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The weather makes the game 10x better! Please don't ever remove again

April 17, 2013, 6:57 am
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The ambiance makes it just so much more fun to play. I know it's old news, but wow, I'm seriously paranoid you guys are going to remove it again!

Also, would some kind of way to have moving water be possible? You have moving realistic lava in the C-Crag dungeon and all the waterfalls have "moving water" effects.
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Simple Luminance idea that has probably already been proposed by others

April 17, 2013, 7:42 am
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just add a small luminance bonus to all quests.

Example "drudge aviator", make it like 1 or 2k luminance. Why not? what is the harm? You can kill critters for that much luminance in probably less time, but it's still incentive to do some quests.

It won't be OP because you have to be level 200 to be flagged for luminance anyhow. Maybe even make something called "legendary" key fragments and these lower level quests can drop a fragment that when you combine say 5 or 6 of them to make a legendary key. Definitely still not OP

Do this and I guarantee that CG will be flooded with announcements for quests. It's great that you added luminance to so many quests for example. Gear knight arrival is a great example, this quest is run so much more now that it offers up luminance.

Want to be tight with the luminance but still achieve the same results? Then add some use-able items for higher levels to these lower level quests, some things you can throw in for rewards that people still will find useful:

-Pyreal nuggets
-plentiful heal kits
- stack of health/stamina philtres
-level 8 dispell gems (with level req so its not OP, people under 150 who loot these rewards can turn them in to the NPC for a small XP bonus, just like you can do with the nexus crawler mask)
-some kind of work 10 salvage
-blue blankets
-2 MMDs
-stack of mana scarabs

I'm sure there's lots of other useful non-OP things that can be added that would still benefit higher level players.

All the work spent on some of those amazing older dungeons and they never get used! :(
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Simple Code Changes (Sev)

April 17, 2013, 9:20 am
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Please PM me with specifics. We don't want to create general threads to discuss actions that might lead to disciplinary action.

Sev~


That's a standard policy, but how about addressing the real issue.

When are programming changes going to be made to disable the built in botting system. It's simply to easy to set pets to aggro and go AFK.
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Cannot log in

April 17, 2013, 10:00 am
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I recently returned and yesterday I activated my second account. I am trying to access it from my second computer but I cannot log in consistently. I was able to last night but this morning I am having no luck. I can get to log in screen but after selecting a character and hitting Enter it just hangs up and eventually disconnects from the server.

I am able to log in just fine on my primary machine. The secondary machine is running Win7 Pro 64bit. I am using a router set up with port forwarding. Both computers have static ips. I believe firewall is disable for AC. I am at a loss. Any assistance would be much appreciated.
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I don't read threads that have incomplete thoughts as titles.

April 17, 2013, 10:47 am
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ISO Good, Anti-Ghosting Keyboard

April 17, 2013, 11:54 am
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I posted this thread a while back, but it seems it may have gotten deleted with the new forums.

Right now, my keyboard is not working with certain key combinations. One that I know of specifically is when I presse up arrow, spacebar, and left arrow. There may be other ghosting issues I don't know about.

Can anyone suggest a keyboard that is completely ghosting free?

Thanks in advance.

--Rhe
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Tinking Crowns - Appropriate Ranges

April 17, 2013, 1:54 pm
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I need to tink up some crowns to cover some high value armor. Right now my method is to loot every crown I find, run them through my calculator, and get maybe 3/10 ones in the range that somebody told me is the correct range.

What is the exact range that the crowns need to be in, in order to cover your high-value armor and only drop one crown on death?

Also, if you know the value ranges of loot crowns that will tink to this value (with either pine or gold), that would be superb.
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Can I be sure AC will work before I buy it?

April 17, 2013, 5:27 pm
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So I was a huge AC fan back when it released (in beta even) until about 2002 (go windows gaming zone?). Very fond memories, still think its one of the best designed games ever. Was shocked to discover its still running and wanted to maybe replay it a bit. Through a lot of google searching I've found that the advertised free trial isn't just "down for maintenance" but is no longer available. I've also learned that its just literally impossible for some people to connect to AC and play due to their router/modem/ISP. My question is, is there anyway I can be sure I can play BEFORE buying it? I've tried just downloading the game and logging into the launcher, but I always get the "authentication failed. please try again later" message, and I'm not sure if thats because of my internet settings or because I don't have an account that has AC purchased. Here is what I have:

ISP: Comcast (with comcast modem)
Router: Netgear Wireless N-150 model number: WNR1000 v2

I have set (under advanced>>WAN setup>>NAT filtering and set it to Open, as well as checking "Disable SPI Firewall"
I have given my PC a reserved IP and have port forwarded UDP ports 9000-9013 to that address.


I have no idea how to check if that setup will work or not. Was hoping someone could tell me how to check, or could confirm that it will, or tell me what I need to change that I have not. Thank you all in advance for trying to help me out!
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Support Link Doesnt Work

April 17, 2013, 6:45 pm
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The Economy - Broken?

April 18, 2013, 12:11 am
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I'm surprised no one has really posted about the current state of the economy.

I recently returned after Feb's patch to find MFKs, MMDs, and almost every other past commodity completely worthless. GCKs only hold value due to alt currency and Lum gems. April's shadow armor updated showed promise for the return of a shard based economy, but alas that potential was squandered.

Devs, is anything being done to fix the state of the economy?

Does anyone have any constructive feedback?



Here are more specific examples and comprehensive suggestions:

1) Money is meaningless - We don't have anything "compelling" to to spend pyreals on, so you can't "trade" them. Plus, there is too much currency stored up.
Solutions
Casino - New Tier ASAP. Augment lower tier rewards. Switch "junk rewards" to stackable tickets, which are given for random rewards from ticket NPC, facilitating gambling, reducing ground clutter, etc.
Rare Exchanger - Small chance for T3+ Rare.


2) Old currencies are worthless; content is wasted - From motes, to shards, to keys, to newer keys, to even newer keys, and so on, legacy content has been rendered obsolete, effectively wasting years of dev time and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Solutions
Re-purpose - Every time you render content useless, concurrently attempt to give it value through another vector.
Lowbie Value - Give Lowbies items with universal value (Lum Gem? Ingredient?), either through lowbie quest rewards or random rare spawns in lowbie areas (similar to the rare group spawns around Dereth?)


3) The MP is empty - Trade isn't happening on any large scale, because the economy is wrecked. If people don't put trade bots in the MP, you lose $12/m that you could have otherwise been receiving from that trade bot. Oh, and you'll also lose the people who leave out of frustration at a lack of economy/not being able to advance/lack of "interaction" in an MMO.
Solutions (After the above)
Attactions - Move the Casino to 1 wing, move Legendary chests to another, MAYBE a trade skills area with NPC vendors, or alt currency vendor?
Player Run NPC Trade Bots - Any chance, ever?




"So these are just some of the things we have in store for Asheron's Call in ????"
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So I just resubbed..

April 18, 2013, 1:15 am
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..only to find out that regardless of what weapon skill I spec (Finesse/Light/Heavy), each selection hinders me to only use a 3rd of the quest/loot, let's say axes, found in the game.

I don't understand why axes wouldn't just be lumped with heavy weps along with swords & maces so you don't get shafted down the line if you prefer a specific type of weapon.

A Paradox-touched axe is considered light but a P-T dagger is heavy?
Also, if I get a hollow axe but want to upgrade it to ravenous, it changes from finesse to light..

[edited by Sev]
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Rare Weapons (Are there any plans)

April 18, 2013, 6:59 am
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Will anything be done to upgrade rare weapons? Or is it basically useless looting them other than the wands. (And black thistle if you play DT)

After 12 years of AC I was lucky enough to loot my first high tier rare (well first loot generated one, PKs excluded)

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...hot00009-3.jpg

I looted a rare atlatl. Now it looks decent as heck, but it will NEVER be used.. It would have been barely viable before the new weapons came out, now theres no point to ever bring it off the wall hook.

Each rare weapon, in itself is THE rarest weapon in the game, hence the name. But it's subpar to an hour of hunting and looting a regular weapon..

While im happy to have looted it, should I go ahead and forget I did, or will it ever be at LEAST better than loot weapons. It's bad enough it's an atlatl nobody will ever ever ever use, but at least make it better than the other atlatls.
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Coming back to missing characters

April 18, 2013, 7:09 am
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So a week ago I reactivated my main account. I usually enjoy running a particular quest as my way of celebrating another year of getting through my busy season at work. When I downloaded the updates and logged in I had no characters on my account. I see there is a bug and follow the procedure to get it fixed. As of yet it isn't and I haven't even been contacted other than the auto-response email that was made when I submitted the ticket. I think I need to find another means of celebration. Many of my accounts apparently have this bug because when I checked them they had multiple AC subscriptions linked to them where there should have only been one per account.

So I guess my question is, can this be fixed pronto? If not, can you please just cancel the reactivation and refund the monthly fee and I'll go quietly into the good night?
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Devs, do you feeel any remorse? 13 years or hard work, basically shut down.

April 18, 2013, 8:19 am
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I think the February changes did not balance the game. We have been all through this 100 times. Archers are getting away with murder! They don't miss while melees cannot hit things even with max possible skill.

It pains me greatly to see some Dev come on here and express how pleased they are with their balancing changes. Well, the players aren't pleased. The ones who have enough balls to come here and say anything are chased away by the big mouth Archers who wanted this garbage in the first place.

Turbine Devs, fix what you broke or lose more customers. The choice is yours.
You don't respect your paying customers (unless they are Archers with big mouths). You don't respect your melee players 13+ years of hard work on their characters.
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Long Delays with PW Reset Emails

April 18, 2013, 8:26 am
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Hey all,

At this time we are aware of an issue where password reset emails are taking a long time to arrive, sometimes hours. We are working to resolve this. Despite the delays, the password reset emails will still allow you to change your password.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.
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Game balance after the February changes.

April 18, 2013, 8:19 am
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I think the February changes did not balance the game. We have been all through this 100 times. Archers are getting away with murder! They don't miss while melees cannot hit things even with max possible skill.

It pains me greatly to see some Dev come on here and express how pleased they are with their balancing changes. Well, the players aren't pleased. The ones who have enough balls to come here and say anything are chased away by the big mouth Archers who wanted this garbage in the first place.

Turbine Devs, fix what you broke or lose more customers. The choice is yours.
You don't respect your paying customers (unless they are Archers with big mouths). You don't respect your melee players 13+ years of hard work on their characters.
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Sev or turbine team, Is this against the COC? please answer :)

April 18, 2013, 10:21 am
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I play on the Darktide server, and sometimes i go to TN "Towns Network" and a guy quickly spams Beer kegs on my toon so fast that it burdens me Max right when I'm out of portal space to kill me as soon as possible.
The way they do it is they have a two people (seen one person do it too) dude that spams it pretty fast with the give item Hotkey set and a melee tearing me down.

before people flame me, I know there is a option to turn off accept items in game but sometimes its a pain in the butt to enable/disable and this shouldn't matter.

So i went to the COC page and i saw this line

Disruptive behavior, including, but not limited to, acts that degrade the Asheron’s Call online service performance or other players’ client Software (for example, dropping excessive items or summoning excessive portals).

Does this also apply to dropping excessive items on a toon to quickly burden for a unfair kill?
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Forum logging out people too quickly?

April 18, 2013, 12:59 pm
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Is it just me getting logged out of the forums every 2 minutes now?

Could have something to do with the fact that the forums seem to be performing slowly, too.
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Scheduled Maintenance: Friday, April 19th from 8:00 to 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT)

April 18, 2013, 1:04 pm
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The Asheron's Call 1 and 2 Game Servers, web sites and http://myaccount.turbine.com will be offline for maintenance on Friday, April 19th from 8:00 to 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT). Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!
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Scheduled Maintenance: Friday, April 19th from 8:00 to 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT)

April 18, 2013, 1:05 pm
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The Asheron's Call 2 Game Servers, web site and http://myaccount.turbine.com will be offline for maintenance on Friday, April 19th from 8:00 to 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT). Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!
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