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And then we would have a ton of people complaining that since they couldn't get anything, they stopped farming for meloons and thus now they can't get anything because they lack those. They defo need to stop doing ANY open world event int he future that give exclusive things to just a few that either were faster or lucky to be in a specific post etc. All open world events that require to compete with others fail miserably to act like events.

Yes my comment was directed to thesecretcowlevel for quoting that old post about a new player that didn't know how to progress. The game also allows for drops to fall when you kill mobs... someone made a 3rd party to automatically farm mobs too, imagine if this caused a bug and someone quoted you for suggesting to farm mobs to progress. Playing the game by the rules can never be wrong, because someone made a 3rd party to ease that part for other people who want to cheat. The whole game is cheatable and playable by hacks and cheats and scripts.

That is absolutely true but they wouldn't dare to delete snowballs that people paid for, because nobody would pay them a dime.

I didn't suggest anything against the rules there and that was part of a big conversation of the whole thread. If you see where this was a reply was to someone who was asking how to progress and that was a reply to someone saying that you have to pay to win. Making money ingame is impossible in any other way. I also told them I used alts for solvents because it was impossible to get solvents on your main at the amounts needed. Making an account is not against the rules and doing luna afk is also not against them either. What is against the rules is using 3rd party programs which enable people to run a ton of accounts. --> If luna causes the bug it is caused by people that have hundreds or thousands of accounts, not people who have 2~5 accounts for their needs. Not in a game with just 200 active people.

You cannot sell snowballs after the event ends, everything gets deleted except those purchased by BCM.

We might get it next year with a better way to buy things.

You have a good point here, if the "amount of accounts" logging in is causing the problem then the server should be marked as "full" while we also know the server load is about 30% for KT server and almost half for DN, also when Aion was still alive we should be getting a bug every day if the amount of accounts logging caused this issue. If luna instance itself causes any problem to this then it must be a mechanic inside luna instance itself in addition to the amount of people doing it (thus KT getting bugged while DN not). I am extremely curious to see what happens in two weeks from now when the week of no luna ends we we see if the server bugged or not.

Will that be deleted as well? They can turn 10 of them into 1 event coin, I'd start faming meloons if this was the case.

Your server is simply less populated and thus it never reaches the memory overflow, did you just pretended your side doesn't have bots because you never got the bug? If luna is what causes the problem that is because KT server has more people and thus more alts accounts and bots. Having less luna botters doesn't make your server legit in any way. The actual benefit for the KT bug was DN players that had a fully functional server and cashed double entries while KT was bugged for half a day or more. I hope they find the reason KT server bugs and fix it. I know DN people will find a way to accuse KT players for not being able to get double entries for no reason after the fix.

This is exactly what I have been saying for so long, DN never got it because they never had too many players doing things to create the overflow. We got the bug earlier when we had more people doing things, lately we started getting the problem on Monday or even Tuesday since there is not much to do now and I see we usually have less and less people active. Even popping animal farm takes time.

On the other hand everyone else loves having their game play interrupted so yeah we are all bad. Man it is closed for us too, we also run it for luna on our mains and we also do it for extra runs on abyssal splinter and other instances. I also didn't like it when we had 2 months without Abyssal Splinter during summer, but there was little to nothing we could do about it. That is one week and after that one week I am more than sure a nerf will come.

And also lets admit losing one week of luna isn't the end of the world, we should be more concerned about the outcome of all of this and the permanent solution they will implement. So lets focus on giving suggestions on how they can battle the problem without hurting the actual players too much.

They most likely won't do that, and even if they did it would have been for 1 char per account worth of materials, not 12x. Lets hope they come with a good solution and not hurt us all over because the hordes of bots doing it.

Better than nothing to be honest, but we will use it all and make sure we get the rewards they give as well.

They can make all of those rewards account bound then. Case solved.

The thing is luna itself will have to be brought back since it is the only way we make luna currency to retune and re-enter instances. They just have to do something about the massive botters doing it. If they remove the kinah recipe it will be useless to kinah farmers but they will also damage everyone else too. They have to be careful on how to handle this.

I know the difference ping does in dps and I am a sorcerer which I am not as affected by it as other classes, when I played with 250 ping I could barely finish Crucible Spire Middle. When my ping went to down 170 with RTL, I could finish it with about 3 minutes left. At some point my ping was close to 90~110 when they changed locations and I managed to finish it with about 6,5 minutes left. And I did this without having the new accessories (I play with cruel demahas) and I no ticket to go straight to floor 4. This ping simply reminded me of how awful my game play will always be, people finish CS with 10~13 minutes because their ping is like 10~20ms. If they have never sold Aion EU to GF I would have never quit that and I would be playing with 10ms like I used to. Aion is getting worse and worse in every possible aspect to me and these late patches do not help at all.

I am used to playing with 200+ ping since I am from Europe and nothing can lower my ping. At some point in the new server location Iwent as low as 120~130 which was super good for me, but at other points my ping is close to 600. It looks like a hit or miss with their ISP now.

The best thing they can do is give us the option to change the theme if possible. I would be glad to return to the old colour combination. It is just the colours that are awful and make my eyes hurt.

I do not know the amount of points each stage gives in each pass, but I think 1 vs 3 is a lose for that 1 guy but a margin which I am not sure how much it is. The point system is identical to the previous Daeva Dash we had so maybe @TheSecretCowLeve-KT can mine the data and throw some light here. ...but if one person manages to finish 1st when the others are 3 and can use skills on that guy while he can only rely on not failing a single spot then he deserves it. It is a way-point system and it is what it is. I think it is pretty clever the way they made it. Yes what it does is it reverses the colours, kinda like a negative, also images do not show good unless you click on them and they open in a new window that is not affected by the addon (make sure only aiononline.com is in the list of working sites for the addon), also notice how the multi-quote button is gone when the mode is on. You can turn the effect off temporarily and then use the multi-quote button and put the addon on again.

I had the same issue and I stopped entering the forums for like a week after that change until I made a thread asking if it is possible to change that awful colour combination, someone told me about addons so I tried to change the background colours but in mozilla nothing worked, so I now use chrome exclusively for aiononline forums and that addon changes the background to a creme colour with black text because so far it is the only addon that worked. This is how I see your post.

You get points by passing through the different stages, the first person to pass a point get far more points than the second or the third etc. So the person who passes from the way points first has a big advantage all he needs is his teammate to do some points and they might win. After all this also enables the team play some times people make sure their first one stays in front by using their skills on the guys behind them. I also won a match where the enemies were 3 and we were only 2, but I finished first, one elyos finished 2nd and my friend finished 3rd, so we got plenty of points.

Yeah i found that a few moments after i posted this. I couldn't find the npc which is where the pumpkin npc was.

The timer ends in 10 minutes, it might end sooner only if everyone finishes, if people are AFK it will end by the time. I also assume if nobody gets points they both get the losing rewards (this is how it used to be)

Don't worry, most of the time you will face afk enemies.