Hozzászólások - Miklos

Pumpkin: no worries, you can continue to play all 3 characters as before. The restriction is that they can see each other, but can't attack each other, otherwise nothing really changed. They are still in world1, world2 and world3, just now these characters can interact in the same environment with others.

Stiska: originally, we did not want this, but due to requests we decided to allow players to have his characters in the same clan, since the merge might bring merging of clans too and we do not want to punish anyone by making them stay in an abandoned clan.

Sorry, it seems we still have some things which need to be fixed, the downtime is prolonged until 16pm CET (10am EST).

About the auction:
Yes, there was no easy solution, maybe ending all at 8 would have been a bit better than 10, but even then some auctions should have been extended. If you want to make sure you have the best chance to get a specific item, you have to bid as much for it as you think is reasonable - or try to bid in the last possible moment. You do it anyway when a bid ends when you are away from the computer. So the rules were a bit different now, but still the same for everyone, I hope no one will feel he got an unfair disadvantage.

After the merge, there will be one auction house only, but we will reduce auction time from 5 to 3 days to compensate.

Dodo: you can still give world1 and world2 under login.

I try to make a "changelog", it's the News forum. We even implemented that all posts there are displayed on the login screen as well in case players overlook it. But yes you are right, it seems sometimes some small things are missing. The stun thing was even surprise to me, the programmer did it that way but yes, and edit shouldn't have been enough.

I try to be here as much as possible, and answer questions, but I am not here every day. If you think there is something important what I don't answer quick enough or overlooked and is important for the community, just please write to CS and I come On Hungarian forums situation is different, we have a vast amount of players there, a huge number of posts on forums, there I can't even read all posts, so there ppl write to if I need to answer something.

About upcoming news and changes. You are right, I always post these on the Hun forum, and post it here only when it is already being implemented. The reason for this is that some ideas / changes are not even being implemented after hearing out the players opinion. And it would be very difficult for me to discuss the same development in different languages at once, constantly updating each language with comments and changes from other forums. I understand that you are frustrated that you feel that you have no influence over the development of the game. I try to involve you as well, we developed the epic adventures for you (although I know it took a lot of time, queue was long) and we implement suggestions from the intl players too.

Anyway, I will try to do my best, be here more often, and give you more advanced discussion of upcoming changes, got your point.

We will modify all auctions so they end before the maintenance for the merge to avoid problems.

Okay, good idea, we will do it.

World 1, world 2 and world 3 merge will go live on Wednesday, 13th of November. We will schedule a maintenance for this time, from 10am GMT (4am EST) you will be not able to log into the game for approx. 4 hours. After the merge is complete, you can log in as normal with your characters, being on any world. Players will be able attack players on other worlds and join clans from other worlds. Top lists, aucton house, Lady Alvariel and other activities will be the same for players for all 3 worlds.

Ardent: it is very hard to argue with someone who is hostile towards you. When I ask you to summarize your current problem for me in a civilized matter, replying that I should read all your previous posts and figure it out is not the way to do it. Believe me or not, our only goal was all the time to try to grant the wishes of players in the boundaries of the game and make them happy. This is the only way a game should be runned. Event, merges, everythng is done because players want something and we try to grant it. If our players are not happy, they won't pay, they quit.

We make games since 20 years. And sometimes it happens, a player gets bitter, angry because something is not happening the way he would like it. He begins insulting, goes personal etc. In these cases, I always try to understand what is the real problem of the player, and how could I help it, but often I fail. Because as long as you complain and insult, I don't know what to change. Be constructive, and say what should you do if you would be me.

And what you write in your last post, I really can't do much about it. We already had a huge"alpha" with Hungarian players. I think it is absurd that you blame us for having bugs in a beta? Program have bugs. betas have a lot, accept it. We try correct them. When we think we did, then it goes live. (And yes, some lesser bugs can be even in the live version, which we try to correct asap soon, and reimburse anyone who suffers disadvantage from it). This is how constanly evolving games are run, every game.

Senner and Ardent, I really don't understand why you are upset... If you can calm down and explain your problem in a civilized manner like everyone else here, I will try my best to help and answer. But be assured, harassment and insults will take you nowhere. Continued trashtalking can indeed ban you from the forum. If Senner's problem is that he got into the catacombs too early because he thought merge is coming on day (?), and is not frustrated because he can't play for days, just say so, we will help you, reset your catacomb time etc. Just please be as polite as respectful as I am to you, and as is everyone else on this forum. Thanks.

Thanks too, Bartessica! From this report it seems javascript was not working for some reason for Retardo

I'm sorry that we couldn't give an exact date on the merge, but the reason is, we don't know it yet. We do not announce it until we are sure everything is fine. So I'm waiting for the green light from the programmer. When he gives that, we will announce the time, several days in advance, so everyone has time to prepare. I don't understand your frustration, senner, you sent a ticket today, we try to answer all in 24 hours at most. The reason of the merge is only to help you, players, give you more challenge, more targets, more fun.

About W3 duels:
If ONE of the duelers is from W3, W3 rules will apply. So a W3 player can't steal more from a W1/W2 than they can steal from him. Also we will mark W3 players for you on the duel list so you know well in advance that this duel is going by the W3 rules.

Yes, there will be one more promotion, either end of November or early December, we don't know the exact date yet.

W can change things based on players feedback for the next event. Suggestions so far:

1.) Special forum for horde and/or
2.) Your clan's horde counts in war, not yours (so clans with horde-changed members can still work together)
3.) Reduce price of war pack and increase its value (lesser duel potion -> duel potion)
4.) Increase amount of treasure dropped from targets
5.) Diamond medal for all top10 not only for top1
6.) Increase effect of medals
7.) Targets clones of other players, not yours

If you have further suggestions based on this event's experience, please post them.

We did an update at midnight, and there was another when the event ended.

Seems we have been able to correct the "white page" errors (see above). Working on the rest too. Please keep up reports, we are very grateful for them. Thank you!

Thank you very much for all the feedback!
Yes, clan forums and dresses were not copied, but will be in the final version.Will correct everything else until Monday.
Merge will happen after the current event is over, will announce the exact time/date. Hour will be 10am CET so we can respond to any problems quickly.

Furlozza: do I understand your problem correctly? You can log into the original worlds, but not to the beta? You changed your password recently? This can be a reason, try the old password on beta if the forgotten password link on beta is not working. For beta, there should be a world selector as well under username and password. You have to select the same world as you had in the normal game.

Don't delete your original character
This is just a test world, with a duplicate of your character. Anything you do here will not affect your real character, and this test world will cease to exist after a week, when we will do a real merge for all existing worlds.
About tribe, you mean the clans, right? Yes, we are still thinking about allowing 2 chars of the same player on different world to join the same clan, what you say is valid.
W3 has different rules for looting SE in duel. For this reason, players have huge amount of SE on them. It would be unfair to let them looted with this change.
Don't really understand the last question

Dear Players,

We finished the programming of the worlds merge. You can test it out at
http://beta.doomlord.net
You can log in with the same username, password, and world number as in the normal game. Your original character was copied there, you can play it independently from the nromal game. The event is not running there, your battles were not copied, nor were Lady Alvariel results. Some things are still missing (but will be implemented soon) like forbidding you attacking your own characters. If you find any problems, or have any questions, please post it here or write us via the customer service system (Help button ingame).
We will be running this beta test for approx. 1 week, and if everything is fine, the merge will go live.
Please see more details in this topic:
http://forum.doomlord.net/index.php/topic,184.0

Okay, I understand now. So you would like to get some advantage for being more powerful than others.

So maybe the opponent should be not your clone, but some others. In 15 pp mode, clones of significant lower level characters, in 30 pp mode, clones of higher level characters. It needs a lot of testing, but we can do this for the next event. However, this will mean that weak characters might lose more than now. It is also possible to increase reward if you defeat a harder opponent. More SE, and maybe a few extra treasure.
About the Horde Pack, we can reduce the price a bit for the next event. Also might be a good idea to add a relic which you get for horde trophies and increases the chance for treasure. This way, number of victories will have a greater weight in amount of treasure hoarded.
About the medal, yes, its temporal, but this means only that you have to divide its value. So if +8 to all stats means 20 million SE for you, then you can say a temporal half-year effect of the same strength is only 5 million SE value for you. So if you had to do 500 battles for this, then its' like you get +10.000 SE per battle. Still a nice reward and huge boost in SE/XP.