PeregrineFalcon

May 10

1 hour ago, Oklahoman said:

Kinda sus that people are afraid of making it easier to see a global, imo.

Well, you have to remember that these are the same people who, in the thread about streamers, posted that they'd have panic attacks if their character appeared on a live stream. And the same people who don't want to talk on VOIP with their friends, not random people, but people they've personally known for years.

So yes, there's definitely something to what you're saying. And since I don't want to be sent on yet another forced vacation from the forums I'll leave it at that.

May 9

I like the effects. And I miss the original glow of Invulnerability.

May 9

36 minutes ago, Eiko-chan said:

I got through the Council spawns I had to deal with. But I had less trouble with the IDF spawns, the Arachnos spawns, the UPA spawns. With the exact same character. And the Council was less fun.

Please assume good faith.

To be fair, you were soloing on x8. x8 literally means "this content is for a full team of eight players."

I agree with you that Council are really more annoying than challenging now. That being said there's still nothing wrong with turning your difficulty down a bit or picking another enemy group to fight.

May 9

17 hours ago, Eiko-chan said:

Where am I supposed to discuss this topic? Why the hell is the Council hard now? Who's fucking idea was this and why is it just allowed to happen!?

To answer your question, since it doesn't appear that anyone else is, a small group of people spent a little over a year spamming the forums with threads complaining that "Game too easy, bruh!" Every day there was at least one new thread with that subject. Day after day after day after day. Over and over and over and again. For over a year.

Meanwhile the Council of Thirteen checked the game metrics and noticed that a sizeable portion of the game play, that wasn't AE farming, was people steamrolling Council PI Radio missions. Day after day after day. Over and over and over again.

So they responded by creating a Hard Mode for a new task force and implied that they'll be rolling out this Hard Mode setting to other task forces in the future. But that didn't stop the onslaught of constant "Game too easy, bruh!" threads.

So they then revamped the Council and the CoT to be more difficult because that's what people who spent so much time spamming the forums wanted.

May 8

21 minutes ago, Ghost said:

Yeah, the same community manager who told everyone to flood them with bad reviews and refund requests if they wanted Sony to walk it back.

Yeah, the same community manager who was smack talking customers and who had previously said that customers were too lazy to take 120 seconds to make and link a PSN account.

And now some people are trying to lionize him by claiming that Sony would never have given in if not for him "leading the charge." When, in fact, he just told people to do what they were already doing, and he didn't lead a damn thing.

He flat out deserved to be fired, in my opinion.

May 8

9 minutes ago, Ghost said:

What a disaster

They we’re getting rave reviews from gamers, and they’ve gone and made a mess of things

Well, now that Sony made the announcement reverting the change people mostly went and changed their reviews. And it generated a ton of publicity online so ultimately it will probably generate more sales.

Oh, and they fired the community manager and demoted one of their mods over things that they posted in the official discord that weekend. So while people are still vilifying Sony over it, Arrowhead has come through pretty much looking like the hero in all of this.

May 8

36 minutes ago, Ghost said:

It’s even worse knowing that they knew this would be required upon release, but delayed it 6months - and still sold it to areas that can’t get PSN……without saying a word

Yes. And on top of that some of the places where you can buy it you're not able to make and/or make alterations to a PSN account online, like you can in many places, you're required to do so only on a console for some reason.

However, people who already purchased it in places where you can't make a PSN account can still play it, for now, but people in those areas can't buy it anymore so no new players from those countries.

And, despite Sony tweeting out that they've decided not to "move forward" with requiring PSN account linking it still says on the Steam page that PSN account creation and linking is required.

May 7

May 6

Yes, what happened over the weekend is quite the story.

tl;dr: Sony announced Friday afternoon that PC gamers would have to create and link Playstation Network accounts to their Steam account. Over the weekend gamers review bombed the game and requested refunds. Despite not being normally eligible for a refund Steam support was granting them anyway. Monday morning Sony execs walked into the office, freaked out when they saw the new review score, freaked out even more when they saw the report from Steam showing how much money they'd lost to refunds, and immediately released a statement canceling the forced PSN linking.

33 minutes ago, Oubliette_Red said:

Would they have about-faced if Steam hadn't offered refunds to the players no matter how long they have played?

Almost certainly not. Sony has a well earned reputation for being every bit as evil as EA.

May 6

5 minutes ago, Number Six said:

Oh, ok, the 14th is the the "Homecoming" account. That doesn't count. That's not a person, it's a staff use general account we all have access to for posting announcements (kind of like Curator is for patch notes except a different group can use that one). Like a PR mailbox so people don't get confused and ping one person because they happened to be the one to post the announcement.

Ah, I stand corrected, sir.

So The Council of Thirteen it is and The Council of Thirteen it shall remain.

May 6

31 minutes ago, Number Six said:

But it's 14 now? Who got promoted???

If you do a member search on the forums for City Council it literally shows 14 members. Hence The Council of Fourteen.

I think it was Widower who was promoted. He used to be listed as Head GM, now he's shown as a member of the council.

May 6

47 minutes ago, Purrfekshawn said:

But people don't fill database with zillion of junk characters somehow?

Do you spend your time searching through other people's characters? Of course not so it doesn't really make a difference. However, it is difficult to search for the kind of mission you want to play if it's drowned in a zillion junk missions. The devs have said that's the reason that they limit the number of MA slots.

I'm not a dev though so there's no point in trying to argue with me about it. I'm just the messenger.

May 5

13 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:

The city council is new, the people on it aren't. Chances are you've interacted with them over the years. It's not a shadowy cabal sitting round a table in hoods with their faces in shadow.

They actually are a shadowy cabal, I don't know who they are, most of us plebes don't know who they are, and they set it up that way on purpose. Initially I'm sure it was to shield themselves and their careers should NCSoft decide to play hardball, so I certainly don't blame them for that. They may not have hoods, or even a table, but they a cabal who operates from the shadows. That's not an insult, merely a statement of fact.

13 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:

As for unpinning the post, I've done the same myself on occasion when contacted by the original poster.

Sure, but that's not what happened with PK, and you know it. You say there's no malice involved and maybe you're right. But from where I'm at, on the outside looking in, it sure looked like there was in that particular case.

Look, I didn't mean for my posts here to turn into criticism of The Council of Fourteen, I just contrary streak and an addiction to making sure that what's being said in conversation is factually accurate. Which, as I'm sure you can imagine, has insured that I'm pretty much always in trouble with someone.

May 5

2 hours ago, GATE-keeper said:

If they're going to limit us to 3 published missions, it would be nice if they would allow us to save over older published missions.

There is a way that you can update and then save over the old mission without having to use up multiple slots, but it's been so long since I've made missions in the MA I don't remember how to do it.

1 hour ago, Purrfekshawn said:

What is the point of limiting the account to 3 stories anyway?

So that people don't fill up the MA database with a zillion farm and/or junk missions.

May 4

3 hours ago, Snarky said:

Unmaintained or not it was still the best resource of ANY archetype. I just used it for my Dark3 Sentinel

Since when has The Council of Fourteen cared about what we use for resources?

Have we all just forgotten what they did when working on updating Force Fields? They deleted PKs posts in their feedback threads and then, once it went live, unceremoniously unpinned his thread and then they quietly pretended that nothing had happened.

On 5/2/2024 at 11:26 PM, GM Crumpet said:

Ah, but will you get the answer you want? 😛

The reason why I suggested to the OP that he ask you specifically is because in the past you've always shown enough respect for the players to at least get us an answer. And we all understand that you're not in charge so even if the answer is "never gonna happen and go F yourself" I'm ok with that because at least you took the time and effort to get us the answer.

Unlike others on The Council of Fourteen who spent years ignoring our requests for updated information but then one day went out of their way to give the info that we'd been asking for to MOP.

May 3

Yes. If you open a support ticket you can ask for more Mission Architect slots.

My understanding is that if you're making actual story missions, and not farm missions, they'll give you more slots.

May 3

12 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:

That would be nice, but we are stuck with the database functionality we have. Unless we wipe the database and start again with a new database (which I shudder to think how bad that would go down) it's probably impossible

You think the forum flames are bad whenever Rage is talked about, oh boy. I can only imagine what that would be like. 🔥 😱 🔥

May 3

Man, I thought I was bad just perusing the forums while at work. But playing the game?

I'd never get any work done.

May 3

1 hour ago, Ghost said:

With the condescending names he uses, and the way he publicly takes shots at players who leave - I’m actually surprised he’s able to put a team togethet

Personally I don't mind the drill instructor leadership method, but it only works if the drill instructor actually knows what he's doing.

May 3

4 minutes ago, Underfyre said:

I spent a ton of time on those write ups.

I think your best bet would be to ask @GM Crumpet He may not be able to help, but he'll at least get you an answer.

May 2

1 hour ago, ZacKing said:

Ok so just for my future reference, I'd like to understand something - are we not allowed to offer differing opinions or perspectives on topics related to bases any longer?

I think it's more a matter of "there's a time and a place for everything."

For example: when a coworker sends out an email to everyone that says "Friday will be my last day at work. The company is downsizing and has eliminated my position." That's really not the best time/place to respond with "Oh good. Nothing against you, but I don't think that your position was really necessary and I'm glad the company has eliminated that position." Do you see where that just might be a social faux pas?

And that's basically what you, and others, did. I'm sure that's not what you intended, but that's how it came across.

May 2

1 minute ago, Glacier Peak said:

Have you tried teammates?

Standard response incoming: "What?!? How dare you suggest that I should have to join a team in an MMO?!? I should be able to solo everything. EVERYTHING!!!!!"

May 1

@Glacier Peak, both Ravenstorm and Rockjaw have now joined as well. 😁

May 1

5 minutes ago, MoonSheep said:

“why isn’t my blaster a scrapper?”

Why would you make fun of a new person who's asking for advice?

Man, I love how the people on this forum will speed-hammer the report button because "Falcon Man is a big meanie, he hurt my fee-fees, wah!" But then you'll go out of your way to make fun of a new person who's asking for help. WTF is wrong with you?!?

April 30

For what it's worth Dacy, I'm glad that you and Bunny were the Base CR's, and I think you both did an excellent job.

I think that the Council of Fourteen, and the player base, both benefit from having someone in a community relations position. Contests and events and being able to speak with someone with an official title about concerns goes a long way toward maintaining interest and retaining players.

I spent years on the retail forums trying to get the developers to do something with bases and I even talked the official base dev (yes, there actually was one for about 8 months) to post in the base builders forum. While I haven't really been involved with the base community here on Homecoming, it warmed my black heart, just a little, to see that there were still people like you and Bunny and others who were still enthusiastic about base building.

I hope that becoming unofficial doesn't kill your enthusiasm or your desire to keep running contests and events. But if it does that's the Council's failure, not yours.

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