This is partly the problem though - a lot of people offering personal advice thinking they all know best. We see it all. And I know how that sounds, but I don't mean that negatively - I honestly just couldn't word that better.
A lot of the time the most vocal voices aren't the best to listen to. A lot of the stuff suggested in Discord terrifyingly misses the mark.
It's really not that we're brushing it off, just an information overload from a lot of voices that want to be heard simultaneously. Discord is NOT the best place to voice your opinion -- the forums are, by far.
Yes, our communication can be lacking but that example is pretty terrible - we didn't realise it would need to be down for so long beforehand, otherwise we would have. We kept updates rolling throughout.
I don't really know what to say here (ironically, I suppose). I could spend all day replying to people (like now) or I could get back to actually dealing with issues. I've been sick for most of the week, wasn't really able to get much more than trivial things done throughout - so I'm trying my best to make up for lost time now.
The issue is raised, an actual suggestion thread on the forums would be helpful but it's (one of many) things that are somewhere up there on the list of things to address. Changes have been trickling through to address these things. [EDIT: this was actually addressed in today's patch, even]
Good news! As of today's patch, they are indeed scheduled now!
Yes, you are right - this is something we are trying to work on. The issue generally comes down to reward distribution, to be honest.
Once we have something worked out for GMs, this should be better.
I'm not the best person to talk to about this.
Doing so provides a no risk/reward scenario anymore, so why bother? And it makes NP transferring even easier. I think there's good reasons as to why it's not been done before.
Again I'm not the best person to talk to about this, but to my understanding the original plan was to go for a month or close to it. As things are, that'll probably just be bumped up.
Take what I say with a grain of salt though.
Sorry, I've just been insanely busy since before the beta (Aesteris too, obviously). It's been non-stop. I saw your PM and mentioned it to Aesteris but I kind've forgot about it with everything going on.
Like, I don't know how it looks from your perspective but I've been literally just focused on this server virtually 24/7 for well over a month now. The only break I've taken was forced this week, being sick and all.
From my perspective there's just 9 billion things going on at all times, always working on something major while also weaving in minor things -- and *still* managing to be consistently behind, somehow.
What I can say is you can at the very least rest assured that if there's an issue, we will address it. It may not be immediate, but we *will* get there.
And we're definitely not ignoring advice. We're taking it all into consideration - just not necessarily responding to it. If it were in the forums, it'd perhaps be easier to comment on it, but Discord is just a mess (and a huge time sink).
I hope this serves as something of a sufficient response.
PS: As far as drop rates in general go, I'm not sure but there may or may not be some underlying issue affecting rates in general (difficult to say with RNG -- from an outset it looks fine, but it does seem odd at times).
Once we identify that (if it even exists), things can go back to normal a bit. Still need to more thoroughly investigate that.
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