GM Crumpet

Hi Anything pre-Homecoming is lost forever I'm afraid.

I haven't tried the new difficulty levels, but they aren't compulsory. When I run a team on lower levels I start at +1 and see if we need to increase the difficulty or not. Sometimes it takes a little while for a team to gel and I'll say on the next mission "Increase difficulty?" then let the team decide. When I'm not running a team I've been in incarnate teams where we have romped through on +4 and an increase in difficulty isn't going to cause much problem. I've also been on +4 teams where we wipe constantly and we need to drop it down a notch. As long as the team leader is a reasonable person and not one of those "Do it my way n00b" then it's another option for well balanced teams.

If you have actual examples could you go to the focussed feedback page for the changes? That's what they are there for. "MM's suck now" isn't helpful, but "MM's suck now because..." are 🙂

It's a long open beta window!!

@DeathMcKillenstein has made it his mission in life to break the servers. He did it once, and if we don't pay him his body weight in Cadbury Cream Eggs he says he'll do it again 😛

I wish we had that power

Just a little patience please, the patch notes are published but we need to do some last minute checks and tweaks before we open it up to the public

Patience please, we published the patch notes, but are still doing some last minute tweaks before we open it up to the public

All the staff are players, and we will play and team up on our player accounts. Some people like me are known on certain characters I play regularly, some are pretty incognito. And some are immediately obvious as they have titles like "City Council" under their name. Unlike commercial games we as GM's are given pretty much free reign. We don't have to run everything by a committee before we respond to a ticket or reply to a player. It doesn't mean we aren't monitored, there is oversight, but we are treated like adults and it means we can jump in if we are available. And welcome. The game is pretty forgiving and solo play is common. I often play solo and mostly team for TF's or events like trick or treat. You'll find players are really helpful if you ask something in the help channel, and there are often GM's available on Discord. A GM or Lead GM will always respond if we are available, City Council and devs generally can't. And don't worry if you see a GM about ingame. We often wander in to chill and be silly with players 🙂

Thanks all. Poor Cipher is getting no rest.

The game should be back up for people. There are some back end things being held together with duct tape and spit, but nothing that impacts players.

Depends if the arc is split. Then the second part is unavailable if you outlevel the contact

Enjoy the journey, it's not about the end game here. Learn to use the auction house and merits or you'll be permanently broke. Enjoy making different alts and concepts, but be prepared to do the same training contacts over and over. (My friend made dozens of characters and never got past level 20 then gave up the game because he was bored. He'd never seen 90% of the content).

We've done some investigating, and Cipher has run his OVH tools, and it's something on the way to the OVH servers and is outside any of our control. Some bad nodes or outages elsewhere meaning the signal is bouncing round the world trying to find a route between players and the servers. Which is why some people are lagging and some aren't. It literally depends on where you live. I'm in Europe and have no issues as we use a different trunk.

Maybe your firewall?