Set Bonus /info.

The main data is the same. You'd save yourself a lot of downloading if you keep the data there and just overwrite the main client file itself.