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#541 User is offline   delacroix 

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Posted 07 January 2012 - 05:30 PM

View PostAter Eva, on 07 January 2012 - 03:57 PM, said:

Still in leash of NCSofts asian HQ.


ah ok ty for that.

View PostRaiya, on 07 January 2012 - 04:33 PM, said:

Let me throw a bone out here and see if we could get any idea on what can be done.

With the changeover and all is it possible for GF to deal with the big 3 Problems atm that seem to be severely crippling the growth of the game

1)RNG (RandomNumberGenerator aka RandomBullnyerkGenerator). This has been a problem for along time but it SEVERELY affects the likes of Enchanting and Manasocketing. These 2 alone have caused alot of people to get fedup and quit because their hard earned money dissapears due to pathetic BS mechanics and the only solution so far has been suppliments (which effectively means pay to buypass a "broken mechanic"). Would it be possible to make a change to say change Manasocketing so that if Green Manastones fail then only that Stone is lost, Rather than losing every single stone thats slotted? This would be fairer since even if you lose alot of stones your progress would not be lost. The same could also be said of Enchanting. Could it be possible to change this as well to eliminate loss of Enchant level below lvl10 if a stone fails? Even making these fixes would please alot of people and solve the ragequitting from loss of progress.

Aion is built around rng, the best way they can do is make cash shop 100% socket/enchant (which kr has), or get it through events (pvp events which rewards these YEA!). Anything worth something given as rewards especially these 100% socket enchants players will participate, just like the manastone/enchant pack. People actually started to make a bazillion alts for em. Why not have it similar?


2) Magic Resist (aka MR abusers). This mechanic is one of the most over abused, Overused and Broken Mechanics in the game, noone can say its "working as inteneded" when high MR basically allows you to exist in god mode and resist every debuff, DoT, Magic attack and CC. Evasion donesnt allow more than 30% or so Evasion so could this be fixed so that Magic cant be resist any more than Physical Evasion or that MR reduces Damage and Debuff/CC durnation? This I can understand is something of a harder thing to change but even the new Magic Cancellation Stat with 3.0 doesnt change the fact that MR is a broken mechanic.

This needs to be dealt with asap. A soft cap is a must, and since the 2nd best defensive stat is evasion, Mr should be less than 30% imo. Since block is 50%/parry is 40/eva 30 etc it would make sese for mr to be softcapped at 20%.

3) Lack of Real pvp (Zergs r bad k?) Atm Endgame consists of nothing more than zerg zerg zerg due to the fact thatthere is so little room to pvp. (Too many Guards and patrols in key choke points and agressive mobs everywhere) Would it be possible to get several mobs families around zones 3 and 2 changed from aggressive to passive (Exceptions being balaur and some mob types) and also have Omega and Ragnarock change to passive mobs (due to their inability to spawm properly half the time and dodgy aggro range) or just moved out of the way. In addition would it be possible to just leave direct TP's to Silentera open rather than require the forts to get through to silentera? (Silentera is actually a perfect pvp zone but because both forts from each side are required to enter this has led to a situation where noone wants to attack the other factions fort because they lose access to Besh/PvP if they lose even one fort.

People zerg gelk/ing/sc cuz of dailies. If they don't do dailies they will always group up because alot of us are scared of a challenge and/or just wanna play with friends. There has not been any way to rduce/stop zergs in a faction mmo, not ever..

Edit: Theres also the small fact that we got 2 tickets at 2.7 launch and this was nerfed even tho the community was furious at this and did not want it would this be reversed or fixed?

It was originally meant to be 1. We had 2 cuz of patch bug, it was updated in kr, eventually we had it.


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Posted 07 January 2012 - 05:42 PM

Ok clarification at this point needed. Maybe something got confused *scratch*

Flagging your account doesn't necessarily mean you get Veteran status.
You can flag your account for the opt-in no matter if you play the game for months and thus payed for it or just started an account because you were curious and want to check the trial time. The opt-in mainly means: save your account and your characters.
However only people who have payed atleast one month should be able to get Vet. Trials will stay Starter.
This will be double-checked with all the flagged accounts.
That's direct info I have.

Maybe something got misunderstood at this point or it is just late and I am really tired.

Can you do me a favor at this point and forward the mail you received from our support to my mail address: blackvelvet@aionfreetoplay.com
I want to directly check what they wrote. And if necessary get the info and either correct their reply or my reply.
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Posted 07 January 2012 - 07:59 PM

View PostPuddi, on 07 January 2012 - 05:13 PM, said:

@CMBlackValvet I sent an email to your support and you asked if the trial account can be flagged(and it can be) and get the veteran status.The answer i got was YES, we get the veteran status if we played the trial.I am not the only one who sent an email with this question, the others got the same answer as mine.Next time much comunication between you and the rest of your team.
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Posted 08 January 2012 - 02:20 AM

Meh its exactly the way it should be, people effectively getting veteran status for free would be sh1t...

@ decla/raiya - When i first heard f2p was coming I assumed competitive items in cash shop to make up for no subscription charge. Gold = Subscription charges... Few people, incl myself, will not want to spend money in cash shop = deal with rng. Already asked, and been answered to some extent, how much they can change the game, not much...

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Posted 08 January 2012 - 04:21 AM

now would be nice to have my post back , since i did only said the truth even if in a hard way , so who was right :shakeit:
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#546 User is offline   Ater Eva 

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Posted 08 January 2012 - 03:44 PM

This' asked before but still left unanswered (sorry to repeat someone elses question).

What will be your policy on dual/multiboxing on same faction? Allowed/unallowed?
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 02:16 AM

Any date for the f2p change yet? February is less than 1 month away :)
Also I would like to know who is right, if the support or Velvet about that trial thing. And do 15 days timecards count to be flagged as Veterans? I mean, what if someone bought the game, tried it out for the free month, bought a 15 days time card and then left Aion? Or must it be a full paid month?
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 03:24 AM

View PostMisty, on 09 January 2012 - 02:16 AM, said:

Any date for the f2p change yet? February is less than 1 month away :)
Also I would like to know who is right, if the support or Velvet about that trial thing. And do 15 days timecards count to be flagged as Veterans? I mean, what if someone bought the game, tried it out for the free month, bought a 15 days time card and then left Aion? Or must it be a full paid month?


12th february :)
I assume it's a full paid month or else it wouldn't be fair lol

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 03:31 AM

Ahhhh, I forgot the date then. Thank you ^_^
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 03:39 AM

View PostEdeline, on 09 January 2012 - 03:24 AM, said:

12th february :)
I assume it's a full paid month or else it wouldn't be fair lol


guess I'll have to resub +1month again, was planning to take a break starting Jan 20 but since aion f2p isn't starting on Feb 1st and it starts in Feb fking middle of month then... :snowman: :snowman: :snowman: :snowman:
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 04:05 AM

Breaks rock! The reason for taking them doesnt always though
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 05:17 AM

AION does not have the quantity and the quality of in-game content that justifies such high monthly sub. I'd say a monthly fee of 1 shilling per month in UK or a quarter a month in US will probably be alright.

Most games will follow Turbine's route that they took w/ LoTRO. GW2 is pretty much LoTRO edition 2. Quest pack, dungeon pack, zone pack etc. will be there in GW2. AION needs to be completely free 2 play as this game needs a huge zerg or a massive number of bots to sustain its economy. It works in KR because botting and RMT are not looked down upon there. While boasting the highest number of video game addicts in their country they also log in the highest number of overtime hours at work for any nation. I wonder what do they do at work, lol.

Anyhow, AION is done with. NC pounded it to the ground by themselves. Don't blame anyone else for the ramifications.
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#553 User is offline   Ater Eva 

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 06:23 AM

View Postvela, on 09 January 2012 - 05:17 AM, said:

AION is done with. NC pounded it to the ground by themselves.

Yes and no.

No, because EU community was too stupid at first to understand advantages of having bots/RMT roam free (forcing NCWest act, due to complaints).

Yes, because NCWest should've simply kept same policies as in KR...NCWest failed pretty bad with events too, the whole NCWest department looked like bunch of clueless people doing slow bad translation of the game (this from POV of a player; can't know what happened there in reality if better/worse).

View Postvela, on 09 January 2012 - 05:17 AM, said:

AION does not have the quantity and the quality of in-game content that justifies such high monthly sub.

Matter of opinion, personally I'm happy to pay 10€ per month for Aion, untill GW2 is released.
If it doesn't suit you, that's your choice.

edit: typo

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 12:40 PM

Personnaly I'm happy to pay 50€ for skyrim
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 05:19 PM

Back to the Trial -> Veteran status rumors:
I poked the relevant resources and the rumors are not true.
As I stated before, a trial account can get flagged to save his account/character progress but however will stay Starter after the changeover.
Retail accounts which spent minimum one subscription (the boxed cd key can be considered as a subscription) will receive Vet after the changeover.
This was a mistake by our support and probably misunderstood. It will be corrected.
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 05:27 PM

Veteran rewards will stay available? And will your company continue same veteran reward program that NCsoft does?
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 06:31 PM

Veteran rewards are only for the gold pack peeps. But we will continue in a similar fashion yes.
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 07:14 PM

So the old rewards that we have accumulated over previous years will be available to claim only if you purchase gold pack? Or old ones will not be relevant anymore
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 11:03 PM

Will paysafecard still be available ?
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Posted 10 January 2012 - 02:23 AM

View PostCMBlackVelvet, on 09 January 2012 - 05:19 PM, said:

Back to the Trial -> Veteran status rumors:
I poked the relevant resources and the rumors are not true.
As I stated before, a trial account can get flagged to save his account/character progress but however will stay Starter after the changeover.
Retail accounts which spent minimum one subscription (the boxed cd key can be considered as a subscription) will receive Vet after the changeover.
This was a mistake by our support and probably misunderstood. It will be corrected.


Ah, so the free month which comes with buying the game is considered a subscription! I didn't think so.
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