We need new Moderators!
We are always on the lookout for talented people to join the team. That means you! If you think you could help us organise and inform the community while entertaining everyone then apply. We need people to help out on the forum, behind the scenes with announcements, on Discord and on our other Social Media channels.
If this is something you think might be of interest to you, HERE
Comments
not show up in BOTH places ( here as well as on Discord ) at pretty much the same time?
Per the following timeline ...
1 - A teammate in my alliance notified us in Chat about the Discord announcement.
2 - Not seeing anything anywhere on this Forum about the Storm Islands pause, I went ahead
and created a discussion thread here for folks who aren't part of the Discord audience.
3 - Nearly a day later, the Storm Islands pause was officially announced here on the Forum.
The time between #1 and #3 was more than a day.
Again, why such a long delay?
And, also, why assume that everyone, or even a majority of players, are using Discord?
Is GGE planning on retiring this Forum and push everyone to move to Discord?
Inquiring minds need to know, eh?
Storm has always allowed that movement of players at the end and yes that is a little frustrating although I am caught in two minds. As much as it is nice to invite players in to share rewards I would not complain if it was BTH styled where the Alliance is fixed on the membership as at the start of the event. I am guessing that will be a difficult update since players can of course freely join a different Alliance as they wish and their Storm points move with them but maybe some food for thought for the game provider.
I was busy the morning the announcement was writing up, I posted it later that day. I would've posted it earlier if I had the time to do so.
And no, this forum is not going to get retired ;-)
If GGE introduced the ability to make a downpayment on the item i think you'd see a LOT more activity from top players. To be honest for the big players - ruby buyers and big time looters who don't buy rubies any 1800 PO item might be nice but not something you'd spend a tonne of time chasing. A lot of players would never use it.
You can buy a 2300 PO item for 10750 rubies and it takes be me maybe 2 days to loot that many rubies net after i've paid all overseers, KL pass and my average use of 8% glory tools.
But if i could loot 10m aqua and get 50 sceats i might focus on it when there are so few sources of sceats.
There is right now nothing (except silver tokens) for a top 50 (UK server player) to buy from the nomads shops, the storm shop, the blade coast shop, the shapeshifter shop and very little to buy from sams.
There is no longer any equipment worth going hard in an event for as long as you've been a strong player in the last 12 months. You can't get a 150/150/120 PvP commander or cast through events and for anything else than PvP 135/135/110 is good enough.
One reason that events matter less is that the blacksmith has made all awards interchangeable. That was great in someways, but it is also a burden for the game in my opinion. Bring back something unique that is useful in each event - or if not unique at least a lot cheaper in one event than via the blacksmith. OR, BTH and KL have quaisi-unique awards. The other events need some of their own.
My suggestion: BTH crafting material would be possible to buy ONE type each from Sams, nomads, storm, blade and the shapeshifter shops. and maybe leave fabric as the only one you can only get from BTH. Don't make it impossibly expensive but not so cheap its an attractive alternative to BTH. Increase the amount of fabric from BTH so that each material has the possibility of becoming a limiting factor for an active player.
Certainly not blaming you for having a personal life in the real world!
As someone who has been in IT for 35+ yrs, and an admin for most of those yrs, I do wonder
why they ( GGE ) make the Moderator MANUALLY create Forum posts of an important nature,
like this pause in Storm Islands, in ADDITION to what has already been posted in Discord.
Certain system notices should be associated with what severity level they are, and then, for those
above a certain severity level, they would automatically be fed to various outlets ( e.g., this Forum,
Discord, etc. ). Not even REMOTELY rocket science to make that happen, right?
To make Moderators do, what is basically known as "double entry", would have gotten
me reprimanded ( or worse ) a long time ago at the govt agency I've been working for
( and we're talking about "govt efficiency" which ain't that high of a bar to meet ).
OTOH, thanks, PXA, for all you do here to help keep us as sane as possible in a very insane
( i.e., "brave new" / "new normal" ) world!
jamman
But unfortunately it's quite limited so I have to make due with what I have. Believe me when I say this, if there was a way, I would've found it ;-)
Posting the announcements can be quite tedious at times.
Since I don't have discord, can anybody confirm that is was a GGE employee who posted the same info on the discord page?
There are 20+ moderators who have acces to that channel so the chances of there being someone online at the time are quite high. Unfortunately that's not always the case here but I try to post them as soon as possible.
what is the point of forum.
if they on ggs discord they can come on forum as well or is that to
hard for them to do.
Am still playing 8 years on ! - hi lvl 800 on new yrs eve (2017/18) !
Leading the Targaryens - PS interested in joining - PM any officer in Game :-)
taking a more relaxed role:-)
PS in top200 on uk 1 never botted or used a VPN - that's why it took 5 yrs to get to leg 800
My personal favorite is the Update Announcements link on the Home page of the Forum
It's over on the right-hand side and you scroll down a ways, and then when you click on it ...
Yer a taken to a page that sez:
Interesting how GGE can send out messages like:
so ...
why couldn't they have done that with the Storm Islands pause announcement too?