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Feedback Friday - 21st December 2007
21st December 2007 16:00 Posted by Avatea
It’s that time of week again, your chance to find out what we’ve been up to and to have some of your burning questions answered!
Statistics from the last 2 weeks:
- 855 mission rewards have been re-evaluated and replaced with new items.
- 38 instances now have portable waypoints at the beginning of the mission to make it faster to go back to the beginning.
- 857 bugs fixed!
- Over $1700 raised for Child’s Play Charity.
Do General British, General Darkstarr, SFC Sarah Morrison, etc., have a server preference? It’s been a while since I’ve seen them in-game and sometimes I wonder if I chose a server they don’t play on?
The Dev and Community Reps do not just stay on one server, but make an appearance on all servers through different events. In fact, you can catch Sarah Morrison, General British, and Dev_Critters for a Roleplay Event at Foreas Base during DE Day (Defeat of Earth Day) to remember fallen victims and Earth. Check out the details here.
With the dramatic changes with attributes coming to PTS, will you give another respec?
Yes, we do plan to give out another repec (this time with a clean attribute list) for the next patch.
Can you warn players when you get a timed mission?
You should get an indicator when you receive a timed mission. If you find that you don’t, that would be a bug, and will need to be submitted to our QA department. Also, if you do fail a mission in Tabula Rasa, you will most likely be able to retake it.
Sacrifice seems to have changed, but I don’t see a patch note.
Patch note for sacrifice, 1.2 instead of 1.3, sorry about that. The Sacrifice ability was providing damage bonuses that were much higher than intended. These have been corrected to the values given on the ability tooltips.
Hi, I am not able to access instances: Hallowing Death Burrow and Sanctus Grotto.
The instances are not online at the moment, but should be open in the next build. However, the Faultlever instance should be open. If for some reason you can’t get in, please let us know.
What do I do when someone is spamming in chat?
You can do two things; the first is to /ignore the player so that their chat no longer appears on your screen. Also, you can /petition the player so that Game Support can warn the player or remove them from the game.
I can’t find my auction after the server restart.
Don’t worry, the Military Surplus takes a few minutes to show up after the server is restarted.
Sometimes I can’t target a mob that is shooting at me from a long distance. Is it my computer settings or the game?
Being able to see and target a mob within certain distances depends on many factors including the size of the mob, the map, the type of weapon you are using, your computer settings, etc. We are investigating this issue to see if there is something we need to address and will update you if there is a change.
Why is my Blue item better than my Purple?
Since adding item rarity, we’ve received some reports of certain weapon stats not living up to their new colour status. These items are being evaluated currently by our developers and will be addressed in an upcoming patch.
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Click on the following links if you want to have a look at the previous Feedback Friday newsposts:
Feedback Friday – 14th December 2007
Feedback Friday – 7th December 2007
Feedback Friday – 30th November 2007
Feedback Friday – 23rd November 2007
Feedback Friday – 16th November 2007
Feedback Friday – 9th November 2007
Feedback Friday - 2nd November 2007
Feedback Friday - 26th October 2007
Feedback Friday - 19th October 2007
Comments
Great Feedback. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
Ammo costs are crippling me. Level 50 mobs drop around 250 credits and take 3-4 shots to kill, which with a level 50 electric rifle (one of the more ammo-efficient weapons in the game), that’s a cost of 300-400 credits spent (3-4 x Elite Grade Power Cells @ 100cr each). Other, less efficient weapons (example, Polarity gun, pistols, shotguns) cost even more.
Is anything being considered to redress the imbalance between the value of monster kills/rewards and the rising cost of ammo?
try to get vehicles in the game
ciao voliu dgokare
I have to say the proactive addressing of the games problems gives me some hope that there may finaly be a world worth sticking to. I have been playing these types of games from the start LOL yes i got EQ the day it came out. I just hope that the folks that dev for Tabula Rasa dont get bord and just give up or that they dont give in to the petty little people that just want to get good gear and stand around and say hey look at me i got good gear. so please dont go cear bear like all the games before TR (EQ. wow ect....) Here is to a game that lasts a long long time ....
This weeks major concern is spam:
Over christamas this has reached new heights of insanity with half a dozen spambots spewing gold selling adverts into channels /1 and /2.
Ignoring them no longer works, the accounts they use change at 30 minute intervals and besides, the ignore lists are maintained on a per character basis rather than per account so if I log on a clone I have to ignore them all over again.
Fortunately the spammers have not cottoned on to the trick of using “unusual” (i.e. non western european) characters in their names - once they start doing that (which will be soon) then those of us with UK or US keyboards will not be able to ignore them at all.
This is ridiculous from the point of view that instead of looking at the lag in Mires or adding content you folks will have to try and deal with these parasites.
Best of luck!
<From Avatea> Thanks for the heads up, our dev team is devising a system to address this issue, we apologise for the inconvenience to all of you who have to put up with this!
Please fix the bug with the transfer to/from the footlocker soon.