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They've always been scrooges. "Event" to them means "pay to win". The many times recycled dino event was the only thing that gave anything and you had to fight others for the drops. The only thing they do is double XP, double AP, and sometimes double drops. There's a gold drop event right now, for whatever that's worth.

Don't do this. Literally just click the button repeatedly until it works. -1 means try again. 3325 means you were logged into the launcher for too long. Log out and log in again.

Error -1 means the login server is busy, just try again. There is also a different error, like 3560 or something, which means to log out of the launcher and log back in before clicking start.

We repeatedly tell them that we're struggling for medals, manastones, and godstones. Instead, they repeatedly give us more AP, making the problem even worse. Thanks for the double AP and crowns?

They're really just going to pretend the fort reset thing never happened. lol I'm not sure why they're silent about that problem but said something about the event npc and tickets. They're super weird.

Squash the undesirables, comrade.

It's in the thread: Although I'm not sure how people don't understand unless they literally only log in to do Dredge, Tiak, and Udas. All other content is affected.

Nobody is complaining about recapping the forts. They're complaining about losing medals, losing access to instances, and the ongoing mismanagement of the game. Have you never done the daily medal quests? If you lose a ground fort, you lose two medals per day until the siege rotates back to that fort. If you lose a ground fort in the opposite faction's land, then you lose four medals per day and you can't get it back until Sunday or after already capping your home fort. Every time ground forts reset, nobody can do besh for 1-2 days and everyone loses medals. It can take days or even weeks to retake an abyss fort. Some people lost their abyssal splinter weekly. You can capture a fort again but it won't bring back the rewards that were lost. Considering that forts never reset, are you really arguing that it's not a bug? But the real problem is how the 150% AP Siel's Aura is destroying the market for medals, manastones, and enchants; and yeah, the abyss schedule is terrible. These make everything high stakes.

Remember when nobody could cap a fort for like three months because the HP was too high? Or the multiple events with the dino nobody could kill. Or when they had an event that gave flight time (lol?) but the NPC was broken. I think they messed up literally every event in the first year of classic and broke forts for more than a quarter of the year. Not much has improved since then.

Can't do abyssal splinter or upper fort instances without abyss forts. Can't do daily medal quests without ground forts. Silentera is closed without ground forts, so can't do Besh or ing/gelk pvp.

It's probably because of transforms. If the people who could transform could change at any moment, then it would be harder to program and people would probably exploit it.

If people are going to buy accounts, ap, and kinah, then the logical conclusion is just to bot and hack. I'm surprised nobody notices all the hacking.

Europeans: "change siege times for us, change dredge times for us, change everything for us". Also Europeans: "we're leaving the moment GF has classic".

You can't be against pay to win and for bots. They're the same thing. Either the bot owner gets a huge advantage or they RMT the kinah. We needed GM policing and a drop increase at launch. The genie is already out of the bottle unless they add new gear that makes everything we have obsolete.

Terrible. The game already has pay to win, bots, no GMs, an awful gamified daily pass, cartoons, and all the mistakes of retail. Having learned nothing, they're going to start adding classes.

I knew what it would be the moment I saw the candies and I knew why everyone left at launch. What I'm shocked about is how the few remaining people actually ask for more bots and more pay to win. Also shocked that this game doesn't have a single GM. But the latest thing that's shocking is they just had a sort of public apology, in which they increased drop rates and decreased the price of Siel's Aura and Daeva Pass. Then they add L110s for $50. That makes no sense. I'm trying to understand the purpose of classic. It looks like they're adding a new class now and it seems they're thinking of ways to introduce new gear or raise the level cap. Basically they're making retail Aion again. I'm not sure what is even classic about classic.

It's by design. Like all things in Aion, NCSoft in their wisdom made it a competition where only the best players get more, with a limited number of rewards. Helping others means forfeiting 30k-100k AP and 12m in medals. Yikes. I think at some point in retail they changed how the rewards work. The result was everyone brought 6+ AFKers to the siege instead. I don't know if they ever got it right.

There is a simple solution to drop rates: increase drop rates and have low-level items drop at high levels. It's ridiculous that anyone would think bots are a good thing. If someone said this to anyone playing another MMO, they would laugh at the thought and think it's crazy, yet it's a totally normalized opinion here. Likewise, I've seen for months people asking to put "solutions" in the cash shop instead of just making items available. The only "solution" people on the forums ever come up with is more bots and more pay to win. The state of this game's community is sad and deteriorated into this almost immediately after every sensible person left at launch.

We keep asking for manastones. Instead, they give us AP. Now we all have multiple sets of gear with no manastones. Additionally, medal prices are up 10x. We keep asking for more low-level drops like stigmas. Instead, they give us more XP. Leveling twice as fast means half the drops. They can't just double or triple a resource in the economy without screwing it up. The cash shop should be for "catching up" items, not best in slot items. Giving out untradable DP gear and 40e makes sense. Giving out L110s doesn't. Doing it for $50 is messed up. Remember all those people defending the candies on day one, while everyone else quit? This is why everyone left classic and this is also why everyone left retail. People see the new Siel's Aura and Daeva Pass, along with their "apology" letter, and many want to come back... then they pull this stunt only a few weeks later. The worst part is they never talk to us. They just send dumb surveys with typos about topics we don't even care about. No GMs, no forum presence, and the ticket system is all copied and pasted responses. Why is it so hard to talk to a human with this company?

Just give infinite dredge because AP is meaningless now.

There might be content besides dredge.

Crafting is great until level 30. After that, you need expert and probably can't afford it at level 30. It also sucks that you can't level crafting by crafting something useful. Instead you're grinding work orders or balic mats. It really takes the fun out of it.

What's funny is nobody would buy the firm skins for 400k. They kept saying to wait for the drop rate increase. Now they're lining up to pay 1m or even 1.5m. Literally everyone wants a master craft, both whales that will pay any price and people going broke because they're clueless about the cost. It also seems like none of the crafters did their homework on probabilities, because they're selling Master Carved at a loss and still trying to make more. I was going to craft my own but I'll probably save money to buy them instead. The whole server has gone crazy.

This is going to show you people who got the most crits in a 30 second fight, had 100% uptime on every buff imaginable, had low pings, animation hacks, etc. The sad answer is this community doesn't do theorycraft. They talked about this a lot in the first years of retail. The moment the game went pay to win, the collective IQ dropped, leaving us with nothing but button mashing wallet warriors.

Directionless playground for cosmetics. If you want cartoons, you could go back to retail or back to Club Penguin.