ANNOUNCEMENT Server downtime - bonus credit weekend
- Thread starter Zac Antonaci
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worth to mention since so many are unhappy when FD are showing some goodwill: i played another game which i shall not mention... *thinking about world of tanks quietly for myself for some reason*
think it was yesterday or day before that, many could not log in for several hours (so lot of lost game time lately for me!), also loosing premium time in the process (prem. = 50% bonus to earnings there, so its really hurting in a game that 1000 times more grindy than Elite ever been). now this tends to happen almost evry time i have premium time there, or its completely unplayable bec there servers are crap. but i never ever got any compensation whatsoever ofc... and those servers are down a lot more often than Elites are!
so gj FD
think it was yesterday or day before that, many could not log in for several hours (so lot of lost game time lately for me!), also loosing premium time in the process (prem. = 50% bonus to earnings there, so its really hurting in a game that 1000 times more grindy than Elite ever been). now this tends to happen almost evry time i have premium time there, or its completely unplayable bec there servers are crap. but i never ever got any compensation whatsoever ofc... and those servers are down a lot more often than Elites are!
so gj FD
Then you have a scaling problem - a fixed chunk of money can be anything from a gamechanger to something barely noticable, depending on how far your account is into the grind.
Those people loose potential sales for compensating their players - Frontier doesn't sell grind boosts.
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That's very cool of you guys. Thank you for the gesture of good will
It seems to be rather unfair to say sorry only to the people who can play this weekend. To me that is far worse than any fears you may have. My thinking was that FD would decide on a fair amount ( percentage or whatever ) and people would have to accept it, in much the same way that those who can't play this weekend will currently have to accept nothing.
However, it's certainly not worth arguing over and I don't require any compensation myself. I don't really care what happens if I'm honest. It just strikes me as a little unfair to anybody who can't play during the bonus period.
As above, wouldn't a percentage of each player's gross earnings solve this issue?
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X-Terminator
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Yes, how about our 20% extra for setting free Slaves to ship to a "better place"? ahmmm...
Does this stack with Powerplay bonuses? I did a quick test and it does not stack with Hudson's current Level 2 +50% bounty claims.
they also award players with premium time for completing certain missions, but to earn it requires hard work and comitment.. and then u loose it and get no compensation..... my point: FD dont do that
[edited: was never my intention to use what can be precieved as foul language or masked ditto, my bad! however now this post makes 0 sence]
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I had traveled from the far-side of the bubble to Robigo Mines, waited 40 minutes to get 5 smuggling missions and I was in the LAST frame-shift animation to the destination system when the game crashed yesterday. No guarantee I wouldn't have outrun a scan while trying to port but I've never failed boosting away on all previous Illicit cargo runs so I like to think it unlikely I would have failed. Woke up today, get in and see all missions have timed-out (as expected) but see a notice I can do missions and get a 20% bonus this weekend. Wow.. I can do that run 5 times, taking 5 missions each time, and be close to breaking even. Ugh, not how I want to spend my weekend playing.
Players exploring didn't loose exploration data, players trading didn't loose trade goods, players fighting didn't loose bounties, but players doing missions failed their missions. I know there's nothing FD can do that will satisfy everyone but I think extending mission timers would have been a start. Then all losses would've been the same, not being able to play for a few hours.
Players exploring didn't loose exploration data, players trading didn't loose trade goods, players fighting didn't loose bounties, but players doing missions failed their missions. I know there's nothing FD can do that will satisfy everyone but I think extending mission timers would have been a start. Then all losses would've been the same, not being able to play for a few hours.
Those precious seconds of my life...
seconds I would have spent,
scratching my gonads or shuffling through an airline's departure
lounge.
Or sitting in a marketing meeting, wondering how if I could kill myself
by swallowing my own tongue,
breathing the carbon exhaust of the car ahead of me in rush hour
traffic.
Curse you FD, I want those moments BACK!
seconds I would have spent,
scratching my gonads or shuffling through an airline's departure
lounge.
Or sitting in a marketing meeting, wondering how if I could kill myself
by swallowing my own tongue,
breathing the carbon exhaust of the car ahead of me in rush hour
traffic.
Curse you FD, I want those moments BACK!
I am not seeing any 20% increase for missions compared to the stated amount. Do we need to do something to make this work? I will say the missions seemed to be paying more than usual, but this might be a coincidence
No bonus for me either. Just cashed in 650k bounties, didn't get a single bonus credit.
Very good. Carry on.
Edit: Who cares if it works or not. Just play the game already.
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Not being able to complete missions is just the same as not being able to hunt for bounties or scan systems and planets. It's all the same, doing missions isn't more valuable or important then everything else other people do. Just because you do that doesn't mean downtime is more unfair to you.