Mystikal

My guess is that they don't want to release the January gift codes until after the maintenance is over, since players adding codes to their account during maintenance can cause issues. No big deal. The gifts will probably be the usual bundle of pots and nothing special as well. If only they'd toss in something really cool .

It didn't cost me trillions when I made my +30, and the "stress" was more like a rush. Heart in your throat and whatnot. But after you make your first 3-4 weapons to +26, it feels mostly like something that is inevitable. You know you're going to get +30, it's just a question of when. I sometimes pop back in the game to see if it's really harder or not to enchant. Seems like it is for some things, but I do notice that one of my lucky toons still has the uncanny habit to get a successful enchant where the other toons that I use fail. Can't call that random. Something else behind the scenes is at play. But I don't really care all that much about this game to delve deeper. Not worth the investment of time or money. Glad to see everyone is still playing, though. Happy Holidays!

It has become a runaway train. People cry for more adena slots, but what needs to happen is the reverse. First, they need to cap total adena that any account can have. If that means wiping out excess adena on accounts, so be it. Secondly, they need to roll back the NC base price for all items and make it impossible for players to charge more than 5% premium of actual base cost. Third, totally revamp the NPC stores to sell every item in game and upgrade the Luxury Shop to include a normal Night Market exchange, albeit at reduced prices. Let's face it: the market is the most toxic aspect of this game. Fixing that will make the game competitive, because everyone will be able to get what they need from an NPC, as opposed to just a handful of players who control and ruin everything.

Logical pretzel much? The "of Mammon" tells us all we need to know. Not like they are Blacksmith or Merchant of "Give Shit Away for Free." His original statement was spot on and funny imho.

By "hyperinflation", do you mean the price fixing by the wealthy and the lemmings who follow them? I mean that's the only real reason why prices are what they are on the servers. L2 isn't a normal economy, unless you consider cartels, monopolies, price gouging and other activities that would be criminal and punishable by law in the real world "normal."

They don't care. Support may not need those greater gem boxes, but missing out on the opportunity to increase your wealth by winning one is what really hurts. Some players will get 4-5 of those boxes and earn a zillion bucks from selling them, but not support classes, who also need money, too. Ridiculous.

As pointed out, another case of an OP class that got nerfed straight to hell. Now it's just archers and tyr. And they have been slowly but surely nerfing archers with each update.

This is the biggest problem with the long queue and DC. The XP event was extended for only one week. Most people are not going to be able to recover the lost time from the earlier server problem in a week when it takes them an hour to log in. I also found a peculiar decision to give 5-hour XP Rune III 30% as part of the L2 Store free Compensation package. A better choice would have been to make it an XP Rune I or II, since those runes stack with XP Rune III.

We asked the devs for a cross server auction house-type function several years ago. They ignored us on that, probably because it made RMT easier and also ran the risk of ruining markets on all servers. But despite those drawbacks I still think it's a good idea...if properly designed with safeguards.

Strictly as a social experiment, I think this game just proves that if you put a shiny thing in front of people, most will engineer methods to not only increase the likelihood of getting it, but at the cost of others, even if it means breaking the very system designed to award said object. Fair play, gray area, outside of the rules -- whatever it takes. Technology evolves and advances. Mankind does not.

I must have logged in right behind you. 456 in queue. When I logged in around midnight last night Pacific Standard time there was over 100 people in queue. That's never happened before. Usually on the West Coast that late you never get a queue at all. Not anymore.

Juji is buffing on Chronos now.

Don't feel bad, I haven't seen a greedy chest, either. Anyone who has killed multiples of the chests is cheating.

Which is lame. It's the season of giving, not giving and taking.

Oh, great. Get ready for the server to be flooded with Angel jewelry again.

Why do these posts keep happening? It's clear, if you buy an OE item from anyone, automatically assume it was previously restored. No ifs ands or buts. Then before you go to exploit the system yourself, first check with the GMs to see if it is eligible for restoration. It's really that simple.

And yet I've spent less money on this game over the past 18 months than I've spent back when we had to pay a monthly fee. Far, far less. Not every shiny object that NCSoft throws our way is a must purchase. Not every event worth it. And for damn sure buying XP boosts in L2store for only a .00000000000000000000000000000000000002 more increase in XP isn't worthy it. Talk about throwing good money after bad.

Not significantly more relevant to the amount of money they'll spend. Server boosted settings would help that tremendously.

Or better yet, don't buy anything at all.

Were you logged in and hunting all night during the daily soft reset (not the weekly downtime)? I logged into the game early before the weekly downtime, but after the soft reset. My Vitality was there full bar, but I went hunting and it evaporated like usual in under 10 minutes. They really should have sold 30 day Vitality suspension cheaply and in bulk until everyone on the server is at least 115.

Well said. Whoever thinks up this stuff at NCSoft must like walking around with a stick of dynamite glued to his gonads. This is far beyond merely shooting himself in the foot. It's proven time and again, people spend more when prices are low and/or when the chance of winning something, or getting a good return on investment is high. Much, much more.

I have a life. You clearly don't if you feel in anyway disappointed about anyone missing out on a pack that isn't very good to begin with. A shinier lump of crap that they're paying less for is still crap that their paying for.

I always found it funny that a digital item is limited the same way an actual physical product is limited at a sales doorbuster at a store. It's hilarious to see people complain, when Santa NCSoft has always been the pre-reform Grinch and it's never going to change. "You missed out? Too bad, so sad. My heart weeps for your dead hopes. You'll keep playing anyway? Ok, great, nice talk, GF. Sucker." No point in complaining to your abuser. You allow it. You enable your own misery.

Anyone know the probability rates for the Shiny Gem Energy when combining a Stage 5 jewel? We keep asking for those figures on various games of chance, but for some reason they keep ignoring us. It would be nice if this information was displayed in the enchant/combine box window -- more or less exact % numbers, not ambiguous terms like "low, medium, high."

Why not have these coins drop from normal mobs, instead of asking people to only get them by whipping out their credit cards and swiping? At least give us options. Maybe sell bulk in L2Store for players who don't have time or patience to hunt, but allow everyone else to hunt for the coins as a normal item drop. Please consider it the next time you host this promotion/event.