Fhrek
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Just waiting for 25% (minimum) more EXP bonus week after all those downtimes.
Downtime Notice: Thursday, July 17th 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)
- Thread starter Cordovan
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Just waiting for 25% (minimum) more EXP bonus week after all those downtimes.
Qeistalan
Well-known member
Honestly, I think the Devs are counting on "this" being a cashgrab ... for players to buy all Favor unlocks: 32-pt builds, classes ,races, enhancement trees, etc.
liosliante
Well-known member
As European players, we really have it rough when it comes to the timing of maintenance. It's always right in the middle of our playable hours.
And now, with the separated servers, it almost feels like we're being left out or treated differently.
Honestly, it’s starting to feel a bit like discrimination. I just hope no one comes at me for saying this but if someone does, I can already guess they’re probably American. I see it coming a mile away.
And now, with the separated servers, it almost feels like we're being left out or treated differently.
Honestly, it’s starting to feel a bit like discrimination. I just hope no one comes at me for saying this but if someone does, I can already guess they’re probably American. I see it coming a mile away.
williambraveheart
Well-known member
I don't think that the build points from TR's are affected
rabidfox
The People's Champion
It can't be much of cashgrab since they've said they're working on providing a free method to deal with issues from favor & transfers.
waxinglyrical
Well-known member
"Working on" and "delivering" can often be odd bedfellows
I'm west coast USA and my best chance to play is Wednesday mornings (during the typical downtime) so I actually do feel your pain. This week is less of a problem for me personally because I work the other days of the week.
I think most of us horrible Americans are actually sad to see our Euro friends migrate to a new server, and can sympathize with bad downtimes. Isn't SSG going out of their way to set up Moonsea so your ping is better? I wonder if eventually you'll get downtimes that align better with your local timezones with the more local server? (This may benefit me as well if there's a server up when I'm able to play)
TedSandyman
Well-known member
Thanks for the advice, but I really don't want more personal contact. I want official text in writing in the Service News forum where it belongs.
I have 10 characters ready to TR as soon as I hit the new servers in order to free up space.
We'll see how that helps their server load.
TrigganNighthawk
Active member
Today was a good day to have to take my kid to the doctors. That's the truth.
TedSandyman
Well-known member
Yeah, but I doubt any of these devs have 30 years experience and that is part of the problem. Everything is FAST nowadays. No time for proper planning or best practices just get it done quick.
waxinglyrical
Well-known member
a bit like a tariff?
Dandonk
Beater of Dead Horses
The "Official" forums are pretty much a /dev/null , yes, in terms of our feedback. Meh.
BTC isn't the problem and stop pretending it is because you can't argue against the real problem.
If you want to have even a single copy of each named item you've gotten while playing you're talking many thousands of items.
I just spent 6 hours last night crunching gear into reaper shards and destroying any duplicates of gear, a lot of it Sharn and epic Sharn, even though I often run several characters that could us it. I also destroyed a lot of gear with old effects that don't exist anymore.
Even just having a voice and an epic voice for each of 20 characters is 40 slots taken up. 4 bags each is another 80 slots. 10 spell components is another 200 slots. 2 hireling contracts, stack of heal, stack of raise, 3 types of potions, another 140 slots eaten up.
Even just having leveling sets from each expansion for TRing for arcane, divine, melee and ranged is upwards of 300 pieces.
And if you're going to tell me that they way peopll should play is to just throw away all the named items they get even if they're mythic 4 and reaper, then I honestly have trouble believing the game you play is DDO and not Forum Troll.
Totally agree with you. A simple delay in the August 31 deadline till everything is fixed would avoid a lot of headaches to all players. Why is the simplest decisions are always the ones that are the hardest to take geeeezzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
Zao
Odious Bard
Pretty, pretty, pretty...cool cool.
Karadon
Old Paladin
Well I'm in EU and I understand that as a Boston based company they need to do whatever maintenance needs to be done during EST working hours as opposed to GMT/CEST. Surely you don't expect them do do their maintenance at 10/11PM at night their time when it's 3/4AM in Europe and we're all asleep?
The separated servers are the opposite of being left out IMHO - the practically untenable service we'd have to live with if we had to connect to Vegas is being eliminated at significant cost to stand up a server in the EU to cater specially to us which I'd never have expected at this age of the game. We should be grateful.
The Hessian
Member
Imho, there is truth in that, but I don't think it's the whole picture or even the main issue. And my background is 40+ years in the field.
I replied to another post earlier saying the a simple solution would be to push back the August 31 deadline till it is all fixed. Another simple solution would be to issue a redeem code to add more space to the Character bank just like they did for the Shared bank (100SLOTS). As said earlier, why are simple decisions so hard to take????
morningfrost
Well-known member
They advise players to not rush to buy options, and that a free solutions will (probably) be available.