Friday with Means - October 28th, 2011 - Happy Halloween!
After a quick downtime today to restore Lya's armor to outdoor pvp area Uncle Pumpkinheads Halloween seems to be back on track.
As I've been busy this week working with the team fixing things and planning our next little projects I'm sorry I have not prioritized responding to inquiries on the forums.
Bounties and Sector 10:
Yes bounties were removed on purpose...mostly. It was our intention to remove bounties from Sector 10 along with some larger changes we are making in the next update (team and single player instances for spawning the boss at the beginning of the playfield) but the data snuck in on us. Bounties were originally loot from Sector 13, 28 and 35 that dropped from bosses. As these were raid bosses (or at least required an entire team of skilled players to complete) it was not an overwhelming amount of credits to be adding directly to the economy. We tried adding these items to Sector 10 as a way for leveling players to have an opportunity to gain some quick credits on the way up..unfortunately this is not the way the bounties were being obtained or being used. Specialized characters were being made to directly farm these items in this playfield to obtain credits for the use of high level players as the credits that could be obtained directly and dependably within this playfield exceeded that of any other opportunity in game. Ironically the credits created by this system made the inflation that new players were faced with worse rather than better. The behaviour of twinks in this playfield, training new players, regularly harassing and out-damaging them to discourage them from participating in this playfield removed and true benefit these items might have brought to the intended group. Adding appropriate credit rewards and gear to non-repeatable missions on the leveling path to 220 is the correct way to proceed with this issue and it is how we intend to proceed with the problem in the near future. We want people to be able to obtain what they need to be able to contribute to their groups...but injecting billions of new credits into the economy was not helping this issue and had to stop.
The Gauntlet (New Pande instance):
There are some problems with this instance and we have been working this week to correct them. There should be an update coming out next week to fix the vast majority of the details that you all have been kind enough to point out to us.
Halloween:
Just going to put this link here to remind people of the Halloween Party this weekend and some of the content they might not have found yet!
http://www.anarchy-online.com/wsp/an...&table=CONTENT
See you all at the party!
