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Also my own take on this change to limit it back to 3 clients max: @Hime @Juji At least consider the option of making it 4 so 2 pc's can run a party so anyone who can run a party can at least do their thing without having to work around it with yet another computer to maintain. To get things going i often find myself bringing a entire party to get things going solely because few people are still interested and i like to keep things going for the rest who still are interested. Instead of the alternative option of leaving them hanging with no interesting activities and just 24x7 macro which will not retain many people at all. I have already seen former big clans and alliances collapse into nothing but a hand full of people due to being bored and not just wanting a afk macro grind game with no interesting activities whatsoever.

For sure bots will not go away, NCWest knows it's a lost fight because the owners of those bots can cover up the money trail in so many ways that they can't track who is behind it. About virtual machines, i have asked the GM's about this long time ago after seeing a few youtube video from top players and wondering if i would be allowed to do so myself. It is actually allowed as long you do not perform any modifications to the client to make it work, they just will not give any support if the client wont run in that environment for any reason or if unexpected problems occur. 3 client limitation does not really get rid of the problem at all, people can still put a single well geared toon in a spot with pots and another 2 in another spot (or 2 other spots with pots as well). Most of those spenders only spend to sell store promotion items on the market, without anyone to buy those who do they turn to? About the money, skills and knowledge i guess everyone had to start somewhere and get better at the game, now they just spam toons till the problem is "solved" which is another way to solve the problem but not a very good one. Actually very few full afk macro'ers even attempted after a good solid PK spree, they just care for the xp but they also care to not be dead 100% of the time when they aren't at the screen at least the most sensible ones. The actual problem are the insane players who just start on your spot for no good reason when there are 3 or more spots nearby completely free. They look for confrontation and get butt hurt and call their friends, clan, ally etc when their action brought consequences in the form of a PK. I've actually convinced a few of those to not support them and their actions due to this simple fact, even got a apology out of a few in fear of having their entire clan's afk macro'ing disrupted for a long time. There are people who do macro but don't do it at the cost of others and who actually sit at the pc even while playing other, more entertaining games. Small simple things that kinda keep the game going for some after the feeling it's been heading downhill fast since NCStore P2W era. It's all about morals down the line.

You probably mean the assassin appearance exploit people actually used in pvp/siege/combat, if this can be forced then you can be sure it will once again be used and NCWest will do nothing to punish the exploiters. Even worse this issue might again remain for months like the other one has so people can abuse it in towns and open field to once again make 2+ months not worth to login or bother with the game at all due to build up frustration from crash after crash.

2 things need to be possible to be turned off. Disable toggle for the social action when near a "ranked" character. Disable hero chat. I do not want to read their crap and be turned away from this game even more then i already have been and i certainly do not want to pay them any kind of "forced respect" trough social actions when the same people are the ones who can't be bothered to have any "manner" within the game. Both these things are very detrimental to the entire game and makes me want to vomit!

How about this: - Nova abusing Assassin appearance when it had a bug that it crashed the L2 client, on 2 different sieges winning a castle fight they could otherwise not have won *no action was taken vs the offender(s) and from my knowledge no other clan even abused this but this very same character was left in Aden town for the rest of that time solely with the intention to crash people. - Nova internally knowing about a glitch with the skill learning process and even though not all used it quite a few did to learn "subtle" passive skills from other classes to get a unfair advantage *granted other clans abused it also but not nearly as much as nova members did. - at least 2 different nova members who kept 999 bil adena (when that was the cap) from the lottery exploit *this money remained in economy one nova member even bragged about it in worldshout at that time after NCSoft supposedly fixed/removed all ill gotten gains. - Nova running a 98 character train to port in pre-fafurion update lilith/anakim before KSK/africa time to farm gear for 3 "main" people *granted again not all did it and FS did this too but again the gains were not taken away as the offenders kept pushing the evidence in everyone else their face. - How do you explain a GM appearing, making a lol comment about certain player in gainak using a botting tool and then the player was just left to continue with just a verbal warning due to GM presence while any other player would have been instantly banned on the spot. There are many more things Nova / Renovatio did but this is the stuff that stands out the most, granted it never was the entirety of Nova but due to inaction of "Management" here it left many people wondering about this particular fact. This is why these things are said, not some unfounded "just because they were top clan at that time". Also GM's doing "extra's" for certain players or group of players isn't a new thing in the MMO world either, many other games suffered the exact same thing and Lineage II certainly isn't invulnerable to GM's doing things they are not supposed to.

Does that mean all the rewards or just the level 1 brooch jewel items? I am pretty sure those are the target since you can't exchange the other rewards. Will there be high level content (like level 105+) somewhere down the line that will allow us to at least make a basic level 1 of these brooch jewels and possibly other "start" items otherwise not available?