CanadianCurseword wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2015 at 2:25pm:


I get really bored with soloing, and there's been sweet FA in terms of LFMs in my timezone (UK, although playing for an hour in the day these days)

This is a horrible event. Who on earth decided it was a good idea? Can you buy the "mimic repellant" aka make the event go away items for plat, are they in bulk, or is this some kind of stupid bullshit I have to do each time I log in? What the hell?

KilgoreTrout wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2015 at 5:09am:


Asshole.

qweeve wrote on Jan 21^st, 2015 at 10:26pm:



THIS!

Terebinthia wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2015 at 7:05am:


the sad part is the devs are probably high fiving themselves for having allowed an opt-out system.
As always, I just don't think they thought it through very well.
This is the type of stuff the PC could give feedback on and stop the daft ideas making it this far...   

5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2015 at 2:17am:


Hey, I am not the person who shat out this pathetic excuse for an event.

FuckThisShit wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2015 at 12:03pm:


No delusions at all, but this is how the PC could help Turdbine.
I don't think PC members being vocal was a problem - it was the reading/listening part on the other side.

apep wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2015 at 11:32pm:


Hall of Heroes is the Pet Project of one specific current dev. Everything is good to make it useful, even the most useless, spiteless, stupid things.
If they had had a clue it would have been a fucking Store Potion, 25 TP for an hour. Not a fucking NPC in an area with delusions of grandeur.

DropBear wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2015 at 8:16am:


Except that right now they are rolling out stuff at double speed : there is no PC to pile on them... the 2014 one has been fired monday, and the 2015 one hasn't been chosen yet.
Oh and they can still roll out things without showing them to the PC, it's not as if they didn't do it all the time last year.

Angry wrote on Jan 24^th, 2015 at 4:28am:


I agree but isn't the opt-out in the Hall of Heroes or is that just a plug for Lammania?
I too am interested to see what happens after you have motes, as that part is all to vague at the moment.
Why the hell don't they just use the Mabar Interface.
In fact, just use the Mabar mats and dump the whole stupid mimic idea.

Angry wrote on Jan 24^th, 2015 at 5:23am:

the opt out is free, the "mimic bait" is instore.
not that this makes the event any less retarded.
i mean, seriously, just imagine the amount of behind the scene calculations going into every damn chest in every damn server to either paint it a mimic or not, then god forbid the server reaches limit and ALL chests become mimic, think "3bc/mabar opens" lag but multiply it times every cunt running a quest/raid in the entire fuckin game.
now i dont have a way of knowing what infrastructure changes have been applied to the hardware at turbine, but if i can force a whole raid instance to DC against their will just by spamming a few visual effects with calculations on my character alone then it wouldnt be too hard to predict the whole server crashing instantly when trying to perform so many calculations and changes at the time.
like seriously, who comes up with that kinda stupid shit?

We're being trolled by turbine now.

qweeve wrote on Jan 24^th, 2015 at 2:32pm:


That is actually a relatively easy fix if they listen to feedback.
The hard part still remains - how some in a party opt in and some opt out and how this works.

Revaulting wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 3:31pm:


Because they know the Risia/Midwinter stuff is complete shite, whilst Mabar gear was useful?

I don't think it was primarily the duping, more likely they wanted a "new innovative" collectible system to stimulate excitement in the game again.....
Yeah, how's that going Sev?