ANNOUNCEMENT Server downtime - bonus credit weekend
- Thread starter Zac Antonaci
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Sorry to hear that mate. Maybe a case of An nì a thig leis a’ghaoith, falbhaidh e leis an uisge.?
Thanks Frontier, the gesture is much appreciated. It must be as frustrating for you as it is for us when our game doesn't work. Once again you're showing more established game companies what customer service actually looks like in practice.
For those unable to accept or use Frontier's generous compensation, I fully sympathise with you. I won't be able to make up for my lost evening either, but this simple gesture from FD has really taken the sting out of the experience for me. Taking the announcement in the spirit in which it was offered might help? There's also the possibility of a more measured approach for different playstyles emerging next week- FD haven't been particularly quick to address concerns in the past, but they generally come up with a reasonable compromise or solution when they've had time to look into the issue. I was very happy with their sorting out the bonus Viper issue last month, for instance. (So happy I'm still flying mine, four weeks after taking it out for a quick spin to see if it was any good!
)You know waht would be nice?
Instead of making this a "weekend" bonus, make it a player-activated buff. Put it into the Transactions tab, and let players use it whenever they want. One-time activation, 20% payouts buff for 24 hrs, no refunds.
You may even give such bonuses as a reward for CGs (for top-5% CMDRs) or for participating in PP. Come on, almost every MMO has these in some form (crystals, scrolls, microchips etc).
Instead of making this a "weekend" bonus, make it a player-activated buff. Put it into the Transactions tab, and let players use it whenever they want. One-time activation, 20% payouts buff for 24 hrs, no refunds.
You may even give such bonuses as a reward for CGs (for top-5% CMDRs) or for participating in PP. Come on, almost every MMO has these in some form (crystals, scrolls, microchips etc).
Hopefully the bonus applies to stolen goods sold to black market....
I actually played eve online for the first time last night while the servers were down. Kinda liked it
I actually played eve online for the first time last night while the servers were down. Kinda liked it
So...One has to be doing specific missions to get the 20% reward? Doing standard commodities buy/sell trade runs between two systems I'm not getting the bonus. It would be nice if my 1.3 mil run went up to 1.56. Appears that it leaves the Traders out unless they go for assigned missions.
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The bonus is applying with me now for new BH kills. As support clarified, you have to watch the value in the top-right on kill (or whatever you noted when you KWS'd them). When that is added to the Transaction tab, it is indeed more.
Thank you for the clarification Support and keep up the great work.
Thank you for the clarification Support and keep up the great work.
You're forgetting the Pirates...Well, that was always true. Bounty hunting is the most rewarding in monetary terms. It's the "most equal." Everything else is secondary. But the bounty hunters also bear the most risk, so I don't complain.
In real life I also don't make as much as a cop, but I don't have people shooting at me in my job.
"make it a player-activated buff. Put it into the Transactions tab"
This would require a UI change and everyone download a new game client and version. These kinds of changes require weeks of careful design and testing. New distributions are reserved for major
game revisions, fixes and content, not three-day one time manipulations.
Obviously not suitable for a weekend thank you gesture where they attempted to add or modify a back end calculation which would have minimal impact on the game operation. Unfortunately, looks like the bonus got inserted at a location where it doesn't always (or ever) get applied for many of us.
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This would require a UI change and everyone download a new game client and version. These kinds of changes require weeks of careful design and testing. New distributions are reserved for major
game revisions, fixes and content, not three-day one time manipulations.
Obviously not suitable for a weekend thank you gesture where they attempted to add or modify a back end calculation which would have minimal impact on the game operation. Unfortunately, looks like the bonus got inserted at a location where it doesn't always (or ever) get applied for many of us.
-Pv-
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Grinding with Python (with community buff) it's crazy!
I'm not talking about that particular weekend, but about the (possible) future reward system.
Such "sudden" timed events are universally bad, because they do not apply for everyone. That particular weekend is basically "Robigo Weekend", since smugglers would get the most of it. Bounty hunters - not so much. Everyone else (traders and explorers, also the players who cannot play during that weekend) get nothing.
With player-activated bonuses, you do not lose it if you cannot play. Just activate it whenever you see fit. This won't break the balance (we have these huge BH bonuses for ALD, after all), but it will surely make the game less grindy.
Fantastic! FD continues to impress me.
Does the bonus 20% apply immediately? Because it's not happening when I hand them in.
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Yes it does.
28,000 for killing an Asp
33,600 in my Transactions tab
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Yes it does.
28,000 for killing an Asp
33,600 in my Transactions tab
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I'm surprised this doesn't apply as a 20% bounty bonus for griefing - or does it?
I can see extending mission & CG timers, but a pick and choose bonus seems kind of stupid. Why not then give all DW members an arbitrary bonus, or a bonus for reaching BP, or a bonus for making it back? And etc, etc.
I can see extending mission & CG timers, but a pick and choose bonus seems kind of stupid. Why not then give all DW members an arbitrary bonus, or a bonus for reaching BP, or a bonus for making it back? And etc, etc.
Actually, in defense of Ziljan, the entire US DWE missed the event that was scheduled at the exact time the servers went down. It wasn't a credit earning "mission" but we missed something that really can't be replaced by a monetary reward. On top of that, for most of us, 7hours equals 7kly of travel that we are behind, which can be made up but just like those saying they only have a certain time each week to play, that puts quite a few of the travellers well behind the group. Some of the DWE fellas can only travel once or twice a week and just like for those in the bubble, some of them do miss their weekly travel time if they miss Friday night. Now they have to "possibly" spend the next few weeks trying to catch back up to the group and now cannot scan systems for the next 7k ly, which is a very large amount of cred loss and job experience towards Elite Exploration when they get back home. So no, we don't lose the same things those in the bubble lose, but so so much more.
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Seems like the 20% bonus does not apply if you are already getting a bonus to your bounties from ALD or HUDSON. I am Hudson and my bonuses are still only 50%