Blackwall

Don't be such a negative nancy, mate. Players peaked at 1.700-ish today and it's a Sunday so they are obviously lower than, say, a Friday or Saturday. Plus everyone knows online player counts always tank during summer (for obvious reasons). But that's all a tad off topic. Regarding the topic: Yes, we do need more stigma shards. Even if you do all 30 daily 1000-shards-quests (and the unlimited weekly ones for 500, obviously) from Tiamaranta hearts you run out sooner or later. And that's not just a cleric problem. I mostly skip serious PvP instances (like IWW, EOB or Kamar) as a Sorc because I know I'm gonna do PvE with my mates later in the evening and don't want to buy shards every 2 days. That's a bummer since I like PvP.

Thank you for the quick reply. This topic can be closed.

Hello, quick question regarding the good old Kinah trade (players exchanging Kinah between factions). This procedure was always legal on retail versions if someone wanted to change factions or whatnot, so I was under the impression it should most likely be at least tolerated here, too. Yesterday someone told me it is not (just like selling accounts for real money or ingame money). I've read the server rules here on the forum but could not find anything specifically stating that trading Kinah between factions was not allowed. An official statement clarifying the situation would be appreciated. Blackwall

That is intended.

No, that one must be crafted by each player.

Spot on quality analysis of the way PvP works in ths game. Yesterday we lost a 3v5 with our group (mostly but not all BM yet) against 2 almost maxed out Sorcs and their Cleric because they just 1-shot both our healers (and, uh, literally everyone else from our group), Suppose we are just bad at the game, then?

Oh I can't help but notice how rich that is, coming from the guy that wanted to take the PvP out of the SWB garrison. All we are saying is, that this event flawd in a sense because entry to the Eye is restricted by winning sieges (which are subject to the ever growing faction imbalance) and favors older players (who, coincidentally, usually already have more gear and more Kinah).

No one asked for free ones, but as Rizella stated - this will most likely end up with geared people fighting each other over keys while newer players have zero chancec to survive against them. A way to get them through PvE (except for Sillus Danuar Mysticarium [which is 99% Elyos owned anyways] and Sauro) would benefit all players, not just the ones that have been playing here for god-knows-how-long.

My dude, just read this announcement.

How do you propose people that just want to do their weekly garrisons for Blood Marks are going to kill an Ultimate level warcaptain? An Elite version would do nothing against the "problem" you are referring to so it would have to be ultimate. People would need alliances for their undergeared twinks in order to get those 20 Blood Marks every week. Sounds pretty shitty? Yeah, cause it is.

just no.

We'll see how this works out in the end, but hats off to you for actually taking action against the shifting balance. And a rather drastic one at that. I really was not expecting anything so soon.

Y'all might be a bit alarmist, but what do I know. Gotta agree with the general sentiment of the thread here, though. Since me and my friends started playing here (as Asmodians, if this wasn't obvious) our faction only conquered a couple lower Abyss forts and the occasional Roah or Asteria Fortress. This means we have no KKM, no UAS, no DM (Sillus) and about 1/3 less Ceranium medals overall from sieges. The net AP loss can be around 500k or more per week, depending on how your RNG goes. This is a huge difference and as a consequence I don't think I've seen a single day without anyone wanting to trade all their Kinah and/or items for Elyos ones ever since I started. It's actually kinda depressing. Of course this has to do with no one taking up the flag for Asmodians and leading siege but on the other hand I also don't think it's entirely the player at fault. Elyos were always the more 'desireable' race, thats why Asmodians required some incentives all throughout AIONS history. Any admin making it this far into my paragraph, please consider giving people some kind of.. enticement to play Asmodians again. Not just a 7-day mount at level 10.

The reason behind this being?

As title says. Monsters and NPCs do not register player presence, loot is currently not possible and overall everything besides the chat seems pretty frozen. People are really angry about Steel Rake right now from what I've gathered.

Hey, I was wondering if any DPS meter is working on this server and was redirected to a french one. This DPS meter however is unable to locate the chat.log file needed for any of those applications to work. Does anyone know where to find this elusive file on the client used here? Regards

I was contemplating using UKMeter until I saw that ARM is also supported for this server. Manually creating a chat.log file did not do anything for me so i had to edit the system.cfg file by adding the line you mentioned. I'll see what a recreation of the file does.

Got it working, thanks. But now another, uh, "problem" arose. My chat started displaying messages about receiving or spending anything (e.g. Kinah from quests, broker transactions and picked up items) in a weird way. For instance, I just picked up a stigma from my mailbox and instead of the usual message i got "::ItemLoot::character name::<Stigma Name>". This happens with each and every single item or amount of Kinah i receive or trade/spend away. Any clue on how to revert this?

Hello, I was just wondering if there is any way to enable time stamps in the chat window? I'm pretty used to having those and it helps me seeing chat messages in context. If I'm not mistaken, the client should have that option, no? Regards, Blackwall

I believe it was the first character bonus as my friends and I just started playing a couple days ago. I immediately opened it upon receiving the survey (like, a few seconds later). Kinda bummeed out I don't have a mount right now as opposed to all my friends that started with me.

EDIT: I posted in the wrong sub forum. Apologies. Any mod please feel free to move thos topic to the correct sub forum. As title says. I opened the surveys which you get upon creating a character and normally received all the lucky vinna but the booster packs and the 7-day mount vanished into thin air. Any way I can get those retroactively? Kind regards, Blackwall