I'm like 14% of my server

 

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I have it on good authority that the LT authors are responsible for the current server downtime, to force those using older versions of LT out of game, so that they have to update to the latest version.

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Sorry, but.. wtf? Did you just blame us for the game servers being offline?




I shouldn't have to mention the updates were done LAST night, and it doesn't log you off when we do it. It tells you the next time you log in.


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I'm guessing it's late where you're at?


Next time I'll use <sarcasm> </sarcasm> tags

Oh.


Yeah, it's midnight.


My bad.

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Rant on.


A few posters have a valid point. At this stage of the game, why do something that's sure to make even more people quit? It's not like the server counts are all that robust anymore, just the opposite - and we're getting to the point that people quitting is seriously effecting the bottom line. I like AC, I enjoy playing, many of my circle of in-game friends and I WILL lose contact when AC goes bye bye. Something like this could make the number crunchers decide it's simply not financially viable anymore and pull the plug. I usually hunt with Alinco (without the buffing add on) and Buff Me anyway - but I know plenty of people in my allegiance that RELY on Lifetank - many of who relied on El Tank previously, and before all the haters go spouting off about "if they can't play the game without macroing, let em quit" - guys, in all seriousness - WE NEED THOSE ACCOUNTS. We let em quit, we lose AC. It's a business after all. Look at AC2 - they built it, people came and quit and didn't come back. Turbine lost money and pulled the plug. Damn certain they'll do the same with AC1 when it starts losing too much money.


All this said - I played my first 4 years without Decal at all. For me, this change isn't going to hurt anything. But for many others, they'll up and quit. Elgar stopped his plug-in in hopes of intentionally hurting this community, and wanting people to quit to hurt Turbine financially. In many ways he succeeded. One of the few things that stopped many people from leaving, is they could still get there preferred play style using Lifetank. But now, and over the course of the last few months, you've been tweaking Lifetank over and over - making it less friendly to the mass of people who actually use it. Pro, or Anti Macro, that's what Lifetank is. A Combat Macroing Program. That's why we collectively use it. I know this change is not shutting down Lifetank. I get what you are doing - and ya know, I even applaud it. But it's way too late in the game guys.


Leave well enough alone is all I suggest. Let the people's who jobs it is to enforce the ToS/CoC be the ones to enforce the ToS/CoC. It's always been the choice of the individual player if he or she is going to abide by the rules, or cut corners. There's QUITE a few in-game vigilantes more than happy to spend ALL of their in game time running from one dungeon to the next and cry to the +Envoys that someone is UCMing anyway.


/e shrugs.


Rant off.

 

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<< At this stage of the game, why do something that's sure to make even more people quit? >>


Integrity comes to mind.

 

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Churi said what i ment to say. good post

exactly churi


and yes, i guess that guy does hold 5% of the pop on his server. pick a slow time, log each one on consecutively and see what happens. pop goes up 1 for each acct you log in. sorry, but its getting too close to the end :o(

Integrity. Right. Honor. All good things. And as with ANY game, from Chess to Baseball to Croquette to Asherons Call - most will wholeheartedly play within the structured guidelines of the game. Conversely, people always look for an edge. Perhaps not ALL people. But human nature likes to cut corners. Why walk to the corner store when you can drive? Why drive to the corner store when you can get someone to drive you? Why go at all when you can get someone else to do it for you? Many players of AC see that 275th level and it becomes a number etched in their minds. They see other people with that level and want it for themselves. Or, and simpler, and possibly more understandable, they have skills they feel they NEED maxxed right now, be it for high-end content or for the PK scene. Most of our players do not honestly HAVE 12, 15 19 hours a day to sit and play. But to compete with those who DO have that kind of time, or who are lucky enough to have very active vassals - they need to find a way to be on and hunting, even though they don't actually HAVE the time to BE there. To max that melle D, magic D life and war magic. Or, to stockpile the xp for the various NEEDED Augmentations to help complete the Colliseum.


To compete.


To achieve goals that are frankly unachieveable in any realistic amount of time - while being able to balance a home life with family and friends as well as a career - or school.


People UCM plain and simply as the 191 BILLION needed to max a character out aren't going to come with hunting for golds or sitting in a fellow for a couple hours a day. They could, I suppose, if they HAD a couple more years. They UCM because to achieve their goals - Turbine - has given them little choice.


UCM is against the Rules. Good. Frankly, it should be. A person playing at the keyboard should have priority in a hunting spot or fellow over someone not there. I get it. That said, I understand why people feel they need to do it. Again, I will state - it's going to boil down to that individual. Either whoever it is will comply with the ToS/CoC, or they'll roll the dice and take their punishment if caught or reported.

 

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