Infami

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJRfPMSq2c8&feature=youtu.be Attempt #1 at video editing. More to come! Shout out to the #2/3/4 pvp clans on chronos, Crows, OGs, and Piratas.

I think the phrase "silence speaks volumes" applies.

Too add to my point, I posted this 7 days ago, theres two pages of responses, more or less everyone responding and agreeing, and we cant even get a text back. =/ You guys have posted multiple times elsewhere =( @Hime @Juji

I realized that I referenced some outstanding balance issues without providing any examples. So just a quick list off the tops of my head. 1) This recent shirt event. Minimum buy-in is like 230$ for a 1% chance to end up with anything worthwhile. Relative to how many participated in the last cloak event this was a complete failure as the shirt event was entirely too "hard" and its been stated in countless threads over time how imbalanced it is to not have this item and compete against people who do. 2) Structure of the brooch gem events. In other regions you can pick which gem you are buying instead of the random pack you have to buy here. Due to the horrible rates this ends up pricing 90% of the population out of even having a full set of level 4 gems. 3) The brooch skills themselves need to be looked at. Other regions have the Topaz/Tanzanite timer at 3 minutes I believe? This isnt a perfect solution but its WAY better than we have here. 4) Lack of viability of most of the classes in pvp. You basically see Archers, and Nukers as 85% of DDs in PVP. I know you have less control over this than alot of the other things but its worth stating. 5) Free-to-win events. This bracelet event was SOOOO close to being a perfect event if it didnt exclude 75% of players lol. Im sure others could add tons more to this.

I realize that all the attention is still on classic, but we are now two for two on the worst events ive seen in the two ish years of being back to the game. We had a shirt event that was the single most horribly over-priced, underwhelming and too long of a wait for it. Honestly this was pretty much a slap in the face. Then we have this bracelet event (which for me, as a very well geared DD is fine) that is so unrealistic for support classes I dont actually know a support toon that has a +ed bracelet. Im not saying these things to flame the devs, just making observations. The worst part of this in my opinion, is that im also playing classic at the same time. The responsiveness of the GM/Dev team over there versus over here is night and day. The community engages (not always in a constructive way) the Dev team, and actual changes are made. In the two years ive been back its been consistent with everyone complaining about the same things and no changes/resolutions that are significant. So my main curiosity is this; Undeniably the population of Live T A N K E D at the release of classic, you need only log in. Using just the two top clans as a measurement for the overall server, Nova pre-classic was regularly fielding 6-7 parties during a siege, MS 15-18. Nova can barely put 3 parties together, and MS struggles to put 8 together, so roughly 50-60% drop in active population. Im inclined to believe the general population is basically in the same state. Then that is followed as stated above by two extremely poorly executed/thought out events. Is the dev team considering making any actual changes to the events/live servers/effort put into it or are we basically just hanging on until the eventual merge of Chronos and Naia, and then the shutdown of "live" all together, making classic the "new live". Because thats what it looks like the strategy is right now. Im not trying to be a conspiracy theorist bleep, but im going off whats in front of me. I WANT to be wrong here because I actually enjoy both versions but the disparity in service on the servers is striking. So you plan on making some improvements on live to bring players back, maybe actually finally looking at some of the horrible balance issues, actually releasing events that are fun, fair, and beneficial to the game, the economy, and content? Do you guys (the Devs) see these things (even in part if you disagree with some of what ive said) as stated or do you feel that im crazy and youre going to lock the thread and tell me to proverbially play in traffic? @Hime @Juji any thoughts?

@Hallibel read the second post I made, it wont let me edit my original post for some reason.

Also Zu was the only person I can come up with that im 99.99% sure isnt scamming my adena. and the entry fee is only 1b per person, which all things considered for non-MS members is very low risk. But it would actually be really nice if one of the GM's would agree to hold the fees to encourage non-ms members to participate, but even if no one outside of clan wants to join, we were doing it anyway so no real loss, ill still get to kill zureil and diego and thats all that matters tbh.

Yeah we reversed course on the brooch brs after speaking about it more to encourage participation and fairness. but we arent going to put too many rules in place because theres no way to verify alot of it since its not like a GM/NCsoft event. This was as fair as we could come up with without being overly restricting.Its why we decided no dragon weapons (mostly a middle finger to Zureil, Rown, and insanebunny as theyre the only 3 active weapon users) because its too game breaking.

One edit; Im told im a "Stupid DD who doesnt know what its like playing support" Paagrios Might and Freyas Barriers will be permitted, and all brooch BR will be banned, however level 6 gems and their respective skills will be allowed.

MS Holidays Battle Tournament: In an effort to come together with holiday spirit MS has decided to hold a tournament and kill each other. We kicked the idea around and decided to open it up to any 7 man team that wants to participate so long as they agree to the rules beforehand. So far, to create as fair a playing field as possible, the following are the restrictions in place. 1) All teams must have 7 members, and all 7 members must be entered in prior to the start of the tournament and cannot be subbed out at any point. If for some reason a participant cannot complete after starting, the party may continue on, down that individual, or forfeit and lose.If an individual DC's during the match, the fight continues. If he/she logs in prior to the match ending they may rejoin the fight immediately, or not at all. 2) Entry fee will be 7b per party. This is due the day before the tournament. Zureil will hold all entry fees (The only alternate to this is if @Juji or @Hime agree to be our escrow bankers for this). Payout will be as Follows: 50% of total entries for 1st place, 30% for 2nd place, and 20% for 3rd place. 3rd place will be determined by the losers from the final 4 teams playing each other. 3) There will be no consumables allowed at all. This includes Dandys, Valiants, Roses, Paagrios, Stews, etc. CP/MP/HP pots WILL be allowed. If any member of any party uses consumables AT ANY POINT DURING THE MATCH, their entire party automatically forfeits the match 4) Victory is when the entire enemy team is dead, or leaves the area of combat. Matches will continue until one of these two conditions is met. 5) There are -NO- dragon weapons permitted on any team at any time. 6) There are no level/class/party make up restrictions. This includes clan. As long as all 7 members are entered before hand it is a valid team. 7) Each party may use a maximum of two brooch BR's (any level) per match, to reduce the effectiveness of stacking single CP's with Greater Gems. If a 3rd brooch BR is used the team who used it forfeits. 8) Each match will have two spotters, and will be recorded. Any rule infractions will be confirmed by both spotters and the recording. All teams are also encouraged to record their matches. 9) The team with the quickest overall loss shall be known as team Zefri for the rest of their days playing L2. 10) Have fun, its not that serious. Date of the tournament to be determined by the amount of interested CPs. Match-ups will be done at random. The tournament will be single-elimination except the runners up fighting for 3rd place. All interested parties can PM me here on the forums or mail me in-game, or post on this thread. If you arent interested, or dont like the rules (they're non-negotiable), jump off a bridge.

Ill do that trade, message me

Mail me ingame Infamous

Annnnnnd both servers down.

Logged in for about 5 minutes, clients frozen, dced. So I take it XIN3CODE bugs werent worked out then?

If you arent 75+ luc, dont enchant cloaks. lol