Refreshing Glory Ranking

[TheAlmighty 1,114]

Good day dear players!

First of all, we would like to sincerely thank everyone who stayed with, no matter the difficulties!

Considering that our project has been on for almost 3 years, and that the upper positions in the abyss rating have almost reached 300 thousand points, we have decided to cut the Glory points to standard numbers.

All the extra points over the table numbers will be removed.

The changes will take effect in the nearest future.

Every player will keep their rank! If your current rank is "5 Star Officer" you will have 5210 Glory Points; Governor will have 12437GP; Commander - 11503 and so on. All the players below officer ranks will keep their ranks too and will have the maximum of 1000 GP (so the points will be cut only for those exceeding this number, the others will keep what they have on the moment of cut).

This is not baseless. We have received numerous offers regarding the reset pf the rating on a regular basis. The resons for it are the "dead souls" in the ranking table; a huge number of Glory Points, preventing new players from entering the rating; the unwillingness of new players to start their journey on such a server. 

Another change regarding the Glory Points: we are completely removing them from the rewards for the Arenas of Chaos, Discipline, Harmony and Glory. The decision was based after analysing the situation and continuous complaints from the players about unfair abuse of the game mechanics when entering the arenas.

We hope that this solution will change the situation on the sieges and more possibilities in game will make the character development more exciting!

Everyone has a chance to become the new legend of EuroAion!

[Kamai 72]

[Kamai 72]

I can't lie removing glory points from Arena of GLORY isn't best idea. The whole point of arena is Glory points which you get. 

Right now i can wait 10 minutes for dodge arena
now when you remove GP from arenas well
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[CowBell 32]

I don't see date when this will be done, how I can know and plan till when should use my Glory tickets? 

Arena 100% dead to me after this patch, guaranteed people not going to do it if there is no point doing it. 

[TheAlmighty 1,114]

3 minutes ago, Kamai said:

I can't lie removing glory points from Arena of GLORY isn't best idea. The whole point of arena is Glory points which you get. 

Right now i can wait 10 minutes for dodge arena
now when you remove GP from arenas well
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Hello,

I don't think that waiting for dodge is pleasing. However we have so many compaints about the dodgers on this arena. And these people have the ranks that they literally don't deserve. 

[TheAlmighty 1,114]

1 minute ago, CowBell said:

I don't see date when this will be done, how I can know and plan till when should use my Glory tickets? 

Arena 100% dead to me after this patch, guaranteed people not going to do it if there is no point doing it. 

Hello,

I can suggest you to just use them now normally, don't accumulate them. 

[CowBell 32]

2 minutes ago, TheAlmighty said:

Hello,

I can suggest you to just use them now normally, don't accumulate them. 

I understand, but I need to be aware how fast this will be done. In total right now I have almost 40 tickets, so thats not so fast thing to burn through 

[Emenems 14]

Tbh is good change if you can't fix arena dodges,just watch the situation and maybe put in the future some extra reward for arena.

[Ellowain 78]

Someone on discord suggested cera for arena. I think that's a great idea. 

What use is your new 2* if you can't afford any gear? 

[akolein3 10]

Deleting GP from arena also kills the ppl that work shifts like night shift and early/late shift, because they cant hold their rank, so pls overthink that change

[Phoenix 8]

Wow what a kick in the balls this decision is, quite fascinating actually, what a good way to reward those players who stayed on this server while many others went to GC like 3 times in the row! Equalizing them with the active ones on EA.

 

43 minutes ago, TheAlmighty said:

Considering that our project has been on for almost 3 years, and that the upper positions in the abyss rating have almost reached 300 thousand points

Which happened because you never culled/soft reseted GP like everyone does in every single competitive ladder nowadays, e.g. League of Legends. Soft reset at the end of the year, losing like 50% of your rank so there is no inflation in points like right now. Doing usual soft resets means that active players are rewarded more than inactives as they should while not having to force a hard reset

46 minutes ago, TheAlmighty said:

This is not baseless. We have received numerous offers regarding the reset pf the rating on a regular basis. The resons for it are the "dead souls" in the ranking table; a huge number of Glory Points, preventing new players from entering the rating; the unwillingness of new players to start their journey on such a server. 

Which could be easily fixable by just adjusting the GP loss per day for the lower ranks. The issues is that people want to get to 2 star officer so they can equip their end-game pvp gear but they can't because there are tons of 2 stars already who lose what, 23 GP per day? 23 GP! You can sustain this just by sitting AFK in EOB x2/Kamar x2 and actually climbing up making a profit. Not to mention Arenas, IWW, IS, 300 GP in Abyss siege just by killing 3 lv45 towers.

Isn't the GP decay doubled already hence why big ranks lose 250 GP per day? Just increase the decay for 2 star to like 100, In less than a month half of them who are alts will decay to 1 star naturally, they won't be able to sustain it.

54 minutes ago, TheAlmighty said:

Another change regarding the Glory Points: we are completely removing them from the rewards for the Arenas of Chaos, Discipline, Harmony and Glory. The decision was based after analysing the situation and continuous complaints from the players about unfair abuse of the game mechanics when entering the arenas.

And what exactly will be the reason for a player to actually go for Arenas now? Get a random L80 stone in 1 out of 5 winning chests? Literally removing the viability of the content in an already limited patch when it comes to content since the server is locked to 4.6

The problem is trading and everyone knows it, how does removing the GP reward from Arenas help exactly when people trade the exact same way in EOB/Kamar daily trying to matchfix with their alts? Are you gonna remove the GP reward from EOB/Kamar too? Isn't it literally the same?

So you know and admit that people trade constantly and you have an official ladder on your website for 1v1/3v3 etc, isn't it quite simple to just look at the top of the so called ladder and check manually those names/people who are top rank but they barely play? Isn't it obvious that they trade, can''t you check them manually in-game and ban them since trading is against the rules?

Its specific people anyway who abuse this to the extreme, 10,20,30 people at best. Easily detectable since they camp that Arena Door for hours until they matchfix.

But that would require a in-game GM to actually log and work.

1 hour ago, TheAlmighty said:

We hope that this solution will change the situation on the sieges and more possibilities in game will make the character development more exciting!

Sieges have been actually active the past few days before any of those changes. Those changes have nothing to do with Siege to begin with, people who traded on Arenas will trade on Siege too its not rocket science.

Actually its gonna make it worse, people to maximize their GP gains will trade as much as possible now since their sources/income of GP is going to be limited now.

The siege situation is the way it is based on the in-game politics and the fact that you reward the "losing" faction with a PvP buff which is equal if not more than all Accs +5.

There is a reason why Elyos get Artifacts in Abyss often and not use them, specific Legion gets them so other Elyos won't have the ability to use them and actually get a fort so Elyos eventually get the 10% PvP buff and Asmos won't.

1 hour ago, TheAlmighty said:

Everyone has a chance to become the new legend of EuroAion!

More Luluxds running around clueless 

Also whats the plan, you announced that you will reset now but there should be schedule, you will reset anytime you feel like (every 3 years) or actually following a schedule e.g. every 6 months. People should know so they will know if they should commit in this fiesta of a server who keeps getting DDOSed almost every siege which is gonna increase now i guess, that guy is gonna have the time of his life now that more people are gonna depend on Siege for GP.

[TheAlmighty 1,114]

3 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

Which happened because you never culled/soft reseted GP like everyone does in every single competitive ladder nowadays, e.g. League of Legends. Soft reset at the end of the year, losing like 50% of your rank so there is no inflation in points like right now. Doing usual soft resets means that active players are rewarded more than inactives as they should while not having to force a hard reset

That's what we are doing: soft reset. People keep the ranks.

3 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

Which could be easily fixable by just adjusting the GP loss per day for the lower ranks. The issues is that people want to get to 2 star officer so they can equip their end-game pvp gear but they can't because there are tons of 2 stars already who lose what, 23 GP per day? 23 GP! You can sustain this just by sitting AFK in EOB x2/Kamar x2 and actually climbing up making a profit. Not to mention Arenas, IWW, IS, 300 GP in Abyss siege just by killing 3 lv45 towers.

GP loss already IS doubled. ANd the arena GP are removed. It is mentioned in the topic, so yes, metioning them is not appropriate.

5 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

And what exactly will be the reason for a player to actually go for Arenas now? Get a random L80 stone in 1 out of 5 winning chests? Literally removing the viability of the content in an already limited patch when it comes to content since the server is locked to 4.6

The problem is trading and everyone knows it, how does removing the GP reward from Arenas help exactly when people trade the exact same way in EOB/Kamar daily trying to matchfix with their alts? Are you gonna remove the GP reward from EOB/Kamar too? Isn't it literally the same?

So you know and admit that people trade constantly and you have an official ladder on your website for 1v1/3v3 etc, isn't it quite simple to just look at the top of the so called ladder and check manually those names/people who are top rank but they barely play? Isn't it obvious that they trade, can''t you check them manually in-game and ban them since trading is against the rules?

Its specific people anyway who abuse this to the extreme, 10,20,30 people at best. Easily detectable since they camp that Arena Door for hours until they matchfix.

So you're not interested in the other contet on the arena, we get it. However, how do you want us to just ban the players? Only because they are not active in the other activities? 

7 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

Sieges have been actually active the past few days before any of those changes. Those changes have nothing to do with Siege to begin with, people who traded on Arenas will trade on Siege too its not rocket science.

Actually its gonna make it worse, people to maximize their GP gains will trade as much as possible now since their sources/income of GP is going to be limited now.

The siege situation is the way it is based on the in-game politics and the fact that you reward the "losing" faction with a PvP buff which is equal if not more than all Accs +5.

There is a reason why Elyos get Artifacts in Abyss often and not use them, specific Legion gets them so other Elyos won't have the ability to use them and actually get a fort so Elyos eventually get the 10% PvP buff and Asmos won't.

The changes are not in the game yet, by the way. And why do you draw such conclusions? People will have to participate in sieges if they want ranks. 

And it is way easier to get caught for trading in siege than in the arena, don't you think? A buch of people was already banned for trading in sieges, and the others who do it will have the same fate. 

11 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

Also whats the plan, you announced that you will reset now but there should be schedule, you will reset anytime you feel like (every 3 years) or actually following a schedule e.g. every 6 months. 

We didn't say anything about doing it by schedule. The announcement is about upcoming changes, and yes, we didn' announce the date on purpose. We don't want players to feel frustrated and stop doing anything in the game just because they know about the reset. 

[Phoenix 8]

34 minutes ago, Ellowain said:

Someone on discord suggested cera for arena. I think that's a great idea. 

What use is your new 2* if you can't afford any gear? 

In theory its good i guess especially for the faction which does not have MKK and the income of Ceranium is limited, but in practice people will trade non-stop again for them so whats the point if trading is not fixed (queue or get a pop -> consume ticket automatically) and there is no a in-game GM to bother and do some surveillance?

Unless we are fine with trading which essentially is cheating.

[Phoenix 8]

1 hour ago, CowBell said:

I understand, but I need to be aware how fast this will be done. In total right now I have almost 40 tickets, so thats not so fast thing to burn through 

[akolein3 10]

i just gonna think that removing GP from arena´s isnt the way to go and actually is 2 steps back and one forth. so yeah. it is pretty much killing many ppl that work and cant go to siege due to that, so they cant hold their ranks -> getting demotivated -> leaving the server. @TheAlmighty

[jamydaz 6]

1 hour ago, TheAlmighty said:

Another change regarding the Glory Points: we are completely removing them from the rewards for the Arenas of Chaos, Discipline, Harmony and Glory. The decision was based after analysing the situation and continuous complaints from the players about unfair abuse of the game mechanics when entering the arenas.

 

This is absolutely just appalling straight up. You do realise the entirety purpose of the arenas are for glory points, which was the exact same thing in retail. Arenas providing glory points also gives the players who are from different time zones (across the other side of the world), people who work shift work even in this current timezone the opporunity to be able to somewhat stay competitive in being able to rank up.

 

Removing this, the only way to rank up is through EOB, Kamar, IWW, IS, EB and sieges. You also do realise, a majority of the population has to pug (quick entry) these instances because no one will take or accept someone into a premade of any sort whether it's EOB, Kamar or IWW. They're forced to quick entry, and end up losing for 10 gp. People in these different time zones or people who work late, that's not enough to be able to maintain any sort of rank. This server has like a mean girl clique, and if you're not apart of it you cant join into those instances to gain rank. The new players, players who don't socialise or interact with the majority of the population whether it's language barriers, or just don't vibe. So it's already hard enough for these people to even gain gp to begin with, simply because of that. 10 gp for every loss which a majority of people who do quick group because they cant get into a premade.

 

But back onto the subject about removing gp from arenas, I understand that you want people to be able to interact in sieges and whatnot more to be able to gain gp and thigns like that. But arena gp is a core fundamantal of aion, has it has been for a very long time. You do realise, to mimise the risk of people abusing, or dodging, you could just do what other private servers have done.  if you don't enter the arena, the ticket is consumed, easy done. Problem fixed. Either enter, face your opponent, or dodge the queue or don't enter and lose your ticket and your gp from that, that way it is also much easier to monitor those people who would continue to queue dodge even with losing their ticket for their other account to win and get the gp, and just easy ban them.

 

On the topic of sieges as a main contribution to gp, how are you promoting diversity and inclusivity to those people from different paths of life, from different parts of the world where they can't even rank up because the main source of their gp is the arenas, do you expect those people to just wake up at 3-5am just to attend a siege for 1 hour? You realise that is extremely unhealthy, because I know there are quite a few people on this server who are from different parts of the world, whether it's the United States, South America, Australia, Canada. How do you address these people on your server? Who would like to rank up and gain gp? Because they like this server, they like this population, they like being able to do everything that retail had offered them, by simply doing those EOB, Kamar, IWW, IS, EB and not to forget ARENAS. Sure, they'd attend sieges every now and then, but not every single one at 5am. I feel like there are a lot of ways to fix the issues of queue dodging in arenas, and the problems with gp in it. I feel like you're just choosing the most easiest way, the least hassle and least stressful way. Rather than just being able to tackle to problem head on, by consuming the arena ticket and monitoring the people who do go into arenas alone for a quick simple fix. Similiar to the way you've caught siege traders. 

 

2 hours ago, TheAlmighty said:

Everyone has a chance to become the new legend of EuroAion!

Please explain to me how these people from these different parts of the world, can feel a sense of inclusivity and feeling like their diversity matters, because from the sounds of this.

To put it blatantly, from the sounds of this. You just don't care about those players, and you don't care about them enjoying the game of being able to rank up. Because that's the point of gp in Aion, there's a wide range of ways to gain gp, ranging from the instances, to the sieges, to the pvp instances, to arenas. Which I believe, the purpose of that is to accommodate for people to be able to earn gp in a way that is able to fit into their schedule, into their timezone and into their way of playing aion.

[Sentry 29]

Those of us who work late don't have access to maintain/get the rank we want (in my case, just Officer 2) because you took away the arenas, which were 80% of my daily AP. Those of us who cannot go to Kamars, Yogurmans (in the morning it is very tight on time) and sieges (at night the same) we will not be able to get AP so thanks for forcing me to leave the game, because without access to the PVP set you do not have sense to keep playing. I hope that in the future you will reconsider this, because I am convinced that many will find themselves in a situation similar to mine.

Greetings.

[akolein3 10]

19 minutes ago, Sentry said:

Those of us who work late don't have access to maintain/get the rank we want (in my case, just Officer 2) because you took away the arenas, which were 80% of my daily AP. Those of us who cannot go to Kamars, Yogurmans (in the morning it is very tight on time) and sieges (at night the same) we will not be able to get AP so thanks for forcing me to leave the game, because without access to the PVP set you do not have sense to keep playing. I hope that in the future you will reconsider this, because I am convinced that many will find themselves in a situation similar to mine.

Greetings.

Perfectly said, i will most likely just quit and many others too, because i cant keep my gear or my rank so no reason for me to go arenas anymore or even play the game

[EndOfTime 11]

instead of doing GPx3 in arena to boost siege presence, they reset GP to scare away active people. The increase in GP in siege would have had the effect of giving the most present a fair chance.

remove GP arenas etc, will have the effect of seeing even more AP trade in siege, and EOB kamar snipe & dodge

 

 

What about offering rewards to streamers, and ranking of the month so as not to reward the top players...?

 

Reset GP + unstable server = best idea to see the population decrease

Edited July 29, 2022 by EndOfTime

[Phoenix 8]

23 minutes ago, TheAlmighty said:

That's what we are doing: soft reset. People keep the ranks.

Culling ~90% of the GP for high ranks is not soft reset in any scenario, for example a high 5 star asmo has 99.762 GP and with your "soft" reset he will drop to 5.210, this is a 94% reduction in his GP and he will be equalized with the newcomer 5-star who has right now 59.188 GP.

This not a soft reset no matter how you brand it, 5-star needs 5.210 GP and you can farm ~1k GP per day without arenas. "Not losing your rank" means nothing when the minimum GP for the rank is very low and close to not having GP at all, this is 90% hard reset.

Cut GP to half. People who have 300k GP should go back to 150k, People who have 100k GP should go back to 50k. This would be a real soft reset. However by itself it would nto suffice because it doesn't solve the core issue, inflation

The reason why people have so much GP to begin with is because at low ranks they lose like 23 GP per day and farm 1k. Later on they lose like 54 and they still make 1k. Your "soft" reset is not going to change this in any manner and more resets will be needed.

34 minutes ago, TheAlmighty said:

GP loss already IS doubled. ANd the arena GP are removed. It is mentioned in the topic, so yes, metioning them is not appropriate.

You did not understand the content of the post. You doubled the GP decay linearly based on Ranks not based on GP income per day which is not effective, hence why you reached the point that a Gov has 300k GP and you have to reset because none can contest him. A 5-star right now losses ~200 GP per day which is good to not cause inflation, he has to win EOB/Kamar (200GP) to make up for his daily lose and then perform well in Siege to make up to +900GP.

A 1-star or 2-star loses 10 to 20 GP per day which is nothing compared to the daily income which he can achieve hence why there is inflation and why new players can't easily contest the ladder. You can make up to 1k per day and they just lose 10, just by farming 1 week they can tank the ladder FOR MONTHS because of the very slow decay. Just by logging in and doing AFK EOBs/Kamars is enough to sustain it.

Arena GP contributed to the inflation but not so much, it was (if you won and have Value Boost Pack) ~120GP. Katalam/Danaria Siege gives up to 900GP and Abyss up to 600GP

Increase the decay for 1-star to 50GP, 2-star 75GP, 3-star 100GP, 4 star 175GP and automatically in a month half of the ladder will be cleansed from inactive/alts/traders and newcomers will actually stand a chance.

44 minutes ago, TheAlmighty said:

So you're not interested in the other contet on the arena, we get it. However, how do you want us to just ban the players? Only because they are not active in the other activities? 

The players are interested in content because they get rewarded for it, if they are not rewarded they will not attend to it, none would wanted to be permafeared to a narrow bridge by a SM or kited by a gunner on the Flying Lava map if there was no reward. Also none wants to farm Udas non-stop the whole day, they just do it for the rewards of your Event.

If it wasn't for the rewards people would farm Quests in Pernon and Oriel.

Of course those players should be punished by an in-game Game Master who are consistently trading and caught in the act. They are not just cheating against the other people in the ladder who are trying to grind fair but also they are grinding to reach Top 3 in the Arena ladder so they can get the rewards you give them every single month which are quite plentyful.

If they are not active in other activities maybe they should not be high ranked to begin with? Isn't this the whole point of Glory Points, get rewarded for being active? Are we going to reward the non-active people and the cheaters in Arena just because of what?

 

50 minutes ago, TheAlmighty said:

The changes are not in the game yet, by the way. And why do you draw such conclusions? People will have to participate in sieges if they want ranks. 

And it is way easier to get caught for trading in siege than in the arena, don't you think? A buch of people was already banned for trading in sieges, and the others who do it will have the same fate. 

I am aware that the changes are not in-game yet and this is an announcement, i draw the conclusions because its basic maths.

People trade to increase their rank -> You reduce the places they can farm to increase their rank -> They will trade even more in the other areas (Sieges, Kamar EOB)

Are they going to stop? Obviously not since they are not punished or afraid to begin with. They will just move their "business"

Actually no, i don't think that it is easier to be caught in Siege than in Arena. In Arena if someone passes for 30mins in the row just to match with a random Rank1 Daevanation Gear it is obvious that he was aiming to trade with his alt. You can prove it. How can you prove if X Ranger traded with Y Assassin because he used Eye and saw him? The ranger will just say, hey i just keep using Eye and trying to find people in Hide.

There are traders Assassins who just suicide in a group for people, are you gonna punish all the people who killed the Assassin and the people who were in an ally and kill the Assassin/got AP for it? Its harder to prove since Siege is an open world zerg chaos, unlike Arena.

1 hour ago, TheAlmighty said:

A buch of people was already banned for trading in sieges, and the others who do it will have the same fate. 

I do remember a friend of mine who was temp banned recently because someone from his group killed a guy who you deemed trader, he got AP because he was close - didn't even hit him - and you banned him. He was actually sitting AFK in the fort because siege was boring and it had no Elyos past the first 15 minutes.

Throwing random bans left and right does not mean that you are working on the issue and it actually proves my point. I have more examples of random bans. If those worked to begin with tons of random no-names would not be star officers/generals (since you need a high income to sustain it) and you would not need to reset the ladder.

2 hours ago, TheAlmighty said:

We didn't say anything about doing it by schedule. The announcement is about upcoming changes, and yes, we didn' announce the date on purpose. We don't want players to feel frustrated and stop doing anything in the game just because they know about the reset. 

But this is the definition of creating insecurity, like when a depositor does not trust the banking system with his deposits and he is afraid that he might lose them one random day. Why would people grind for the ladder if they don't know when its gonna reset and if it does ever again and see their grinding evaporate?

If there was a announced schedule like in every single modern competitive game out there (League of Legends, Apex) that in every X/Y month we will have X/Y form of reset it would be professional and it would make sense.

Now why would people grind GP since in a week or two you are planning to reset it? 90k GP or 50k GP it doesn't matter, soon its going back to 5k. Why would the 50k GP guy farm since the reset is gonna be linear?

You are doing the correct thing (a reset which was needed for like a year now) in the worst possible way possible.

[Phoenix 8]

18 minutes ago, EndOfTime said:

instead of doing GPx3 in arena to boost siege presence, they reset GP to scare away active people. The increase in GP in siege would have had the effect of giving the most present a fair chance.

remove GP arenas etc, will have the effect of seeing even more AP trade in siege, and EOB kamar snipe & dodge

 

 

What about offering rewards to streamers, and ranking of the month so as not to reward the top players...?

 

Reset GP + unstable server = best idea to see the population decrease

This change they are planning is probably gonna damage the server more than the DDOSer would ever hope to achieve these past few weeks, its insane.

1 hour ago, jamydaz said:

This is absolutely just appalling straight up. You do realise the entirety purpose of the arenas are for glory points, which was the exact same thing in retail. Arenas providing glory points also gives the players who are from different time zones (across the other side of the world), people who work shift work even in this current timezone the opporunity to be able to somewhat stay competitive in being able to rank up.

 

Removing this, the only way to rank up is through EOB, Kamar, IWW, IS, EB and sieges. You also do realise, a majority of the population has to pug (quick entry) these instances because no one will take or accept someone into a premade of any sort whether it's EOB, Kamar or IWW. They're forced to quick entry, and end up losing for 10 gp. People in these different time zones or people who work late, that's not enough to be able to maintain any sort of rank. This server has like a mean girl clique, and if you're not apart of it you cant join into those instances to gain rank. The new players, players who don't socialise or interact with the majority of the population whether it's language barriers, or just don't vibe. So it's already hard enough for these people to even gain gp to begin with, simply because of that. 10 gp for every loss which a majority of people who do quick group because they cant get into a premade.

 

But back onto the subject about removing gp from arenas, I understand that you want people to be able to interact in sieges and whatnot more to be able to gain gp and thigns like that. But arena gp is a core fundamantal of aion, has it has been for a very long time. You do realise, to mimise the risk of people abusing, or dodging, you could just do what other private servers have done.  if you don't enter the arena, the ticket is consumed, easy done. Problem fixed. Either enter, face your opponent, or dodge the queue or don't enter and lose your ticket and your gp from that, that way it is also much easier to monitor those people who would continue to queue dodge even with losing their ticket for their other account to win and get the gp, and just easy ban them.

 

On the topic of sieges as a main contribution to gp, how are you promoting diversity and inclusivity to those people from different paths of life, from different parts of the world where they can't even rank up because the main source of their gp is the arenas, do you expect those people to just wake up at 3-5am just to attend a siege for 1 hour? You realise that is extremely unhealthy, because I know there are quite a few people on this server who are from different parts of the world, whether it's the United States, South America, Australia, Canada. How do you address these people on your server? Who would like to rank up and gain gp? Because they like this server, they like this population, they like being able to do everything that retail had offered them, by simply doing those EOB, Kamar, IWW, IS, EB and not to forget ARENAS. Sure, they'd attend sieges every now and then, but not every single one at 5am. I feel like there are a lot of ways to fix the issues of queue dodging in arenas, and the problems with gp in it. I feel like you're just choosing the most easiest way, the least hassle and least stressful way. Rather than just being able to tackle to problem head on, by consuming the arena ticket and monitoring the people who do go into arenas alone for a quick simple fix. Similiar to the way you've caught siege traders. 

 

Please explain to me how these people from these different parts of the world, can feel a sense of inclusivity and feeling like their diversity matters, because from the sounds of this.

To put it blatantly, from the sounds of this. You just don't care about those players, and you don't care about them enjoying the game of being able to rank up. Because that's the point of gp in Aion, there's a wide range of ways to gain gp, ranging from the instances, to the sieges, to the pvp instances, to arenas. Which I believe, the purpose of that is to accommodate for people to be able to earn gp in a way that is able to fit into their schedule, into their timezone and into their way of playing aion.

Agreed, its a thing which i forgot to include in my OP since i have no big issue with the timezone but you are right, EuroAion is played by lots of people around the globe not just from EU.

Arenas are problematic for sure, but you don't cut off your arm because it hurts, you try to patch it up and heal it. Queue or get an Entry -> Consume ticket. That simple. Almost all the trading is gonna be fixed since most traders don't get matched with their alts from the first try, hence why they spend hours dodging until they get matchfixing done properly.

 

Edit: Also i find it quite funny this thread is not a discussion thread but more like of an announcement of what is going to happen, they are not asking about our opinion or making a poll so people can vote somehow. Quite ironic if you think of it when on the original post you read stuff like

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This is not baseless. We have received numerous offers regarding the reset pf the rating on a regular basis.

 

Edited July 29, 2022 by Phoenix

[TheAlmighty 1,114]

I see that a lot of people here just don't know the story. 

First of all, we've been trying to "fix" the arenas as you call it for quite a lot of time, trying to implement all those suggestions that you posted here just today. None of those are possible on our server. We have said it many times before, it is not just "we don't want to fix them".

And as the issue stays, we keep receiving the complaints.

The other question about the reset itself. Yes, it is soft - we do not take anyone's rank. Everyone stays with their rank and can work on saving it. Plus it opens the doors for the people who have just joined the server and wills to participate in the activities as officers. Please, don't only think about old players. For now many people are forced to stay in lower ranks and get lower gear, or just quit the server. And they are potential siege participants.

We've done this reset before and saw good results. All has been done the same way, apart from removing GP from the arenas.

[Sha 0]

Терять очки славы каждый день - основная проблема, потому что 1-й офицер каждый день теряет 10 очков славы, а 4-й офицер теряет 98. Воин 1-го ранга догонит 4-го офицера за 1 неделю. И на данном этапе это основная проблема.

Then it's better to reset the glory points completely to everyone, including ranks

 

 

Edited July 29, 2022 by Sha

[EndOfTime 11]

1 hour ago, TheAlmighty said:

I see that a lot of people here just don't know the story. 

First of all, we've been trying to "fix" the arenas as you call it for quite a lot of time, trying to implement all those suggestions that you posted here just today. None of those are possible on our server. We have said it many times before, it is not just "we don't want to fix them".

And as the issue stays, we keep receiving the complaints.

The other question about the reset itself. Yes, it is soft - we do not take anyone's rank. Everyone stays with their rank and can work on saving it. Plus it opens the doors for the people who have just joined the server and wills to participate in the activities as officers. Please, don't only think about old players. For now many people are forced to stay in lower ranks and get lower gear, or just quit the server. And they are potential siege participants.

We've done this reset before and saw good results. All has been done the same way, apart from removing GP from the arenas.

You think of new players, yes it's a fact, they bring you more money than the old ones who only need very little in the shop.

I think it's great not to even take the time to do a survey.

>>>            WHY YOU DONT RESET TEAM RANKING TOO????!              <<<

 

Can't get this server to work for more than 2 days without crash or dc. Start with this point before you want to revolutionize the game... 

 

 

This post is very intelligent, announcing that the GPs are no longer to be rushed because they will be reset without giving a date. Suffice to say that the next few days the players will have no real interest in siege, kamar etc.

[medya 8]

They dont think about working people who can do just arenas and try keep 2 star .They also forgot working people give money to server so yes remove gp from arenas but keep for all pve like Bastion or Hyperion ;D Ddos kiling slow server this will kill server complete well good job, maybe its plan open fresh server later